Tag: drawing
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Mary Doodle Turns Scribbles Into Fantabulous Works of Art! [VIDEO]
According to Mary Doodle‘s tumblr page, she “draws stuff and things”. We’d respectfully disagree with that Mary. Rather, Mary creates the most amazing artworks starting from just a squiggle. In this video, Mary collaborates with Dante the Scribbler to create a playfully brilliant work titled “Sunday in the Park”. To see Mary’s other videos, click…
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Indonesian Artist Creates Sublime Watercolor Paintings That Will Melt Your Heart!
Reza Luqman, aka Jongkie on Instagram, is an Indonesian artist we recently discovered through our artFido art sharing account on Instagram. He uses the very difficult medium of watercolor to create some of the most sublime paintings we have ever seen. Magic and magical. Reza’s paintings definitely put credence to the saying ‘a picture is…
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Crazy Photo Manipulations Created by Photoshop Wizard
Tons of photographers use Photoshop to insert new elements into their photographs, but not all of them can create the crazy and mind-bending images that Buenos Aires-based art director and digital artist Martin De Pasquale does. De Pasquale creates wild new impossible realities by combining multiple images or by creating new effects on Photoshop. Some…
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Stunning Examples of Animal Body Art
Many people feel an especially close connection with our animal brethren, which is probably a big part of why we find animal body art like this so appealing – these models, and the artists who paint on them, create a figurative representation of the relationship we share with all life. There are all sorts of…
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Inventor Spends 5 Years Trying to Determine if Vermeer’s Paintings Are Color Photos
It has long been suspected that some of the old masters may have relied on optical devices such as the camera lucida to help with scale and proportion in their paintings, leading to more lifelike interpretations of landscapes and portraits. Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor and computer graphics specialist, became obsessed with one such painter:…
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Jaw Dropping Mother of Pearl Shell Skull Carvings!
Born and raised in the Philippines, New Jersey-based artist Gregory Halili is deeply influenced by the vegetation and wildlife he experienced as a child. His latest series of work involves a fusion of the human form with the natural world in these amazing bas-relief shell skulls. Halili carves and then paints with oil on raw, gold-lip and…
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Performance Artist Reenacts the Painting ‘The Origin Of The World’
Following on from our previous post where a performance artist was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high street shop window as part of a hard-hitting protest against animal testing (see HERE), another performance artist has gone to great lengths to make a point. Background: if you’ve ever gazed into the beautiful void…
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Hair Stylist Creates Realistic Hair Portraits!
Hair stylist extraordinaire Rob Ferrel has taken the simple hair cut to a whole new level with amazing photo-realistic portraits. From his studio Rob the Original Barber Shop located in San Antonio, Texas, Rob has combined his passion for drawing and combined it with his professional skills as a barber with amazing results. Check out his work below and…
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Creative Tattoos That Make Clever Use Of The Body!
The rising popularity of tattoos and the easing of the taboo surrounding them means that more and more people are choosing to express themselves with creative body art ideas that are meaningful to them. Although tons of new styles are being developed by tattoo artists, we wanted to explore a specific type – tattoos that…
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Cute as a Button Ink Drawing by Maria Tiurina!
Maria Tiurina is an artist based in London, UK – working as a games artist at Mediatonic LTD. She is spending most of free time expanding her illustration, character art and graphic design portfolio. Her latest drawing is called; The Companion. It’s an A1 format ink in cardboard – a drawing that took almost half a year to complete. Also she…