Tag: painting
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Artist Burns Holes In Paper With Incense Sticks To Create Amazing Art
Jihyun Park, an artist in Korea, has found a unique and quintessentially Asian approach to pointillism – he uses burning sticks of incense to burn tiny holes in huge sheets of rice paper, arranging the tiny holes into beautiful, relaxing artistic compositions. The use of incense to burn these holes isn’t merely a novelty: “the…
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Artist Brings Back Art Deco With Spectacular Paintings
If you’re like us, you love everything art deco. The rich colors, bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation. We were therefore very pleased to discover the art of Dianne Gall, an oil painter and master of the art deco period. Although she lives all the way Downunder in beautiful Adelaide, Dianne is a busy lady with an exhibition currently…
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Stunning Street Art by L7m That Blur the Line Between Realism and Abstraction
For many years, we’ve admired how Brazilian street artist L7m paints gorgeous portraits of birds. His murals are always full of color and have a palpable energy, and he’s recently brought that same intensity to the streets of Paris and Vitry in France. L7m’s newest pieces blur the line between realism and abstraction, adding in aspects of…
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Video Captures the Moment Colorblind People See Color for the First Time
It’s estimated that nearly 300 million people across the globe are affected by colorblindness. Valspar Paint, in partnership with EnChroma, is helping individuals experience color for the first time through their campaign #ColorForAll. In the touching short documentary Color for the Colorblind, Valspar Paint provides individuals with EnChroma’s colorblindness-correcting eyeglasses, letting them finally experience the joys…
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Stunning Pen Drawings Created with Thousands of Tiny Dots!
Using thousands upon thousands of tiny dots, Spider Money produces gorgeous artworks that are awe-inspiring in their detail. The Bangkok-based creative wields a mighty Micron pen and draws fancy flourishes with photo-realistic depictions of eyes, noses, and lips. It’s in these facial features that Spider Money employs her “dot-drawing technique.” She individually dabs the minuscule…
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More Incredible Miniature Paintings by Lorraine Loots
Lorraine Loots, an expert at creating tiny art “for ants,” is back with a new series of mind-bogglingly small (and beautiful) paintings of animals, space, and her favorite books. We previously highlighted her amazing miniatures HERE, as part of her ‘miniature painting every day for a year’ project. She plans to create 100 mini paintings…
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John Bramblitt Went Blind in 2001. In 2002, he Started Painting
In 2001 John Bramblitt changed his epilepsy medication. Unfortunately his body had a bad reaction to the new medicine and his epileptic seizures got so severe that the damage caused his vision to go from 20/400 (double the limit for legal blindness) to complete blindness. While John maintained light perception he was no longer able to see…
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Street Art That Masterfully Interacts With Nature!
Urbanism and nature do not always get along well, but when they do, the collaboration may create something really special and unique. Here are some great examples of this combination. What is your favorite? And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your walls, check out artFido HERE!
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Look Again: This Chameleon is Actually Two Painted Women
Johannes Stötter, an incredibly talented bodypaint artist from Italy, has created a video to show us exactly how his amazing illusory body art “unfolds,” showing us the full transition from the chameleon we think we see in his art to the two painted women that actually compose the image. It took Stötter 4 hours to…
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Interactive Art Gallery Allows Visitors to Become Part of an Illusion!
This unique gallery lets visitors do more than just admire great works of art — they get to play with it, too. At Art in Island, an interactive gallery that occupies a former bus station in the Philippines, visitors can step inside paintings and take pictures with the optical illusions. Each piece offers guests a…