Tag: painting
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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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20 Of The Best Cities To See Street Art
We see a lot of street art posts on artFido, but where is the best street art actually made? Where can we see it? To answer these questions, we collected a list of some (not all!) of the best cities in the world to see street art in. On the surface, there’s only one thing…
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Beautiful Tattooed Porcelain Figures by Jessica Harrison
As part of a new body of sculptural work, artist Jessica Harrison has created a series of delicate porcelain figurines depicting idealized women in ball gowns, with one glaring difference from the collectibles found in your grandmother’s curio: each sculpture is covered neck to wrist in ornate sailor tattoos. This juxtaposition is not unfamiliar territory for Harrison…
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Injecting Paint in Bubble Wrap to Recreate Iconic Paintings
Who says bubble wrap is just for packaging or stress relief? New York-based artist Bradley Hart, known for creating amazingly realistic pixelated portraits, has expanded his bubble wrap painting series Impressions to include recreations of iconic masterpieces such as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Vincent van Gogh’s Self Portrait with Grey Felt Hat.…
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Surface to Structure: An Origami Exhibition Featuring 80 Paper Artists at Cooper Union
A huge exhibition of 80 contemporary origami artists featuring 120 paper creations is planned to take place this summer at Cooper Union in New York. Cooper Union was the site of the first origami exhibition in the United States 55 years ago. Titled Surface to Structure , the event is curated by Uyen Nguyen who is seeking funding on Indiegogo to…
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Father Makes Crazy Photo Manipulations With His Three Daughters
John Wilhelm is a 44-year-old IT Director at a Swiss university with a passion for photography and digital art. Some of his most wonderfully creative photo manipulations are of his girlfriend Judith and their three young daughters – Lou (5.5 years), Mila (2.8 years) and Yuna (6 months). John’s photos are surreal and eclectic. “I guess…
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20 Modern Remakes Of Famous Paintings
You’re probably familiar with a lot of these famous Western art masterpieces, but probably not like this! It started when booooom.com partnered with Adobe to create the Remake project, which asked art students to recreate classic paintings into something else using photography. Here’s our favourite 20 of the remakes, including a couple of extras that we found…