Tag: painting
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Animals Drawn with Moiré Patterns
This beautiful series of animal illustrations by Milan-based designer Andrea Minini began as a design experiment to obtain complex shapes and depth starting with just a few lines. Using Adobe Illustrator, Minini created textured moiré patterns that give each illustration a surprising intensity. You can see more from this series over on Behance. And don’t forget, if you’re looking…
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Artist Photographs the Oldest Living Things in the World before They Vanish
Since 2004, Brooklyn-based contemporary artist Rachel Sussman has researched, collaborated with biologists, and braved some of the world’s harshest climates from Antarctica to the Mojave Desert in order to photograph the oldest continuously living organisms on Earth. This includes plants like Pando, the “Trembling Giant,” a colony of aspens in Utah with a massive underground root system estimated…
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Transfixing 3D Paper Patterns by Maud Vantours
Paris-based designer and artist Maud Vantours uses layer upon layer of cut paper to create hypnotizing patterns and textures that translate into set designs, fashion accessories, and editorial treatments. Vantors has explored a number of 3D paper treatments including floral patterns, spirals, and gemometric designs. You can see more of her work at Figure and over on Behance. And don’t forget, if you’re…
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Artist Puts Your Easter Egg Decorating to Shame with His Intricately Carved Goose Shells
Unless you spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours with a tiny electric drill carving intricate patterns into eggshells the last few months, you may have yet to reach your Easter egg decorating potential. One person who clearly has is artist Piotr Bockenheim who uses a reductive drilling technique to transform goose eggs into slitherting tangles of string…
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The Best Street Art Works From Around the World For 2014
Following on from our very successful post “100 of the Best Street Art Photos for 2013“, we’ve searched the world to find you the best street art works from around the world for the first quarter of 2014… Some will make you laugh, some will make you think, and some will make you ask “what…
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Loretta Kasper – It’s a Statten Island Thing
A retired professor, Loretta Kasper works from her home studio in Staten Island, New York City. After starting her artistic development painting in acrylics, and then moving on to test her skills with various other materials, she now concentrates on mixed mediums. “The person who has most influenced my present style, and in fact, who…
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The Recently Discovered Street Photography of Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier was an amazing photographer whose talents went unrecognized during her lifetime. Back in 2011, a box filled with Maier’s negatives was discovered at a local thrift auction house in Chicago. Since that time, the American street photographer has become quite the recognizable name in the history of photography. During her forty years working as…
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Artist Takes Crazy Drawing Requests and Delivers In The Most Amazing Ways!
Imgur user gabroll works for a t-shirt company, and sometimes the customers ask him to draw things on the box. The stuff he comes up with is both mind-blowingly creative and completely hilarious! See them all below. What is your favorite? “Draw a firefighter T-Rex on the box!” “On the box can you draw Obama…
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Stunning Digital Illustrations Reveal Fragmented Human Forms
London-based artist Grégoire A. Meyer creates flawless digital illustrations that evoke emotionally thoughtful reactions. He captures the essence of fleeting moments, like a splash of water or a disintegrating face, and freezes them in time in ephemeral objects that appear almost tangible. The works are distortions of the human form and create a complex relationship…
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Sprawling Nature-Inspired Mural Drawn Entirely with a Sharpie
After seven long months of work, California-based artist Sean Sullivan finished Grand Pale Maw, an expansive drawing that covered the wall of a hallway in the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) gallery. Using just a black marker, the artist started drawing with the image of a fallen oak tree in his mind, but his imagination quickly…