Tag: painting
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Spectacular Photography Created With a Drill, Paint, and Centripetal Force!
“Black Hole” by Fabian Oefner is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by centripetal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking…
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Graffiti Removal Guy Comes Back to Discover Image of Himself in the Same Spot
Street artist DS recently added a couple of paste-ups to a wall in London. It didn’t take too long before a graffiti removal guy removed the paste-ups. Shortly after that, DS was back with a paste up of the graffiti removal guy removing the graffiti. Gold! Art imitates removal of art! And don’t forget, if…
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Colorful Riverbeds Drawn with Pencil by Ester Roi
California artist Ester Roi works colored pencils to create drawings of imagined riverbeds that exhibit a superb understanding of the interaction between light, color and water. Roi uses a special drawing device called the Icarus Drawing Board that allows her to effectively create warm and cool “zones” underneath a wax-based medium. According to her website “the warm zone is…
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Like a Kid in a Candy Store – Inside The Artist Studios of Dianne Gall and Jim Thalassoudis
We were lucky enough to be invited inside the artist studios of art power couple, Jim Thalassoudis and Dianne Gall in Bowden, South Australia recently. The pair originally met at the South Australian School of Art in the 1980s and have been painting together ever since. Dianne paints in the style of contemporary realism, with her works evoking the memory…
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When Art and Technology Mix – Realistic Painting Using an iPad by David Kassan!
In an age of post-abstract representational painting, Brooklyn-based artist David Jon Kassan‘s stark realism separates him from the pack. With a critical eye for anatomy, he expertly captures the subtle nuances of his subjects through the use of oil on panel, charcoal, and graphite in his life-size paintings and drawings. David recently tried his hand at…
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Anamorphic Portraits by Bernard Pras Made From an Entire Room of Objects
French artist Bernard Pras works almost entirely within the realm of assemblage and anamorposis, a visual illusion where a distorted projection—often made from paint or a collection or objects—must be viewed from a specific vantage point to reconstitute the intended image. His latest piece, a portrait of Malian actor Sotigui Kouyaté, is comprised of numerous objects including clothes, paint,…
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Melting Ceramics by Livia Marin
When dropping a ceramic plate or cup we’ve all braced for the familiar sound of impact as the object explodes into a multitude of sharp fragments on the kitchen floor. Artist Livia Marin imagines a wholly different demise for ceramic bowls, cups and tea pots in this series of work titled Nomad Patterns. Inexplicably, each piece seems to…
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Distorted Skies Made from Hundreds of Stacked Photographs by Matt Molloy
Living on the shore of Lake Ontario, just east of Toronto, photographer Matt Molloy has daily encounters with brilliant sunsets and cloudscapes that he’s been taking photographs of for over three years. One day he began experimenting with time-lapse sequences by taking hundreds of images as the sun set and the clouds moved through the sky. Molloy…
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Artist Uses a Medium Favoured by the Old Masters – Egg Tempera – to Create Stunning Paintings
We’ve been a huge fan of artist Robert Clinch‘s work for some time now, mesmerised by the glow and brilliance of detail in his beautiful paintings. Clinch works in a traditional medium favoured by the Old Masters, egg tempera, which is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of coloured pigment mixed with egg yolk. Tempera paintings are very…
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New Series of Nude Body Paintings by Emma Hack Depicting Beautiful Women
Not many young artists can say their work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. Emma Hack can. The South Australian painter is the creator of the body art featured in the video clip for Gotye and Kimbra’s worldwide hit Somebody that I Used to Know. As at the…