Francoise Nielly’s colorful portraits
Francoise Nielly is the canvas painter who creates this amazing colorful and massive portraits. The French artist paints with oils and her palette knife to portray exotic faces from black and white photos. Is very interested watch her create them in this video posted on her site.
How To Draw The Human Head
This is a personal collection of mine collected over the web, unfortunately I don’t know which are the authors of these works, so if somebody knows I’m going to be really happy to give the credits to them. Hope to enjoy it. Never stop practice. Andrew Loomis, from the Book “How to Draw the Head and Hands” 10 poses of the head
75 Exceptional Moleskine Notebook Artworks
Moleskine notebooks are a favorite among many artists, designers and writers. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and with many different kinds of paper. The elastic closure and pocket in the back of each one adds to their utility. The popularity of Moleskines among the art community ensures that there are thousands of great examples of Moleskine art out there. Flickr alone has a huge pool of Moleskine artists.
Southwest Art Magazine
By Gussie Fauntleroy Hsin-Yao Tseng | The Cranes, oil, 14 x 14. It cannot have been easy for an urban teen, born and raised in the city of Taipei, Taiwan, to find himself living in a rural Wisconsin community seemingly populated with “nothing but deer, trees, and snow,” as he remembers it now.
Maja Wrońska
I’m really enjoying the use of structure and color by Poland-based watercolor artist Maja Wrońska who has captured some lovely scenes from Paris, Venice, Prague, and elsewhere. Catch more of her work over on DeviantArt and Behance. (via my darkened eyes)
Brian Dettmer's insanely creative Book Autopsies
Certainly one of the most creative concepts I’ve seen in a long time. What a kick ass idea. Here’s more pictures and information about the artist if you’re interested. [Thanks for sharing the link, Jeff]
Beyond Drawing: Creative Colored Pencil Art & Sculpture
From a very first look at these wonderfully detailed colored pencil sculptures by Jennifer Maestre, it should come as no surprise that her artwork was initially inspired by spiny sea urchins – beautiful be dangerous to the touch. For each sculpture, Jennifer hacks apart hundreds of colored pencils, cores them perpendicular to their length and turns them into beads, essentially, which she then meticulously stitches back together and slowly shapes into solid sculptures. Though her beginnings were with creatures of the water, Jennifer quickly expanded her subject matter to cover other organic objects – from plants and flowers to house pets and more abstract animals.
3D Paintings on Panes of Glass
Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions.
High Speed Photography by Lex Augusteijn - StumbleUpon
Dutch photographer Lex Augusteijn is a recreational specializing in high-speed photography detaining the moment a bullet hits objects such as light bulbs, water-filled balloons and even drops of water. Ads by Google
Kinko White
Second only to A Tale of Two Cities, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is the second best selling novel ever written. The popularity of this amazing fairy tale and its predecessor The Hobbit, along with the screen adaptations and action figures has brought about some amazing fan art, like the paintings featured here by deviantARTist Kinko-White. Her watercolor and tea stain paintings capture some of the best characters, bringing the fantasy to life on the paper along side some memorable quotes. See more work by this Estonian self-taught artist on deviantART and Tumblr. See Also Lord of the Rings Visualized: A Timeline of the One Ring
marble magnets
I finally gave in and made marble magnets. Not surprisingly they are quite fun, smooshing the glue out to make a perfect little magnified image is very satisfying. Here, in order of appearance, are the places I referenced: paper candy instructions with pictures (this is the first place I saw this project) dogmestic with instructions and pictures photogeek pictures ugly green chair cute ladybug magnets – pictures with packaging threads at Glitter:onetwothree
With Maidens of Mystery - The artwork of Audrey Kawasaki
Audrey Kawasaki is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her characteristic works that are painted directly onto wood panels. Kawasaki studied fine art painting at the Pratt Institute in New York City, but left after two years without completing her degree. The emphasis that New York art standards put on conceptual art was at odds with her painting ideologies and was the reason for her leaving. The unique style that she renders to her artworks can be described as a fusion of eastern as well as western traditions such as Art Nouveau and Japanese Manga comics. Audrey’s paintings are portrayals of young, mesmerizing women who come across as innocent and tantalizing at once. Her use of subdued colors, misty backgrounds, and delicate embellishments creates a magical effect within her paintings.
New World Transparent Specimens
Science meets art! Japanese artist Iori Tomita transforms the scientific technique of preserving and dying organism specimens into an art form with his series, “New World Transparent Specimens”.
