Models’ Faces Turned Into Stunning Optical Illusions By Creative Russian Duo. Moscow-based photographer Alexander Khokhlov and makeup artist Valeriya Kutsan have created a bewitching series of portraits that play with the natural lines of their models’ faces and twist them into strange new forms. Their newest series of stunning colored portraits, 2D Or Not 2D, is only the latest collaboration between the two artists. Khokhlov and Kutsan have also created portrait series with powerful black-and-white designs and a series parodying the popular Angry Birds game. The designs are amazing – some of them soften or break down the face’s lines, while others reinforce them or create unnaturally perfect patterns.
The idea behind their latest series was to make the faces look like 2d images. According to Khokhlov – “Valeriya used different techniques of face painting so you can see a lot of variations – from sketch and graphic arts to water-colour and oil-paintings. This is a combination of interesting make-ups, studio photography experiments and careful retouching.” Muito giro... - Alexandra Pereira. Lindo :-) - Alexandra Pereira. The Sweetest Things in My Life... Projection mapping live performance art - The Alchemy of Light by a dandypunk. Amazing Shadow Art by Kumi Yamashita. Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita creates amazing shadow art by using various seemingly ordinary items and some light. A giant steel exclamation point, lit from right angle becomes a question mark, paper sheets cast shadows that look like faces, aluminum numbers add up to create a silhouette of a woman – these are just a few examples of what can be done with shadows.
The possibilities are endless, but you probably already knew that if you had seen the works of Tim Noble & Sue Webster or Rashad Alakbarov that we posted earlier. “I sculpt shadow with light or sometimes light with shadow, but both function in essentially the same manner. I take objects and carve and place them in relation to a single light source. The complete artwork is therefore comprised of both the material (the solid objects) and the immaterial (the light or shadow).” Website: kumiyamashita.com City View Origami Untitled (Child) Chair A to Z Seated Figure Pathway Question Mark Lovers Clouds.