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These Incredible Paintings Will Both Amaze And Confuse You. Born in 1959 in Toronto , Canada , Artist Rob Gonsales is creating a rare mix of creativity and optical illusions , from amazing transitions from bridges to clouds to caravels , you never know what to expect from his paintings . with his unique perspective and style of magic realism he produces his limited edition prints and illustrations for his own books.

These Incredible Paintings Will Both Amaze And Confuse You

Gonsales started developing an interest in drawing when he was just a child , most of his work back than was from his own imagination and as he got older his technique improved . By the age of twelve he really got into architecture and thats when he learned perspective techniques and started to create his own work of imagined buildings .

There is no surprise the artist is very much inspired by artists Dali and Tanguy and once he learned of their work he immediately started his first surrealist painting. below is a sample of his work . take 10 minutes to dive into a magical world Source: Imgur Comments Your Comments. Stumbleupon. By Johnny Webber 1. pencilkings.com — Video courses to teach you drawing, painting, and digital art. 2. ctrlpaint.com — A free learning resource dedicated to the basics of digital painting. 3. exposureguide.com — Photography news, tips, and tutorials.

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Animation Career. By Shanna Smith The term "persistence of vision" describes the optical phenomenon that makes animation possible.

Animation Career

The human eye retains an image for a split second after the source of the image disappears, so when 24 frames per second of an animated film zip through a projector, the flow of motion on the screen looks seamless. Artist Turns Real Flower Petals Into Fashion Design Illustrations. Grace Ciao, a 22-year-old student from Singapore, uses a clever and original way to draw her fashion design illustrations.

Artist Turns Real Flower Petals Into Fashion Design Illustrations

Instead of ink, watercolours, pencils, or fabric, she uses real flower petals. Not only do they serve as substitutes for lines and colours, but they also introduce their own unique textures and forms. Ciao clams that she started using flower petals by accident, when she just wanted to preserve the beauty of a dying rose that was given to her by a boy. This Artist Creates Stunning Paintings With Q-Tips And Smoke. The Top 75 Pictures of the Year for 2013.

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The Top 75 Pictures of the Year for 2013

Following on from our very successful blog “100 of the Best Street Art Images of 2013″ (see HERE), we’ve widened the net and thanks to the guys over at Sifter, we bring you the Top 75 Pictures of 2013. All credit goes to the individual photographers and their inspiring visions of our beautiful planet. Street Art, Graffiti Art & Wall Murals. Volume 24 : Great Urban Art from the World Latest collection of amazing street art, graffiti art & great urban art from the world’s best street artists.

Street Art, Graffiti Art & Wall Murals

Including some amazing wall murals and street art from artists such as C215, Dan23, Escif, David De La Mano, Banksy, Dizebi, Jeff Soto, JR, Phlegm, Kobra, Pixel Pancho, Natalia Rak, Obey, ROA, Fintan Magee and many more. You can always catch up with some more amazing street art on Mr Pilgrim ‘s great urban art & wall murals blog or alternatively get up to the minute street art posts on Mr Pilgrim’s street art page. The Most Beloved Street Art Photos of 2013-FREEYORK. Every year we look forward to seeing the photos of the most beloved street art photos discovered by Street Art Utopia.

The Most Beloved Street Art Photos of 2013-FREEYORK

This Parrot Is Not What It Looks Like – It’s Actually A Human Being. EmailEmail This parrot optical illusion, created by Italian fine art body painter Johannes Stoetter (previously here), is simply flawless!

This Parrot Is Not What It Looks Like – It’s Actually A Human Being

What looks like a parrot at first sight is actually a body-painted model. Take a look at the photos and try to figure the illusion out before scrolling down to the “behind the scenes” photos. Face Art: Incredibly Awesome Makeup Portraits by Alexander Khokhlov. Moscow based photographer and artist Alexander Khokhlov has created a wonderful art project titled “2D or not 2D”.

Face Art: Incredibly Awesome Makeup Portraits by Alexander Khokhlov

In this series, the artist creates makeup portraits which can easily confuse our vision. Pixar theory: This grand unified theory explains how Monsters Inc.’s Boo grows up to be the elderly witch from Brave. Courtesy of Pixar Back in July, Jon Negroni went down an animated wormhole with his Grand Unified Theory of Pixar, an absurdly close reading of the studio’s canon that weaves together each of its 14 feature films to create a world that stretches several thousand years into the future only to eventually loop back upon itself.

Pixar theory: This grand unified theory explains how Monsters Inc.’s Boo grows up to be the elderly witch from Brave

Negroni has condensed his original theory for Slate. (A longer version of this article originally appeared on Negroni's personal blog.) Chapter 2. Human anatomy and figure drawing. Chapter 2. A fried egg gone toast taught me something very interesting... Posted by C on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 · A fried egg gone toast taught me something very interesting... 2013 Top 100 US Schools for Animation and Game Design. Did you know.... In 2013 every movie nominated for an Oscar Award in the Best Visual Effects category had graduates from The Digital Animation & Visual Effects School (DAVE School at Universal Studios Orlando) in the credits. This year (2014), four of the five nominated films - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Iron Man 3, The Lone Ranger, and Star Trek Into Darkness- included DAVE School graduates.

Find Out How to Easily Make Your Own Necklaces. Planet of Women- Health, Fashion & Beauty Latest Woman Health News, Fashion Trends, Beauty and Wellness tips Find Out How to Easily Make Your Own Necklaces March 18, 2013 by admin 2 Comments There are really a lot of reasons to start creating your own jewelry; first, jewelry will cost you quite a lot because the elements used to create it are hard to find and so the products can be very costly, and the second, you surely want to have a unique accessory that will make you very proud.

Even thinking about creating unique jewelry may seem a little daunting, but we are guaranteeing that everyone can easily make a specific thing using only a couple of simple things that you can seek out at pretty much any craft shop. Painting Instructions, Watercolor Tips and Techniques, Design and Color. Pencil sketches that seem to stand up off the page [12 pictures] The hand. Top 10 Animation Schools in the U.S. Animation college degrees are offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Are Some Things Universally Beautiful? Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait. An American Self-Portrait. Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011.

Download the PDF of these ideas : Public Art Concepts - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011 (2mb) Design Seeds®: For All Who Love Color. #ededed #e8dcca #b08a61. Shintaro Ohata combines sculpture and canvas in his art « Odditiesity. Mario-sheet-music.jpg 500×1,441 pixels. 20 Best Creative Products You Can Actually Buy. 205826_1206443974_large.jpg 1,200×699 pixels.

Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else. Gravity-Defying Land Art by Cornelia Konrads. Watercolors by Grzegorz Wróbel. VoiceDraw. Emotions_and_facial_expression_by_cedarseed-ds1wwv.jpg (JPEG Image, 3650x3033 pixels) - Scaled (21. Drawspace.com - Learn to draw. Envisioning Disney Characters in "Real Life" on Behance.