The Bottled Smoke Art of Jim Dingilian. Jim Dingilian is one of those rare artists who stretch the limits of creativity with their amazing creations. He uses candle smoke to paint picture-perfect images on the inside of empty bottles. “The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace nature. The bottles add to the implied narratives of transgression. When found by the sides of roads or in the weeds near the edges of parking lots, empty liquor bottles are artifacts of consumption, delight, or dread.
As art objects, they become hourglasses of sorts, their drained interiors now inhabited by dim memories” Jim Dingilian says bout his art. Reddit Stumble. Seconds Of Beauty - 1st round compilation. The image of Paris. Cleaning up in the Louvre Among the several photographers capturing the accident at Gare Montparnasse, Henri Roger-Viollet (1869-1946), with whose photo we started the previous post, was certainly the most renowned and most refined one. Born in a distinguished Paris family, he belonged together with his elder brother Ernest Roger among the age’s most prominent and prolific inventors.
Their names were mentioned together with the Lumière and Nobel brothers, and Henri Roger – who also took up his wife’s name on his marriage – was a highly estimated astronomer as well. But photography was also among his many passions. Experimenting from the 1890s, he invented a number of procedures of trick photography, and until his death he tirelessly documented the life of Paris. Threefold self-portrait Restoration of the Notre-Dame Autumn in the garden of the Tuileries, 1945. Sand Man - The Sand Art of Peter. Unbelievably Cool - Swedish Subway System photos images stock. Ingrid Dabringer's Map Paintings: Finding Whimsy in Geography.
By Maria Popova What Manhattan’s biceps have to do with Austrian ballet, bird migrations and flamenco. As a hopeless lover of maps, creative cartography and, especially, maps as art, I was utterly enchanted by the work of mixed-media visual artist Ingrid Dabringer, who uses acrylic paint to draw — or, more precisely, find — extraordinary, playful characters and vignettes in ordinary maps.
I like to elevate the mundane. The Mundane is so saturated with meaning if we just take an extra second to dwell on it. The Mundane is saturated with symbolism.” ~ Ingrid Dabringer Manitoulin New York City Subway Bird Migration Dame Bird Migration Dude Vienna Ballet Countess Vienna Ballet Philippines Ireland and England OH! Green Toronto A Green Toronto B Flamenco: Middle America Some of Dabringer’s magnificent map paintings, most certainly on par with The Map as Art, are available on Etsy, or you can contact her directly for originals.
Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people say it’s cool. Don Hong-Oai Takes Photographs That Look Like Traditional Chinese Paintings. Using a style known as pictorialism, Chinese artist Dong Honh-Oai was able to create a series of amazing photographs that look like Chinese traditional paintings. Born in 1929, in Guangzhou, China’s Guangdong province, Dong Hong-Oai left his home country when he was just 7, after the sudden death of his parents. The youngest of 24 siblings, he was sent to live within the Chinese community of Saigon, Vietnam. There he became an apprentice at a photography studio owned by Chinese immigrants and learned the basics of photography. During this time he became particularly interested in landscape photography, which he practiced in his spare time.
At 21, after doing a series of odd jobs, he became a student at the Vietnam National Art University. Don Hong-Oai died in 2004, at the age of 75, but left behind an incredible volume of pictorialism work that is as popular today as it was when it first conquered the art world. Photos via Picasa Reddit Stumble. This magnetic typography by Dominic Le-Hair is a. Iceland in the Midnight Sun. Alexdipple: Dots 6 2011. The Chemistry of Oil Painting on Symbiartic. Artist and illustrator Glenton Mellow, who writes the Flying Trilobite blog, also co-authors a new blog for Scientific American called Symbiartic, along with scientific illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios. The tagline for Symbiartic is “The art of science and the science of art”, and topics range freely across that nebulous and fascinating intersection.
In a recent post Mellow gives a nicely succinct overview of The Chemistry of Oil Painting, with a bit of history, discussions of the principal types of oil used and a mention of artistic concerns such as glazing and “fat over lean”. You can find more of Glendon Mellow’s writing and artwork on The Flying Trilobite and his website. Watermelon Special Fruitcarving, Gallery. Wonderfully Creepy Sculptures Carved From Bananas. Untitled. Double Dahl (2007) Plywood, ink, acrylic paint 22 x 53 x 16 inches RGB Ibex (2009) Balsa wood, ink, acrylic paint 41 x 28 x 16.5 inches Schrödinger's Hat (2009) Bass wood, ink, gauche, acrylic paint, felt fedora 10 inch diameter x 22 inches Game (2006)Plywood48 x 72 x 48 inches Puff (2011)Balsa wood, bass wood, ink, acrylic paint30 x 28 x 23 inches Anomaly (2011)Bass wood, ink, acrylic paint 48 x 14 x 6 inches Anvil (2011)Wood, ink, acrylic paint28 x 36 x 13 inches Disintegrating Eagle (2011)Balsa wood, bass wood, ink, acrylic paint71 x 41 x 12 inches Peafile (2006) Plywood, Ink, Acrylic Paint 47 x 74 x 25 inches Skulk (2010) 19 x 37 x 13 inches Balsa Wood, ink, and acrylic paint Albino Alligator (2011)Bass wood, balsa, ink, and acrylic paint32 x 68 x 10 inches Conjoined (2012)Bass wood, balsa, ink, and acrylic paint58 x 58 x 8 inches Kept (2009)Bass wood, ink, acrylic paint, and found bird cage 13 inch diameter x 20 inches Random Access Memory (2010) Balsa wood, ink43 x 19 x 17 inches.
A very controlled chaos. A tornado has scrambled the contents of a small town square, leaving upturned automobiles, lopsided telephone poles and a confused cow planted smack in the middle of very unfamiliar patch of grass. Cracked yellow instrument panels, rusty dials and broken gauges are all that remain of a nuclear power plant control room, devoid of human presence in the aftermath of a meltdown. A glowing orange fire blazes through jagged black trees, rushing in a fury towards a tiny aluminum camper, its inhabitants ignorant of the impending danger.
No, these bizarre scenarios are not plucked from obscure science fiction novels, surrealist dystopias or old folk tales; they are grounded quite solidly in the real world. Except that world is three feet tall. The scenes are doll-housed sized dioramas, meticulously created and photographed by artist Lori Nix. “Even though these scenes aren’t that funny, they’re still kinda funny, in their own way,” Nix says, “because it’s just a little model.” Imagining Yesterday. Chewing gum artist: Painting miniature masterpieces. Cocktail Party Physics: i am a camera. It's Halloween! Jen-Luc Piquant has donned her usual vampire costume for the occasion, although she was tempted to dress up as Lady Gaga this year, just to mix things up a bit. But a Gaga outfit would have clashed with her stylin' beret, and let's face it: Jen-Luc was never meant to be a bleached blonde. Just in time for the spooky festivities, we stumbled across an amazing twist on the pinhole camera, via The Daily What (one of our must-read feeds).
Artsy photographer Wayne Martin Belger constructs his own pinhole cameras, which are works of art all by themselves -- and in this case, he built a pinhole camera out of, well, a 150-year-old human skull of a 13-year-old girl. It's called "The Third Eye," and his website claims he has used it "to study the beauty of decay. " The camera is about 4 inches by inches, and has elements made of aluminum, titantium, brass and silver, with the occasional gem stone thrown in -- because accessorizing is so important. But size isn't everything, right?
Pinhole photography by Justin Quinnell. When Graphic Artists Get Bored. VIDEO: Banksy's Opening For The Simpsons (Which He Storyboarded and Directed) National Portrait Gallery, London | Humanist Heritage. Six ways that artists hack your brain. Brain-hacking art: Pictures that turn inside out - life - 24 September 2010. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of A.
Choi + Shine Architects - The Land of Giants - Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon Competition - Honorable Mention. Westworld_ver2.jpg (JPEG Image, 300×460 pixels) Photography, Pictures, Galleries, Wallpapers, Photo Tips - National Geographic. F**kART: The Complete Series… possibly. “Evil Dave” came from a well known web pic of David Cameron. Using my new *Painting by Numbers* technique; reducing tone and shape to essential colour blocks – I can knock these out quickly enough to stop me getting bored. When I was in my early twenties one of my nicknames was ‘Risotto’ – ready in 20 minutes. I tend to favour paintings or drawings which can be done quickly. I blame all forms of government, modern technology and an inbuilt, but very British, tendency for shallowness and ephemera! The split down the middle reflects my view that Cameron is, actually, a rather nice chap and a true liberal; but has to play Tory and do the business because he just happens to be our prime minister and leading a party, whose members, some of them, judging by their comments on blogs and other media, are orf the bleeding wall when it comes to humanity and caring for the interests of the wider community.
Having a glass or two and doing a bit on nonsense art (mixed media these days!) This is LEG! The art of sharpening pencils. By Matthew James Taylor on 8 October 2007 Welcome to the world of pencil sharpening - this may sound like a dull topic but there is actually a lot more to it than you think. There are a number of different sharpening styles and methods; all good artists should know them. The trick is using the right one at the right time. Sharpening styles There are four main points to select from; the one you choose will depend on the type of pencil you use, and the style of your drawing. The standard point Everyone knows about this one, its trademark conical point is the most common and the most versatile of sharpening styles. There are a couple of drawbacks with this style however. See one of my drawings done with the standard point style: Winged Skeleton: graphite pencil drawing.
The chisel point This is a rarely seen style where the end of the pencil is cut with a knife into a chisel shape. One problem with the chisel design is it can be difficult to master. The needle point The bullet point. Faber-Castell: The future of the pencil. Tate Collection: British art and international modern and contemporary art. I can see right through you this isn't happiness.™ ABOUT ARCHIVE FOLLOW Facebook Twitter Instagram Google+ Ads Via The Deck I can see right through you share it Hi-res 8,080 notes. Practical architecture: Making life easier.