Sistine Chapel. Rajacenna Draws Celebrity Portraits. Rajacenna is an 18-year-old self-taught artist from the Netherlands who draws the most realistic portraits I have ever seen, using only pencils. I’m a big fan of realistic drawings, and I’ve previously featured amazing works like the pencil drawings of Paul Lung, the ballpoint pen portraits of Juan Francisco Casas, or Cristina Penescu’s detailed scratchboard masterpieces, but at only 18 years of age Rajacenna is in a league of her own. Born in 1993, she started modelling for various Dutch companies when she was only 4, and at 5 years old she made her first appearance on television.
She starred in films, soap-operas and tv-series and at 12 she became the host of Kinderjournaal, the first Dutch web-tv for kids. She only took up drawing in 2009, and although she had never taken any art classes she produced some stunning pieces. Reddit Stumble. Now that's how to doodle: The incredible pictures that look like photographs drawn with a ball point pen.
By Leon Watson Published: 09:43 GMT, 24 August 2012 | Updated: 13:51 GMT, 24 August 2012 If you think these incredible images are photos, think again. They are in fact probably the world's most intricate doodles. It may be hard to hard to believe but the pictures below are created using standard ballpoint pens bought from places like Staples, eBay, Amazon and, the artist says, any good office supply store. They're drawn by Portugal-based attorney Samuel Silva, who describes his art as a hobby. Like a photo: Portugal-based attorney Samuel Silva, 29, describes his art as a hobby Silva has drawn images of wildlife, recreated masterpieces like Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and copied iconic photos so accurately they're almost indistinguishable from the original. For his Redhead Girl, based on a photograph by Russian photographer Kristina Taraina, the 29-year-old used six different colored ballpoint pens which took some 30 hours to finish.
This was Silva's first ever picture of a jaguar. The Guardian on Facebook. 40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken. Minimal Bollywood Posters. Advertising Ka Kamaal - An Academic Look at Advertising... Libraries of the Rich and Famous: Part Three. Apparently Parts One and Two weren’t enough for you – you wanted more. Don’t we all? More books, more nooks, more time to read. Here are four more extravagant libraries to whet your appetites. Now, if I could just figure out how to get inside of one of these grand ladies, I’d be a happy girl. Harlan Crow, real estate magnate from Dallas, Texas. It is said that he has a collection of over 8,000 books and 3,500 manuscripts, along with a collection of artwork, photographs, and correspondence.
His library also contains a deed to George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, as well as a silver tankard created by Paul Revere. Welcome to Skywalker Ranch – a residence of director and producer George Lucas. Readers from the last two posts have called out for this personal library to be showcased. This is the library of the Biltmore House, the largest privately owned home in the United States. Inception Explained - An interactive animated infographic.