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I couldn’t help but direct everyone to fellow public art loving blog Street Art Utopia as they have compiled a pretty decent list of the best street art of 2011. If you are just getting into the wonderful world of pasting, spraying or making the streets a more creative place, this list is a great place to start (short of Wall and Piece ). One of the best things about this genre is it’s diversity – you can decided what you find gimmicky/twee or meaningful and awe-inspiring. Street art has always been the public’s voice, and the art world has yielded success to those with great ideas and a call for change.
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Photo Realistic Paintings by Alyssa Monks | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
Using photos for loose reference, Brooklin-based artist Alyssa Monks creates incredibly realistic paintings that make viewers scratch their eyes in awe. Although many set photo realism as their ultimate goal, artists that can make people ask themselves “Is this a photo I’m looking at?” when they look at their masterpieces, are really rare. Alyssa Monks is one of those few talented masters that can recreate a photo from scratch using a paintbrush, as well as add their own personal touch and making an artwork really their own. Looking at her amazing works, it’s hard to believe they’re actually painted, and viewers are often only convinced when thy get close enough to see the brush strokes.
Paul Cadden is a Scottish-born hyperrealist artist who creates painfully realistic artworks using only graphite and chalk. I’ve posted some pretty realistic drawings in the past, like Rajacenna’s detailed celebrity portraits , Juan Francisco Casas’ photo-like ballpoint pen drawings , or Paul Lung’s pencil artworks , but the pieces you’re about to see are on a whole other level. Using simple materials like graphite and white chalk, Paul Cadden is able to replicate complex photos down to the tiniest details. Whether it’s the countless wrinkles on an old man’s face, the smoke from a lit cigarette or the water dripping from someone’s face, he makes it look unbelievably realistic.
Paul Cadden's Hyperrealistic Drawings Made with Graphite and Chalk | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
La Danza by Hamish Blakely | Who Designed It?
Hamish Blakely perfectly captures the poses, emotions, and idiosyncrasies of dancing in his series La Danza. I love the detailed outifts, color choices, and the variety of moves he captures. He also has a nice series featuring The Roaring Twenties .
Aqueous Fluoreau: photographs of paint dropped into water by Mark Mawson - Telegraph
Clouds of vivid colour hang in a black void. These could almost be the latest images from a satellite deep in outer space. However, these pictures are the work of photographer Mark Mawson who uses a secret technique involving paint and water.
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Chan Hwee Chong Makes Spiral Illustrations with a Single Line | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
In one of the most impressive advertising ideas I have ever seen, Singapore-based art director and designer Chan Hwee Chong uses a single long line to create spiral recreations of famous artworks . In an inspired advertising campaign for Faber-Castell, designer Chan Hwee Chong demonstrates his unbelievable talent by creating spiral illustrations inspired by some of the most popular masterpieces in history. Using the above mentioned company’s pens, he starts with a blank canvas, and by drawing a continuous line in a spiral he somehow manages to make detailed reproductions of the famous works of art. The level of precision and control in Chong’s creations is simply amazing, and although I watched a short video of him in action, I’m still not sure how he manages to achieve such detailed reproductions with a single line.
(CBS) - First off, let me say that I love the band "Explosions In The Sky". And don't misunderstand me: I don't just like them, I love them. And that's part of why I am so fascinated by the amazing video above. That, and it is just incredible to watch the time-lapse process involved in designing a band's concert poster - check it out! The mesmerizing Vimeo video was posted by DKNG Studios and shows the process behind their creation of a poster for an "Explosions In The Sky" concert in Minneapolis.
Mesmerizing video shows the process behind an "Explosions In The Sky" concert poster - The Feed - CBS News
Peter Callesen creates amazing paper cuts that tell a story, not only he assembles the cutted paper into mini-sculptures, but he also uses the cutted space to show something.
A4 papercuts by Peter Callesen
Rajacenna Draws Celebrity Portraits | Oddity Central - Collecting Oddities
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.
How to Transfer a Photograph Onto a Block of Wood
Here’s a quick and easy tutorial that’ll teach you a cool method of transferring a photo print (black and white or color) onto a block of wood. All you’ll need (aside from the photo and wood) is some gel medium and Mod Podge . You’ll want to use prints made with some kind of laser printer or copier rather than an ink printer.Mesmerizing Mixed Media Portraits (12 total) - My Modern Metropolis
Using a variety of different tools including a bic pen, watercolors and Chinese ink, artist Florian Nicolle creates amazing, mixed media portraits. After a rigorous amount of drawing and painting, she then adds texture and detail using Photoshop. As she explains to us, "I try to create an image that retains its freshness of the first paint stroke, the expressions of the line have to be very free and spontaneous..I draw a picture as if I wrote a text, with the same tool, the same freedom, with erasures, lines, scribbles etc..."Painting
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