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3782631801_d413a10a89_o1.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024×872 pixels) - Scaled (95. Quilling - Turning Paper Strips into Intricate Artworks. Quilling has been around for hundreds of years, but it’s still as impressive and popular now as it was during the Renaissance. The art of quilling first became popular during the Renaissance, when nuns and monks would use it to roll gold-gilded paper and decorate religious objects, as an alternative to the expensive gold filigree. Later, during the 18th and 19th centuries, it became a favorite pass-time of English ladies who created wonderful decorations for their furniture and candles, through quilling. Basically, the quilling process consists of cutting strips of paper, and rolling them with a special tool.

It sounds simple enough, but special skill is required to create more advanced shapes like marquises, arrowheads or holly leaves. All through the years, the art of quilling has remained almost unchanged, but new specialty supplies now allow quilling masters to create anything from detailed 3-D figures to wall-sized museum installations. Reddit Stumble. Dream Worlds Revealed On Canvas. Along with some magnificent dreams, Jacek Yerka finds inspiration for his masterful paintings from his childhood memories: the places, remembered feelings and smells of 1950′s Poland.

He studied fine art and graphic design before becoming a full time artist in 1980… and we’re glad he did. His paintings will take you through incredible worlds of imagination, bending reality in captivating and clever ways fit to inspire a novel or film. See many more examples of his find paintings at yerkaland.com. See Also ENDEARING MONSTER DRAWINGS POP FROM THE SCREEN Via: hypeness.com.br. City-Scape.jpg (JPEG Image, 2800×1600 pixels) - Scaled (44%) Ric stultz 2012. Tall Painting. Mrs.K's classes. 11 Pencil Vs. Camera Images. 986 653Share10.7K Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and now living in Belgium, Ben Heine is an amazing artist who overlaps hand-drawn works of art with photos to create stunning images.

I selected eleven of his Pencil Vs. Camera images from his site, but you should check out all his awesome work if you have time. Julia's Photo Blog: Peter Callesen - A Single Sheet of Paper. Ethereal Digital Paintings Capture The Look Of Loneliness.

Loneliness never looked so depressingly good. Variations of glittered deformations form the basis for a grotesquely beautiful motif in the works of Japanese artist 非(xhxix). Digitally sketching, drawing, and painting everything using Photoshop alone, 非 visualizes loneliness in his subjects and decorates them with scars, layers of geometric abstractions and floral imagery. As most of his subjects are young men, the artist explains that “boys are more suitable to express loneliness as women are emotional and powerful.” Concocting images of isolated pain and an ethereal sadness into haunting depictions of young western men, 非 reveals a mystified insight into the depths of the Japanese psyche. Cartoon Illustrations by Nacho Diaz. Most of his works are t-shirt designs, but you can easily find them in a number of other projects.

This Spanish designer works for a number of firms and produces amazing cartoon illustrations. Nacho Diaz is the talented artist we are talking about in this post. His works are interesting due to their double meaning and humorous tone that attracts the attention of their viewers. While browsing them, you will certainly notice the special tone that is peculiar to these illustrations. So, let’s do it together and have a look at the creative images by this talented artist!

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