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Hungarian artist creates impossible-looking sculptures from pencils

Hungarian artist creates impossible-looking sculptures from pencils
An artist’s eye always sees things, as humble as a pencil, in a much different way than the others. While pencil is a mere writing and drawing instrument for most of us, artists such as Dalton Ghetti use them to create wonderful pieces of complex art for the rest of us to admire. Another artist, specializing in miniature artworks, is a Budapest-based artist and sculptor known by the name of Cerkahegyzo. The sculptor, whose tools are nothing more than small carving tools, fine blades, needles, sandpaper and files, uses the wood and lead of a pencil as the base and body of the sculptures.

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Draw Something: Doodles That Go to Extremes [PICS] I have never been much of an artist. Ask me to draw a cat and you may end up with a picture of a horse that looks like it is high on something. I’ve since left my artistic side to wither in a corner so it can die a lonely, peaceful death. It wasn’t until I’ve heard of, tried out and have since been suffering from the withdrawal symptoms of being away from Draw Something by OMGPOP that I figure that there is still hope for people like me. Branded as the fastest growing social drawing and guessing game, Draw Something (also known as Draw My Thing n some platforms) pits your drawing skills against your game partner’s ability to guess your scribbles and doodles. If you think that these 25 "Draw Something" artworks are anything less than masterpieces, go download the game from their Facebook page, have a run or two at the game, then come back and appreciate them a second time. "Backache" "Bathtub" "Bee" "Beef" "Centaur" "Chainsaw" "Conan" "Cowgirl" "Crawl" "Earth" "Goalie" "Homework" "Hong Kong" "Koopa"

Anamorphic Sculptures London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz creates ‘Anamorphic Sculptures’ which only reveal themselves once facing a reflective cylinder. Hurwitz took an engineering degree in Johannesburg where he discovered the fine line between art and science. He has lived in England for many years, working in the online industry though he quietly levitated into the world of art inspired by a need to make ‘something real’. All images © Niina Keks, Otto Pierotto, Richard Ivey

It's Hard to Believe but These Are Not Photographs (39 pics) Unbelievable paintings that are not photographs. Alyssa Monks - Oil on linen Paul Cadden - Small drawing pencil on paper Kamalky Laureano - Acrylic on canvas Gregory Thielker - Oil on canvas Lee Price - Oil on linen Ben Weiner - Paintings of paint Ron Mueck - Sculpture, mixed materials Kim Ji-hoon - Pencil Christina K - Drawing on tinted brown paper Ray Hare - Acrylic painting on canvas Daisy - Charcoal Pedro Campos - Oil on canvas Dirk Dzimirsky - Graphite on paper Thomas Arvid - Limited edition Giclee on canvas Rafal Bujnowski - Black and white paint Paul Cadden - Pencil on paper Robin Eley - Oil on Belgian linen Samuel Silva - Ballpoint pen Gottfried Helnwein - Oil and acrylic on canvas Kelvin Okafor - Graphite pencils Franco Clun - Pencils on watercolor paper Amy Robins - Colored pencil on cartridge paper Mike Bayne - Oil on wood panel Robert Longo - Charcoal on mounted paper Diego Fazio - Charcoal pencil ryan Drury - Oil on wood

2011 Global Temperatures Nine of the top ten warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. Last year was another one of them, coming in at 9th warmest since 1880. The map above shows temperature anomalies, or changes, by region in 2011; it does not depict absolute temperature. Essentially, the map shows how much warmer or cooler each region was in 2011 compared with an averaged “base period” from 1951–1980. The line plot shows yearly temperature variations (from the base period average) for every year from 1880 to now. On January 19, 2012, researchers at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) released their annual analysis of global temperatures, noting that Earth’s land and ocean surfaces continue to experience higher temperatures than several decades ago. “We know the planet is absorbing more energy than it is emitting,” said GISS director James Hansen. The difference between 2011 and the warmest year (2010) is 0.22 degrees F (0.12 C). Instrument(s):

Doodle Rebellion! Last year, I had featured Lei Melendres‘ “Crazy Comix Doodles,” and since then he has worked on new sketchbook drawings. His illustrations generally include wacky characters crammed together on a page or two, and many of them, are actually quite mouthy! Artwork © Lei Melendres A due colori Italian artist Alberto Seveso was born in Milan, but is now working as a freelancer in Portoscuso, Sardinia-Italy. His passion for graphic art started when he was in a young age and he was really fascinated by the graphic of skate decks and the cover of music CD of metal bands. From this passion he started to create his artwork. In his series ‘A due colori’ Seveso experiments with high-speed photography while trying to find a new way to make something beautiful using ink and water. Loving to play with colors and tones, this series embodies the concept of stopping time through ink in the image. All images © Alberto Seveso | Via: mindsparklemag

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