3D Paintings on Panes of Glass Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. Xiawan’s “spatial paintings,” which often feature distorted figures, are drawn individually using colored pencil on tinted glass. Only when these pieces are combined on their floor racks do the images create the whole hologram like effect. See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK For more on David Spriggs see his beautiful website at davidspriggs.com or for more on Xia Xiaowan see Wikipedia Above and Below: Xia Xiaowan’s distorted 3D figures Artist: Xia Xiaowan Below: David Spriggs beautiful paintings fill the room with stormy emotion. Artist: David Spriggs
Handwritten Fonts – Free Fonts of the Week nr. 6 Before inventing printing machines and metal types, handwriting remained the only way to save the literary works on paper and deliver the gained knowledge to the next generations. In many parts of the world, handwritten scripts achieved the levels of true art with aesthetic perfection of the lines and glyphs. Today, handwritten fonts remain extremely popular among designers, especially for such projects as logo or greeting cards designs, where personal appeal and high artistic qualities of the printed text value much more than its plain readability. A rich collection of free handwritten fonts is offered below for every cruziner to feel all the benefits of high quality handwritten fonts. The King & Queen WC ROUGHTRAD Bta Jellyka Castle’s Queen Carefree Japanese Brush Christopherhand Tabitha Brook 23 Burst My Bubble Juergen Snyder Speed Brush The Sixth Sense Jellyka BeesAntique Handwriting FFF Tusj Bold Christina Gardiner Sans HZHandwrite BlackJack Regular The Quiet Scream SwingSet BB PetraScriptEF
suckatlife.com - artwork by lawrence yang Cheers To Finger Power! Future technology Mind you, this is not a “Green” concept and neither does it claim to be “Eco Friendly”. It’s just a helpful solution for a tricky situation. The situation being: you running out of juice on your mobile phone. So what do you do? Future technology devices conceptEbook readersConcept phone nokiaInteresting technologyFuture computers conceptCool gadgets 2010Technology future il lee « style/SWOON oh the patience… The first time I saw the work of Il Lee was in a Santa Fe gallery at the Gerbert Contemporary. It was so different, truly amazing. HUGE pieces of art done solely with a blue ballpoint pin on canvas. I kept staring at it thinking ‘how many ballpoint pens did he have to use to do that’? images via art projects international
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Bokeh Photography - 30 Examples Of Bokeh Photography Posted on Oct 09, 2010 | Comments 0 107.8K Flares107.8K Flares × Bokeh Photography simply means bringing out the sharpness of your focus area by aesthetically blurring the out-of-focus area of your picture. The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means “blur” or “haze”, or boke-aji, the “blur quality”. While clicking your picture you will have to be close to the area of your focus and also see to it that there is a good amount of distance between the focus area and the background area. You can even have a whole shot as a Bokeh Picture and you don’t even need to have any particular focus area. The reduced field-depth will suddenly make the most mundane areas alive. Here are 30 Examples of Bokeh Photography for you to enjoy seeing. ( Photo by sara kiesling ) ( Photo by Zitaaa ) ( Photo by moaan ) ( Photo by Chris Seufert ) ( Photo by Will Montague ) ( Photo by photonyx ) ( Photo by Mr. ( Photo by P.J.M. ) ( Photo by FragmentaryBlue ) ( Photo by Josh Liba ) ( Photo by june1777 ) ( Photo by ~K~ )
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One Sheet of Paper We already had a post of Weird Toilet Paper Roll Art, showing Yuken Teruya’s beautiful cutouts of Toilet paper rolls, and now I present another super creative artist, Peter Callesen, who does something similar, but this time out of single A4 paper sheets. “Lately I have worked almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with different meaning. I would have never thought that one could make such masterpieces using just one sheet of paper! Looking back, 2006 White Hand, 2007
Sounds To Sleep To PersonalNote Did you know on an average week I may be approached by as many as 20-35 artists looking for gallery representation? Most of them are ineffective. Are you making the same mistakes they are? Before I explain, let me introduce myself. My name is Jason Horejs. In August I publishied my new book, "Starving" to Successful | The Artist's Guide to Getting into Galleries and Selling More Art. This book comes from my experiences with artists. That lack of information leads to these blunders: Mistake #1: Presenting an inconsistent body of work. Artists generally love their freedom. Often I feel I am looking at the work of multiple artists as I review a single portfolio. If you work in several media and a variety of styles, focus on just one for the next 6-12 months. You can further create consistency by presenting the work in a consistent way. If you simply can’t rein your style in, consider creating multiple portfolios, one for each style. Don’t despair if you are far from reaching this goal. 1. 2.
Human Bones Used to Make Art Francois Robert has created a series of powerful artworks made out of real human bones to remind people about the consequences of violence. Human skeleton is a strong visual symbol that represents what is left after life has ended, after the flesh and mind cease to function. Also check out: Fruit and Vegetable Skulls With Maidens of Mystery - The artwork of Audrey Kawasaki | culturazzi Audrey Kawasaki is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her characteristic works that are painted directly onto wood panels. Kawasaki studied fine art painting at the Pratt Institute in New York City, but left after two years without completing her degree. The emphasis that New York art standards put on conceptual art was at odds with her painting ideologies and was the reason for her leaving. The unique style that she renders to her artworks can be described as a fusion of eastern as well as western traditions such as Art Nouveau and Japanese Manga comics. Audrey’s paintings are portrayals of young, mesmerizing women who come across as innocent and tantalizing at once. Audrey’s command of her unique and precise illustrative style has made her works wildly popular today and has found her an esteemed place in the art gallery scene across the world.