Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramée For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where […]
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Beauty Beyond Nature: Stunning Artistic Glass Paperweights by Paul J. Stankard
Paul J. Stankard is an internationally acclaimed artist and pioneer in the studio glass movement. He is considered a living master in the art of the paperweight, and his work is represented in more than 60 museums around the world. He is a Fellow of the American Craft Council and a recipient of the UrbanGlass […]
Young Japanese Man Makes Lollipops To Keep A 1,200-Year-Old Tradition Alive
Amezaiku is Japanese candy artistry, and it has been around since the eighth century. In order to do the craft, the artist works with multi-colored taffy and, by hand, using tools such as tweezers and scissors, creates a sculpture that resembles an animal. These artists then hand paint their candy with edible dyes, giving the […]
50 Absolutely stunning 3D street art – Part 2
3d Street Art, often known as 3d chalk art is 2-dimensional artwork drawn on the street itself that gives you a 3-dimensional optical illusion from a certain angle. It can be very breathtaking, realistic and at the same time captivating, once you get the angle correct. 3D street art has been around for quite some […]
50 Absolutely stunning 3D street art – Part 1
3d Street Art, often known as 3d chalk art is 2-dimensional artwork drawn on the street itself that gives you a 3-dimensional optical illusion from a certain angle. It can be very breathtaking, realistic and at the same time captivating, once you get the angle correct. 3D street art has been around for quite some […]
ART | Discarded hubcaps transformed into amazing animal sculptures
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or over twelve years now, Brighton, UK-based artist Ptolemy Elrington has been morphing discarded hubcaps into amazing animal sculptures. While most of us see hubcaps as just replaceable car accessories, Elrington sees them as art, taking these scraps of metal and forming them into everything from a fish and birds, to a shark and dragons. […]
ART | Superheroes reimagined as 16th century paintings
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat would it look like if Superman was born in the 16th century? What if the Hulk was a Duke? These are the questions photographer Sacha Goldberger asked himself when he created this playful new series Super Flemish. Some of our favorite pop culture characters like Darth Vader and Snow White got the Flemish treatment […]
VIDEO | Creativity is Madness
“We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active, work project…” – Ernest Becker
ART & VIDEO | “Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.” ― Bryant McGill
Philippe Faraut is a figurative artist specializing in life-size portrait sculptures and monumental stone sculptures. His media of choice are water-based clay and marble. From his extensive research of the human face he developed a technique of modeling the portrait that he shares with his sculpting students during his numerous sculpting classes and seminars taught throughout the US. Check out […]
ART | Nothing but intense concentration, amazing skills and loads of practice.
Intricate Paper Cutouts by Kirie Artist Akira Nagaya Akira Nagaya, a self-taught Japenese Kirie (literally “cut paper” in Japanese) artist has spent the past 30 years of his life learning one of the most ancient and beautiful arts in the world. It requires patience, and brilliance, but most importantly… a willingness to endure years of paper […]