Rd's Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (171)

Utterly Convincing Realistic Paintings of the City by Nathan Walsh

Most of artist Nathan Walsh's paintings are inspired by the complexity and rush of the city as seen in some showcased here. Nathan's paintings are impossibly convincing that you'd mistake them for reality. Amazing.

According to the artist:

I deal…

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Added by rd on January 26, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Cut Up Books Become Eloquent Architecture Pieces

Dutch artist Frank Halmans set out a series called 'Built of Books' where he cuts up old paperbacks and turn them into eloquent architecture pieces.

He carves mostly elements of access, such as windows, doors and staircase that symbolizes moving through something, whether it be a…

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Added by rd on January 25, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Sublime Cityscapes Painted in Oil

San Francisco based artist Jeremy Mann made these mysterious-looking cityscapes using oil paint and rugged technique. Jeremy's paintings may seem abstract at first glance but after a while your eyes will be surprised at how intimate and vigor this urbanscapes were…

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Added by rd on January 25, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

25 Surprising Facts You Might Not Know About

This series called Learn Something Every Day is a self initiated project by UK based design studio Young. It contains surprising facts drawn in cute copic doodles. Find out something you might not know about below...…

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Added by rd on January 24, 2013 at 7:00am — 2 Comments

Impressive Realistic Glass + Reflection Paintings by Jason de Graaf

This collection of hyper-realistic acrylic paintings by Canadian artist Jason de Graaf is simply superb. Each piece has spectacular detailing of reflective and transparent surfaces. Jason aptly creates the illusion of depth and sense of presence not found in photographs. Amazing.

More of his…

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Added by rd on January 23, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Vibrant Street Illustrations by Alice Pasquin

Rome based visual artist Alice Pasquini prefers city walls as her canvas. For the past few years, she has traveled many places to bring her artwork to life on the streets of different cities across the globe.

Through her art she strives to demonstration the small moments between people…

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Added by rd on January 22, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Enjoyable Art of Giant Soap Bubbles

Found out about Ebullitions today, a french company bringing the art of giant soap bubbles to special occasions. Check out this session of making huge bubbles by Sylvain Letuvée as photographed by …

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Added by rd on January 19, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Inspired Drawings on Earth by Andrew Rogers

Lion's Paw, Kenya 2010

The world is an inspired canvas for acclaimed sculptor Andrew Rogers who created “Rhythms of Life”. This collection is the largest contemporary land art undertaking in the world, forming a chain of 48 massive stone structures, or…

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Added by rd on January 18, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Street Art Mathematics by Aakash Nihalan

You've probably seen all kinds of street art but have you stumbled upon one that involves mathematics? Artist Aakash Nihalani offers a simple yet brilliant street art that will definitely make you look.

This project called 'Sum…

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Added by rd on January 16, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

Walk Through a Brilliant Interactive Maze

Design studio LIKE Architects made an illuminating installation for IKEA in Lisbon, Portugal this year. The said project was composed of 1,200 pieces of LEDARE lamps attached to HEMMA floor bases in varied heights. A brilliant way to introduce IKEA's new project, the LEDARE.…

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Added by rd on January 14, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Amazing Portraits Rendered Using Discarded Jeans

Who would've thought of making portraits made entirely of jeans? That would be British artist Ian Berry, also called Denimu. At first, you wouldn't think that these portraits and urban landscapes were created by weeks and weeks of cutting,…

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Added by rd on January 8, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Pedestrian Path Lets You Reflect On Your Life Choices

This installation will make you feel nostalgic and think, what did you want to be when you grow up? Was there anything you wanted to change about your career now?

Candy was commissioned to create public art for Finland’s 2011 European Capital of Culture events. For this…

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Added by rd on January 7, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Splendid Watercolor Paintings by Grzegorz Wrobel

Grzegorz Wróbel's interest in drawing and painting from the early years of childhood but he found fascination in the watercolor technique only in 2002. You'll find that his paintings mostly features buildings and the urban landscape, that's because he works in architecture and everything that is connected with…

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Added by rd on January 5, 2013 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Giant Colored Pencils Appear in Matsudai Joyama

Reverse City is a giant colored pencils installation hung in rows in Matsudai Joyama created by Cameroon-born artist Pascale Marthine Tayou. On each pencil is written the name of one of the countries of the world.

The giant pencils are variously colored; some are short, some are tall. This town of pencils is…

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Added by rd on January 5, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Extremely Detailed Cardboard Sculptures Inspired by Movie Sets

With the use of surgical scalpel and wood glue, Melbourne based artist and filmmaker Daniel Agdag makes these extremely detailed cardboard sculptures guided with only pure intuition and imagination.

The artist calls this collection 'Sets for a Film I’ll Never Make'. He likens the process of creating every piece to sketching 3d objects with…

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Added by rd on January 4, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

7 Million LED Lights at Nabana no Sato Annual Winter Illumination

If you happen to be in Nagoya, you'll definitely enjoy the Nabana no Sato Annual Winter Illumination. Nabana no Sato Flower Park is a botanical garden on the island of Nagashima in Kuwana. This ethereal display of over 7 million LED lights are light every night until end of March 2013.…

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Added by rd on December 31, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

Naturalistic Paper Bird Sculptures

One of Colombian artist Diana Beltran Herrera's paper bird sculpture collection is this series called Salida de campo which means Field Trip. The artist assembled paper bird pieces in different poses as they would act in their naturalistic environment. You'll see one peaking thru the branches, landing on its feet or sipping…

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Added by rd on December 29, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

Incredibly Detailed Moon Wood Carving

Pittsburg based artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth have been making intricate artwork using conventional printmaking since 2006. Their latest and biggest hand-carved project is called The Moon. The drawing was done on a block of 3/4" Birch…

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Added by rd on December 27, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

Colorful Voyage of 300 Illuminated Boats by Aether & Hemera

Claudio Benghi and Gloria Ronchi of Aether and Hemera collaborated for a festive and enjoyable installation called Voyage. 'Voyage' installation consists of three hundred floating 'paper boats', encasing coloured dynamic LED lights that come alive at night in the Middle Dock of …

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Added by rd on December 25, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

Steven Spazuk Creates Incredible Portraits Using Fire

Self-portrait by Steven Spazuk

Artist Steven Spazuk used to be a conventional painter when he dreamt of using soot as a painting medium. Holding a piece of paper on one hand and a lit candle on another,…

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Added by rd on December 22, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

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