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February 11, 2015
20 gorgeous pieces of street art
20 gorgeous pieces of street art

Whenever you walk down the street, seeing beautiful street art attract you and makes you feel great, isn’t it? There are several places in the world where streets are filled with amazing arts. Today, we have collected 20 gorgeous pieces of street art around the world just for you. Check it out below! 1. Hawaii […]

Spectacular vehicle paintings by Modestas Malinauskas
Spectacular vehicle paintings by Modestas Malinauskas

Lithuanian artist Modestas Malinauskas creates spectacular paintins of large vehicles. Maybe it’s just me, but upon seeing these my first impression was a mix of Hyeronymus Bosch and Myazaki influences. His fantastic paintings are made with one of the hardest techniques to master, oil painting. This is what gives it a somewhat ancient looking style […]

January 27, 2015
Spectacular surreal paintings by Jacek Yerka
Spectacular surreal paintings by Jacek Yerka

Polish artist Jacek Yerka gives you a big picture that turn ordinary landscapes into scary monsters. Think you are living on a nice little island, might just as well be a gigantic monster’s back. If you are ready to take a trip to the land of monsterous beasts, just check out his images here or […]

Thrift store paintings reviewed with cool illustrations
Thrift store paintings reviewed with cool illustrations

On Designer Daily, we already featured the work of another thrift-store painting enhancer, David Irvine. Apparently, this artistic process has a name: NERC (Non-elective Retroactive Collaboration). Another artist based in Portland creates great art based on thrift-store paintings: Mike Wellins. Thanks to him, boring paintings suddenly become lively art with cool stuff happening, like robots […]

January 26, 2015
Optical illusions paintings by Robert Gonsalves
Optical illusions paintings by Robert Gonsalves

Robert Gonsalves is a talented painter, but you shouldn’t trust him too much. In his paintings, you will start by seeing one thing, then it turns into another thing. Some would call Gonsalves’ painting surreal, but he preferes the more accurate description of “magic realism”. His work was strongly influenced by Magritte, but Robert Gonsalves […]

January 25, 2015
Hand-crafted pop-up books by Bozka
Hand-crafted pop-up books by Bozka

Bozka is an artist and illustrator from Warsaw, Poland. She creates stunning illustrated pop-up books. The level of details and explosion of colors is the first thing that jump at you, but each artwork does more than that by telling you a story. Everything is hand-crafted, some very technical work.

Azuma Makoto installed a dozen of iced flowers
Azuma Makoto installed a dozen of iced flowers

Flowers and plants beauty is hard to capture, as the vegetals always grow and keep changing. Japanese artist Azuma Makoto found a temporary solution: freezing the flowers and plants into massive cubes of ice. Shots of the cubes were then taken, showing the cold beauty in a wonderful piece of botanical art.

January 16, 2015
Paintings for ants: tiny art by Lorraine Loots
Paintings for ants: tiny art by Lorraine Loots

After publishing Taylor Maze’s little landscapes, I had to write something about Lorraine Loots and her amazing tiny paintings. The artist creates great drawings at a tiny scale, a size at which normal people cannot draw. She extended it into a project of one tiny drawing a day, and all the paintings were collected in […]

January 15, 2015
Amazing icebergs artworks made in 3D
Amazing icebergs artworks made in 3D

This series, titles “Caustic icebergs”, was created by Swiss artist Chaotic Atmospheres using 3D software. It gives a unique view from both above and below the ocean, with a watercolor-like texture.

January 14, 2015
Stunning landscapes that are smaller than a pen
Stunning landscapes that are smaller than a pen

When you first look at Taylor Maze’s drawings, you may think that they are just well-drawn landscapes by a talented artist. Luckily, he took photos of it with the pens he used for his creations, which allows us to realize how amazing these tiny little artworks are.

January 13, 2015
Digital papercuts
Digital papercuts

A series of digital papercuts I made on the theme “Globalization“. The artworks are designed to look like traditional Swiss papercuts from the Pays d’Enhaut, but with a twist. Since the theme Globalization is nearly impossible to treat… globally, I chose to work on sub-theme that are related. You can view the prints bigger on […]

January 12, 2015
Recent paintings on vintage books by Ekaterina Panikanova
Recent paintings on vintage books by Ekaterina Panikanova

Sometimes the medium an artist uses is just as important as his skills. In Ekaterina Panikanova‘s case, her paintings would definitly not have the same impact if she didn’t work on used books, giving us glimpses of memory on each page. Looking at her work, the whole picture is often less important than the missing […]

January 9, 2015
Architectural perspective games
Architectural perspective games

A photographic project that involves no Photoshop intervention, yet tricks our eyes. Swiss photographers Tayio Onorato and Nico Krebs created these ephemeral structures and shot it to make it look like it was an extension of the buildings. The structures look a bit clumsy, but they are carefuly built to follow the visual lines of […]

January 6, 2015
Body paintings that turn the human body into animal wildlife
Body paintings that turn the human body into animal wildlife

Shannon Holt is a body painter, that means she uses the human body as a canvas for her creations. With all its asperities, the skin isn’t an easy medium to paint on, but it also offers the opportunity to create some sense of ledge. With her “Florida wildlife” series, Holt created animal portraits that took […]

January 5, 2015
Folded paintings by Marcelo Daldoce
Folded paintings by Marcelo Daldoce

Marcelo Daldoce creates paintings of a new kind. He paints women stuck into polygonal structures, then folds the paintings in a way that reinforces the polygonal structure and gives some depth to the painting. These paintings, or should I say sculptures, are a really good example of the close relationship between the visual effects and […]