Art

October 15, 2020

Sculptor Creates “Glitchy” Wooden Figures and Shares His Process on Instagram

Taiwanese sculptor Hsu-Tung Han fuses traditional woodworking techniques with a visual motif that is distinctly modern. Each of his wooden portraits is distorted with pixelated “glitches” that obscure some areas of the built figure. Part of a face, for instance, is missing or a man's chest is vibrating with wooden cubes. The result of these “bugs” is a contemporary feel while the analog media is a contrasting nostalgic effect.

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October 12, 2020

Illustrator Reimagines Disney Princesses as Brides Posing for Wedding Photos With Their Parents

Russian artist Oksana Pashchenko has become Instagram famous for her creative reimagining of Disney princesses. Previously, she portrayed the animated starlets, each pregnant with their first child; and now, she is depicting another important day in their lives. This new fan art series shows the princesses accompanied by their parents on their wedding days. Pashchenko illustrates these family portraits in the style of a photograph.

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October 10, 2020

Ethereal Angel Sculpture Appears to Effortlessly Float Above the Ground

American artist Benjamin Victor is renowned for his incredible figurative sculptures that recall classical masters such as Michelangelo and Bernini. He is the only living artist to have three of his sculptures in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Among Victor's impressive oeuvre of different sculptural works is a depiction of an ethereal angel floating above the ground.

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October 5, 2020

Creative Dad Imagines Kids’ Drawings as Delightfully Bizarre Real-Life Animals

Children’s drawings are especially delightful because of the imagination that's contained within them. Sure, the anatomy of an animal might be way off, but that’s part of the fun. Artist and father-of-two Tom Curtis celebrates this creativity by bringing kids’ artworks to life. In his ongoing series titled Things I have drawn, Curtis uses Photoshop to transform crayon sketches into three-dimensional figures that look unexpectedly real, albeit extremely bizarre.

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