Art

April 22, 2019

Artist Paints Landscapes on Jackets Turning the Wearer into a Walking Art Gallery

Self-taught artist Feliks Kaparchuk, aka ColorByFeliks, recreates the beauty of the natural world in unconventional places. The tranquil scenes of towering trees, endless starry skies, and glassy waters inhabit the back of denim jackets and tote bags to turn the wearer into a mobile art gallery. “I think painting on different surfaces is just another way to be creative with my artwork.

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April 20, 2019

Prolific Painters Share Their Top Tips for Painting Extraordinary Portraits

Portrait painting is a tricky subject. Often, you’re trying to achieve a person’s likeness—which is itself challenging enough—while also focusing on technique. But the fact that a good portrait is hard to achieve is a great reason to try painting one in the first place. The only way you’re going to improve in your art is to push yourself to make increasingly complicated things.

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April 19, 2019

Artist Uses Tape to Turn Flat Surfaces into Fun and Colorful 3D Illusions

New York-based artist Aakash Nihalani is known for his playful optical illusion installations that blend graphic, cartoon worlds with reality. He uses a variety of material, including tape, paint, paper, vinyl, wood, and steel to create trick-of-the-eye, three-dimensional artworks that aren’t always what they seem. Nihalani’s latest work transforms ordinary gallery walls and outdoor spaces into interactive playgrounds. Viewers are encouraged to come closer, play, and question reality.

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April 16, 2019

6 Contemporary Relief Artists Who Put a Modern Spin on This Ancient Art

Relief art is one of the earliest forms of sculpting, with the first records dating back to the cave art of the Upper Paleolithic, around 25,000 BCE. Over the centuries, it remained a popular art form in many cultures, from Ancient Egyptian wall carvings to the sculpted marble and bronze pictorial style of the Italian Renaissance. Today, many contemporary artists continue to practice the age-old sculptural technique, but often with a modern twist.

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My Modern Met

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