Art

May 12, 2019

Ocean-Inspired Illustration Raises Awareness of Rapid Marine Life Extinction

In a bid to help raise awareness for the pressing issues our planet’s oceans are facing today, British illustrator Mat Miller teamed up with Pangeaseed Foundation for his latest piece, titled Equilibrium. The colorful illustration is part of the company’s In Peril print collection, which aims to highlight the rapid extinction of sea creatures and their ecosystem’s vulnerability.

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May 8, 2019

Follow These 4 Easy Steps to Sketch Any Landscape You See

How to Draw a Landscape in Four Steps This realistic landscape drawing process translates across terrains. Using the same four steps, it will help you break down even the busiest of places so that they can be rendered in pencil. Before you begin, make sure you have a great view of your landscape, whether that’s in real life or in a photograph.

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May 6, 2019

Giant Suspended “Chandelier” Collects Rainwater in an Italian Forest

Inspired by ever-changing biological forms and natural ecosystems, artist John Grade sculpts large-scale installations that explore the impermanence of nature. For his latest piece, titled Reservoir, Grade visualizes the patterns of forest rainfall with a huge net structure suspended amongst the trees. The dazzling, chandelier-like piece is featured in the Arte Sella Sculpture Park in Borgo Valsugana, Italy. It comprises 5,000 heat-formed, clear plastic compartments that each collect the rainwater as it falls.

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May 2, 2019

Guy Turns His Old iPhone into Art by Taking It Apart and Framing It

A broken phone is a frustrating but inevitable fate we’re all familiar with. While most people trash or recycle their old cell phones, Reddit user TheIncorporeal turned his into art. The thrifty creative deconstructed his dead iPhone and artistically arranged the individual parts inside a wooden frame. This isn’t the first piece of tech art TheIncorporeal has created. The artist also framed the parts of other iPhone models, including an iPhone 5, 4S, and 4.

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