Art

February 15, 2016

Large-Scale Oil Paintings of Celebrities Created with Boldly Textured Brushstrokes

Contemporary visual artist Colin Davidson creates powerful and realistic portraits from his home in Belfast, North Ireland. His pieces are united by a characteristic painting style which makes use of bold, decisive strokes to form textured final products. His angular, choppy brushwork extracts details from the planes of his subject's faces, creating the illusion of lighting hitting the skin, and forming hyper-realistic tributes to an array of celebrity figures.

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February 11, 2016

Artist Expresses Her Own Emotions through Hyperrealistic Paintings of Women with Different Faces

Bronwyn Hill is an up-and-coming figurative painter based in Brisbane, Australia. Her delicate artwork typically depicts realistic portraits of women placed in natural settings, rendered through oil paints and skilled layering techniques. Each of Hill's artworks capture a lovely and natural beauty, radiating tangible emotion that speaks volumes of her artistic talent. Naming light and patterns in nature as leading influences within her pieces, Hill makes use of her artwork as a means of self-expression.

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February 9, 2016

Clever "Element" Crayons Help Kids Learn the Periodic Table as They Color

There's more than one way to memorize the elements on the Periodic table. You can turn them into a rousing game of Battleship or brighten up the pages of your favorite coloring book with Calcium, Potassium, and Titanium. Etsy shop Que Interesante adds some educational fun to art supplies by selling labels that match a chemical element with a wax crayon, turning your coloring tools into a labeled periodic table.

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February 5, 2016

Life-Size Animal Sculptures Made Entirely Out of Galvanized Wire

Contemporary animal sculptor Kendra Haste is able to create life out of rolls of galvanized wire. Making use of the material to form contoured pieces that contrast solidity with empty space, Haste breathes a sense of movement into her creature creations.  She has built a complete menagerie of animals, each anatomically correct and powerfully made, as she effortlessly transforms the textured wire into the muscled flanks of a bear and the scraggly mane of a laughing hyena.

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