Art

August 19, 2013

Incredible Charcoal Drawings Textured with Scalpel Blades and Sandpaper

Scottish artist Douglas McDougall creates fantastically photorealistic drawings using charcoal as his primary medium but then he textures each work using scalpel blades, sharply cut erasers and coarse sandpaper. The detail to each piece is mind-blowing, especially when it comes to facial hair and weathered skin. What effect does scratching the artwork create?

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August 14, 2013

Neo-Romantic Sculptures of Different Women Made with Same Bust

Toronto-based artist Gosia explores the three-dimensional world of sculpting live models while incorporating her fantasy-driven imagination. Using one original bust, the sculptor molds each of her neoromantic creations from her template and accents them with different accessories that reflect the characters she envisions in her mind.

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August 11, 2013

Shaping Fire Into Artistic Forms

Rob Prideaux has created a fantastic series entitled Smoke & Fire. The body of work originated after Prideaux was unable to find a suitable fire image for a project he was working on. Each of his scenes features bright bursts of fire captured against a stark white background. The photos were taken in the split second they were visible before vanishing, and then were slightly touched up.

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August 8, 2013

Beautiful African Beach Calligraphy by Andrew van der Merwe

While we've seen incredible sand drawings before, like those by England-based artist Tony Plant, and while we'll always be a fan of calligraphy, especially when it's mixed with graffiti, we've never thought of putting the two art forms together…until now. Today, we stumbled upon the work of Andrew van der Merwe, a professional calligrapher, based in Cape Town, South Africa, who also goes by the title, “world's first beach calligrapher.

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