Embroidery

June 25, 2018

Embroidery Artist Stitches Colorful Interiors of Homes Filled With Charming Details

Russian artist Elena Moart combines her love of interior design with textile art in her home-inspired embroidery designs. Her detailed works feature charming settings complete with vintage furniture, patterned wallpaper, house plants, and even miniature artworks hung from the walls. Each piece is full of texture and tonal details, creating homey scenes that look almost real enough to step inside the embroidery hoop and live inside the artist’s textile world.

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April 10, 2018

Colorful ‘Jingle Trucks’ Rule the Road in Pakistan

If you've spent any time in South Asia, specifically Pakistan, Afganistan, and India, you've surely seen colorful, ornate trucks rumbling down roads and highways. In these countries, especially Pakistan, truck art is more than just cultural expression, it's also a deeply rooted tradition that can cause a business boom for drivers. So what is the history behind these movings pieces of art?

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April 3, 2018

Artist Gives Old Paintbrushes New Life and Personality as Baroque Characters

Los Angeles-based surrealist artist Alexandra Dillon brings new life to found objects by transforming them into charming characters. Using old, worn-out paintbrushes, tools, and other studio items as her canvas, Dillon personifies each object by covering them with portrait paintings, reminiscent of the Baroque art style and Roman-Egyptian mummy portraits. Rather than plan her imaginary portraits in advance, Dillon just begins painting and, she reveals, “They show up and tell me who they are.

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March 23, 2018

24 Artists, Sculptors, and Illustrators Who Create the “Tiniest Art in the World”

Dating back thousands of years, miniature art had its heyday during the 16th and 17th centuries when tiny paintings were often enclosed in jewelry cases and given as gifts. Today, contemporary artists continue to create incredible, itsy-bitsy masterpieces—some of which are no bigger than your finger tip. In celebration of these present-day painters, crafters, and makers, Chronicle Books has recently published an art book called Think Small that features “the tiniest art in the world.

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