Painting

October 15, 2018

Amazing Painting Reimagines All the Planets in Perfect Alignment Along Their Curve

Artist Steve Gildea imagines what it’d look like if the planets were all perfectly aligned. Through his Planetary Suite series, he matches the curved edges of nine celestial bodies (including Pluto) to create one eye-pleasing form. With Gildea’s attention to detail and tight rendering, it’s natural to assume that this is the work of astrophotography. They are, however, oil paintings arranged as a polyptych.

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September 7, 2018

Learn How This Artist Creates Glow-in-the-Dark Paintings and Then Make Your Own

Italian artist Cristoforo Scorpiniti, better known as Crisco Art, is back with more glow-in-the-dark paintings that reveal surprises when the lights go out. Primarily focusing on dreamy landscapes and animals, he uses glow-in-the-dark paint to great effect, creating depth and shadows that only appear as the room gets dark. Much like his paintings that illuminate in the shadows, Scorpiniti's creativity blossomed when things got dark in his life.

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August 31, 2018

Iconic Modernist Buildings Reimagined Inside Idyllic Thomas Kinkade Paintings

Featuring angular lines, asymmetrical compositions, and sparse color, the Modernist architecture aesthetic is the complete opposite to the pretty pastoral worlds of a Thomas Kinkade painting. However, when architect and Twitter user @robyniko merged the two in Photoshop, it strangely worked! The artist’s “Modernism mashups” see iconic buildings—including the Eames House, Philip Johnson’s Glass House, and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House—seamlessly placed in the middle of Kinkade’s idyllic scenes.

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August 4, 2018

Colorful Open-Impressionism Paintings Capture the Beauty of Wine Country

California-based artist Erin Hanson creates colorful landscape paintings that pay homage to the American great outdoors. Her latest series has recently been compiled into a 300-page art book, titled Wine Country: Impressions in Oil, and celebrates the beautiful wine regions across California, the Pacific Northwest, Texas, and Virginia. An avid rock climber and backpacker, Hanson has always had an affinity for nature.

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