Art
August 23, 2012

Extraordinary Hyperrealistic Ballpoint Pen Portrait

It may be hard to believe, but this portrait simply referred to as Redhead Girl is not a photograph. Once you come to realize what you're looking at is created by hand, your mind may go straight to being amazed that someone painted such a detailed image, but this is not a painting either. This hyperrealistic portrait is, in fact, an illustration drawn with ordinary Bic ballpoint pens.

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Art
August 21, 2012

Stunning Geometric Mirrored Animal Sculptures

London-based artist Arran Gregory's work spans from illustration to minimalist sculptures. In a recent exhibit at The Print House Gallery, titled WOLF, Gregory featured two of his Mirrored Animals sculptures alongside a variety of his detailed illustrations. In the sculptures, Gregory uses strong geometric shapes and angles, combined with a reflective mirrored material, to create the futuristic animal figures. The two pieces at WOLF include (of course)

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Art
August 18, 2012

Dazzling Pen Portraits by Josh Bryan

While at first glance these stunning black and white portraits look like they were created in Illustrator, you'd be surprised to find out they're actually pen drawings. 20-year-old England-based artist Josh Bryan has a set called Triangulations where he's taken some well-known celebrities – like Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Helen Bonham Carter, and Johnny Knoxville – and created their likeness in abstract, geometric form. Hundreds of tiny triangles make up each face. Love love love.

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Art
August 16, 2012

The United Nations of Ant Farms

Across the course of his career, Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi has found ways to collaborate with the tiny little world of ants in his artwork. In The World Flag Ant Farm, Yanagi created a series of world flags by pouring colorful sand into a labyrinth of plexiglass boxes connected by tubes. He then introduced live ants into the art farm and let them go about their daily lives.

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