Food Art
June 13, 2022

Pastry Chef Creates 8-Foot-Tall Giraffe Made Entirely of Chocolate

Chef Amaury Guichon has made a dream cake for animal lovers and chocoholics. Well-known for his realistic cake sculptures, his latest creation is an 8-foot-tall and 160 pound giraffe made entirely of chocolate. The lifesize pastry has been carefully sculpted and painted to bear an uncanny resemblance to its real-life inspiration. Originally from France, Guichon became an executive chef when he was 21 years old.

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Embroidery
June 12, 2022

Embroidered Bird Brooches Use Thread Like Paint To Recreate Our Feathered Friends

Poland-based artist Paulina Bartnik—better known as Embirdery—makes it easy for animal lovers to hold their favorite bird in their hand. She creates exquisite embroidered portraits of feathered creatures in the form of wearable brooches. Each of these carefully rendered creations is made with numerous layers of different-colored thread in combinations of short and long stitches.

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Pencil Drawing
June 11, 2022

Artist Spends 200 Hours Bringing This Amazing Hyperrealistic Drawing to Life

Some works of art are realistic, while others appear so true-to-life that they blow your mind. New York-based artist Dylan Eakin spent 25 days—approximately 200 hours—working on a large-scale hyperrealistic drawing that looks just like a real person. Using a combination of graphite and charcoal pencils, he rendered the young woman cupping her face between her hands while expertly sketching the texture of her skin, hair, and clothes so that they fool the eye.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.