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February 6, 2021

Create Your Own Collage Art With This Supply List and Popular Techniques To Try

One of the best parts of creating art is the endless possibility for exploration. You might stick with just drawing or only painting, but there's one type of visual creation that invites you to combine them all: collage. This technique is defined by incorporating different elements into one single composition to form a new work of art.

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Sculpture

February 6, 2021

Artist Fuses Ceramics Plates With Fringe To Explore Her Dual Heritage as a Mexican-American

Massachusetts-based ceramics and fiber artist Nicole McLaughlin uses her artwork to explore the complexities of her dual heritage.

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Photojournalism

February 5, 2021

Powerful Before-and-After Portraits of Kids Who Escaped Child Labor [Interview]

For over 20 years, Bangladesh photographer GMB Akash has turned his lens towards the marginalized groups of people in his...

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Sculpture

February 5, 2021

Intricate Steampunk Spider Sculptures Crafted From Antique Watches

After working in the game development industry as an art director and lead designer for 25 years, Hungarian illustrator and designer Peter Szucsy decided it was time for a change. He spent years bringing his imaginative monsters and creatures to life in a myriad of fantastical virtual worlds, but it was finally time for him to create something in the physical world.

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Design

February 4, 2021

5 Modern Rube Goldberg Machines That Are Brilliantly Nonsensical

Remember the breakfast machine in Peewee's Big Adventure? Or perhaps “The Snoozatron” device in Wallace and Gromit?

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Style

February 4, 2021

Self-Taught Artist Creates Complex Hairstyles That Look They Belong in a Fantasy Film

For many of us, styling our hair is a way to express ourselves.

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Sculpture

February 4, 2021

Majestic Beauty of Horses Captured in Life-Size Galvanized Wire Sculptures

Based in Norfolk in the UK, self-taught artist Connie Adam sculpts all sorts of creatures out of galvanized wire and scrap metal—and some of her most impressive sculptures are of her horses. Capturing the likeness of all different breeds—some life-size and others quite small—Adam somehow manages to harness the dynamic energy and motion of the majestic animals.

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Embroidery

February 4, 2021

Miniature Dollhouse Cushions Meticulously Embroidered in Extraordinary Detail

Those who are skilled with a needle and thread are known to be pretty meticulous; however, Moscow-based Eugenia and Georgy...

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Art

February 3, 2021

Artist Teams up With Her Dog To Recreate Pawsome Versions of Famous Paintings [Interview]

In the spring of 2020, a creative challenge began to take over the internet.

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Wildlife Photography

February 3, 2021

Wildlife Photographer Captures What Love Looks Like in the Animal Kingdom

The idea of “love” is universal. It spans cultures and time. There are entire industries built on fostering love connections between people. But love and affection aren’t exclusive to humans. In the wild, animals display tender moments of affection all the time. Macedonian photographer Goran Anastasovski has spent 15 years honing his skills in wildlife photography so that he can share these touching instances with others.

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