Van Gogh Make Up

Manchester-based artist James Birkbeck applied makeup to himself to look like one of Vincent Van Gogh’s self portraits and photographed the result. Awesome…

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Shoelace Art

Artist Federico Uribe had been making artwork using shoes when Puma sent him a bunch of different colored laces. Then inspiration struck. Uribe’s “paintings” now fetch as much as $70,000.

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Incredible Hand Paintings by Guido Daniele

Guido Daniele has worked as a hyper-realistic illustrator, co-operating with editing and advertising companies, innovating with airbrush and testing out various painting techniques. In 1990, he developed a body painting technique, and his work has been used in advertising images and commercials, as well as fashion events and exhibitions.

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Il Était Une Fois by Benjamin Lacombe

Il Était Une Fois (Once Upon A Time), is a beautiful pop-up book which features eight classic fairy tales; Alice In Wonderland, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, Madame Butterfly and Thumbelina rendered in splendid 3D illustrations/paintings by the talented french illustrator Benjamin Lacombe with paper pop-up construction design by Jose Pons.

On his website is a spectacularly produced promotional video for the book by Romain Berthou and Laurent Covet from B&C Wall , a Paris collective of directors, character designers and CG animators.

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Painting With Veggies

Chinese artist Ju Duoqi likes to play with her food, recreating classic paintings using precisely diced and sliced veggies.

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Real Life Into Paintings

If you're first thought when looking at paintings by Alexa Meade is "What's so incredible about this?" then you probably think they were done on canvas. But thery're not! What makes Alexa Meade's technique so interesting is that rather than painting on a flat surface to make it look 3 dimensional, she paints on 3D surfaces to make them look flat. Each portrait is an actual person that looks like a painting.

Check out more of Meade's paintings here.

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Custom Illustrated Notes & Calling Cards

Custom illustrated portraits on flat note cards and calling cards
Whimsical portraits painted in your likeness. Hand lettering available.
Order them here.

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