Artist Connects 6,239 Dots, Draws Mona Lisa

Thomas Pavitte decided to create his own 6,239-dot puzzle. As you’d imagine, something of that magnitude should result in something other than a rocketship, an apple, or a telephone. In fact, Mr. Pavitte ended up connecting all the dots and creating his own version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa!!!

The project took him nine hours to complete drawing, but that doesn’t include however much time it took him to actually plot out the dots and number them in the first place.

Due to the sheer number of dots, he also color-coded them, switching the hue every 400 dots in order to keep from being distracted by literally thousands of other potential vertices.

The whole drawing is essentially one continuous string of segments, though, and their result is pretty clearly the Mona Lisa.

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The Real Pikachu

No way!! So freakin adorable!!! Artist Pavel Lagutin took an ordinary photo of a kitten and turned it into the electrifying Pokemon known as Pikachu.

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They Draw & Cook

They Draw & Cook is a cooking blog with a collection of illustrated recipes submitted by a variety of artists, designers, illustrators and cooks.

The recipes from the blog are eventually going to be compiled into an illustrative cookbook

For those of you that are interested in submitting your own illustrated recipe, take a look at the submission page.

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Artist Figurines

The cutest little figurines of Dali, Warhol, Van Gogh and Picasso!

Get them here.

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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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Occupation Mugs

Get them here!

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TiltShift Van Gogh

Artist Serena Malyon adds tilt-shift photography effects to Van Gogh's famous paintings!

Using Photoshop, she manipulated the light and adjusted the focus to make us see these paintings in ways we could have never imagined.

Amazingly, nothing in these paintings was changed, added or removed.

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Shadow Art

Kumi Yamashita, a talented Japanese artist, is famous for creating unique art by casting light over strategically placed objects.

The objects on the wall help direct the shadow and form cool silhouettes.

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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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Ephemicropolis

Artist Peter Root latest work is ‘Ephemicropolis’, a metropolis made completely from stacks of metal staples. the piece consists of over 100,000 staples that were assembled over a time period of 40 hours. The stacks were each broken into different sizes, designed to represent everything from small scale buildings to large skyscrapers. The largest stacks are about 12 cm high, while some buildings consist of only a single staple. The whole installation takes up a floor space of about 6m x 3m.

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Photos Combined with Pencil Drawings

Ben Heine, a talented Belgian artist, has created a series of awesome images by combining photographs with pencil drawings.

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Recycled Cassette Tape Portraits

Erika Iris Simmons, a talented self-taught artist, creates amazing portraits of famous musicians out of recycled audio cassette tapes.

You can view the entire “Ghost in the Machine” series of cassette tape portraits at here.

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