Incredible Fingerprint Paintings by Judith Braun
New York-based artist, Judith Braun, creates giant symmetrical wall paintings, using only her fingertips as brushes. This would be difficult to do with one hand at a time, but Judith sometimes uses both hands at the same time. As children, we all got our hands dirty then tried to use our fingers to draw, but […]
Artist Disappears in the Background of Her Works
Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes uses a mix of make-up, paint and costumes to make herself disappear in her own paintings. Like the real-life invisible man, Liu Bolin, she is a master of blending-in the background. Paredes explains her technique as a way of making herself part of the landscape ïn a quest of belonging”. “The theme behind all is […]
Creative Agency Creates Detailed Money Portraits
Artists from Chinese creative agency Senseteam cut apart banknotes from various country and recomposed them as detailed portraits, in a series called Big Business 3. ‘Currency symbolizes the value of a nation and its position in the world,’ the designers say, so their portraits ‘reflect the subtle relationships and influences across money, desire, society, nations, and […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #25
Chaiten – The Chilean Town Engulfed by Volcanic Mudflow (Environmental Graffiti) World of Warcraft Addicts Pee in Bottles to Stay Glued to Computers (The Register) 1,000-Pound Butter Sculpture to Power Farm for Three Days (Huffington Post) Impressive Boat Made from Thousands of Donated Items (Daily Mail) Real-Life Milka Purple Calf Born in Croatia (You Kidding […]
Is This the World’s Worst Tattoo Artist?
If you’ve ever wanted to sport one of those sloppy jail tattoos, but didn’t really want to go through the whole jail experience, we’ve got just the guy for you – he goes by “Synyster Ink” and he’s probably the world’s worst tattoo artist. I’m still not sure if this guy is a genius or […]
Woven Newspaper Portraits by Gugger Petter
Most people look at old newspapers as trash, but for artist Gugger Petter it’s a challenging medium for which she has the utmost respect. Using a special weaving technique, she’s able to take fragile newspapers and turned them into beautiful portraits. Although she considers the informative purpose of the newspaper important, Petter has been fascinated […]
Artist Makes Bullet Portraits of People Killed by Bullets
Whether in hunting or warfare, bullets are usually used for killing, but artist David Palmer has found a way to use these instruments of destruction to create beautiful celebrity portraits. John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were all great men, with one tragic thing in common – they were all killed by a […]
Man Spends 16 Years Building 6-Million-Matchstick Model
Bulgarian artist Plamen Ignatov, has dedicated the last 16 years of his life to making a detailed matchstick model of the Rila Monastery, from around 6 million matchsticks. Now, we’ve posted a lot of impressive matchstick creations, from the model of Minas Tirith built by Patrick Anton, to the matchstick fleet of David Reynolds, but I don’t […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #24
7 Creepiest Abandoned Japanese Love Hotels (Environmental Graffiti) The Cockiest Shrine Bangkok (Asia Obscura) A Cheap Way to Turn Your Room into a Shrine to Star Trek (Facebook) Woman Treats Pet Kangaroo Like Her Child (Huffington Post) No Pants Subway Ride 2012 (Laughing Squid) Unicorn Poop Cookies (Geekologie) Braille Burgers for the Visually Impaired (Global […]
The Mind-Blowing Wood-Carved Paintings of Kronid Gogolev
Kronid Gogolev is a master wood-carver who creates incredibly detailed artworks inspired by the rural and provincial life of Russia’s northern regions. For our artist of the day we chose to showcase Russian veteran wood-carver Kronid Gogolev, a man’s whose intricate wooden paintings are nothing short of awe-inspiring. Using simple tools, he is able to […]
Would You Believe These Goldfish Are Actually Painted?
Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori paints incredibly realistic three-dimensional goldfish embedded in layers of transparent resin. His artworks look more like photos of actual fish swimming peacefully in their little tanks. Riusuke Fukahori’s work could best be described as a a combination between painting and sculpture. The talented artist creates his “living masterpieces”using a complex process […]
Talented Italian Artist Paints with Wine
Wine has been the inspiration of many famous painters throughout the centuries, but Florentine artist Elisabetta Rogai is taking the relationship between the drink of Dionysus and art to a whole new level, by using wine as paint. Can a painting truly age? The concept was first explored English writer Oscar Wilde, in his book, “The […]
Joe Black’s Amazing Badge Mosaics
We’ve featured some pretty awesome mosaics here on Oddity Central, from Oksana Mas’ wooden egg mosaics, to the sweet jelly bean mosaics of Peter and Roger Rocha. But there are plenty of other incredibly talented artists out there who use the most unusual materials to create their art. Joe Black is one of them. Using […]
File Sharing Becomes Official Religion in Sweden
Kopimism – a belief in the sacred right to share files – has been recognized as an official religion in Sweden, at the end of last year. “Information is holy and copying is a sacrament. Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains, and the value multiplies through copying. Therefore, copying is […]
Juhyou – The Beautiful Snow Monsters of Japan
The words “beautiful” and “monster” don’t usually go well together, but when talking about a breathtaking natural wonder like the snow-and-ice-covered trees known as juhyou in Japan, we thought we’d make an exception. Every year, during the cold winter months, snow monsters make their appearance on the snow covered slopes of Japan’s northern prefectures. But instead […]