Mind-Blowing Charcoal Mural Is a Finger-Painting Masterpiece
Fingers are definitely not the weirdest thing we’ve seen artists paint with (just check out this tongue painter and the girl who paints with gravity) but I had no idea someone could use their fingertips to create such detailed work. We first featured Judith Braun’s finger paintings a few months ago, but while her artworks […]
Mind-Blowing Portrait Created from Thousands of Coffee Stains
Just weeks after she took the Internet by storm with her incredible portrait of Yao Ming, created only with a basketball and red paint, Malaysian artist Hong Yi strikes again, this time with a realistic rendition of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou made with coffee stains. The young artist begins her unusual creative process by taking […]
Mind-Blowing Animal Artworks Painted with Heat
Self-taught artist Julie Bender is a master of pyrography – the art of drawing with heat. She combines this artistic talent with her love for animals and nature to create incredibly detailed sepia works of art. Pyrography, the art of burning or scorching a natural surface like wood or leather with a heated tip or wire […]
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 […]
Design Duo Create Mind-Blowing Thread and Nail Portraits
Pamela Campagna and husband Thomas Scheiderbauer create intricate thread and nail portraits based on old family photographs. It’s amazing how someone can recreate organic shapes so well from thousands of angles created with nails and thread. Designers Pamela Campagna and Thomas Scheiderbauer take up to a month to work on each of their complicated artworks, […]
Artist Creates Mind-Blowing Mosaics from Thousands of Naked Bodies
New York-based artist Angelo Musco is taking the photography world by storm with his incredible mosaics made up of thousands of naked bodies. Touching themes like birth, procreation and gestation, Angelo Musco creates complex structures of the natural world from an ant colony and beehive to a school of fish, using thousands of human bodies. “A […]
Mind-Blowing Painted Illusions by Oleg Shuplyak
Oleg Shuplyak is a talented Ukrainian oil painter who uses hidden images to turn his artworks into mind-blowing optical illusions. Born on September 23, 1967, in the Ternopol region of the Ukraine, Oleg Shuplyak studied architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, but his passion was always painting. Although he creates all kinds of beautiful paintings, it […]
Jason Sho Green’s Mind-Blowing Doodle Portraits
Jason Sho Green uses a simple ball-point pen to create incredibly intricate portraits that are actually made of other smaller drawings. Whether we’re good at it or not, we all like to doodle, but American artist Jason Sho Green has taken the pastime to a whole new level with his amazing doodle portraits that look like […]
Cake Boss Star Creates Mind-Blowing Bumblebee Cake
It was definitely not a piece of cake, but Cake Boss star, Buddy Valastro, managed to create an incredibly realistic cake shaped like the Chevrolet Camaro-shifting Autobot, Bumblebee. With Transformers 3: Dark Side of the Moon scheduled for a July 1st release, the people at General Motors though this was a good pretext to gain […]
The Mind-Blowing Book Carvings of Long Bin-Chen
You’ve probably seen book carvings before, but Long Bin-Chen’s works are definitely in a league of their own. Taiwanese artist Long Bin-Chen uses discarded old books to create incredibly detailed sculptures that look like they’re made of marble or wood. Although all his artworks are made out of several books, he carves them all in […]
Mind-Blowing Embroidered Portraits by Daniel Kornrumpf
We’ve featured some truly magnificent pieces of embroidery on Oddity Central, but Daniel Kornrumpf’s intricate portrait are simply breathtaking. A true master with the needle, Philadelphia-based artist Daniel Kornrumpf creates extraordinary embroidered portraits that look a lot like real paintings. Even more surprising is the size of these amazing artworks. While they may look like […]
The Mind-Blowing Origami Sculptures of Eric Joisel
Eric Joisel was one of the most gifted origami artists the world has ever seen, and even though he recently passed away, he lives on through his amazing folded paper masterpieces. Eric Joisel dedicated most of his life to art, in many of its forms, including drawing and sculpting. He took up origami in 1983, […]
The Ultra-Realistic Graffiti Portraits of Jorit Agoch
Jorit Agoch is a famous Italian graffiti artist known for his clean style and large-scale, ultra-realistic portrait murals painted on the side of buildings all over the world. Over the last 16 years, we’ve featured many impressive graffiti artworks, like the mind-boggling optical illusions of Portuguese street artist Odeith, the ingenious portraits of Fabio Gomes […]
Graffiti Artist Creates Intriguing Optical Illusions
Cosimo Caiffa is a talented Italian graffiti artist who uses spray cans to create some of the most fascinating street art illusions you’ve ever seen! 44-year-old Caiffa, who also goes by ‘Cheone’, paints most of his impressive artworks in his hometown of Nerviano, near Milan. Most of his street art projects not only integrate perfectly […]
Pencil Master Creates Mindblowingly Realistic Sneaker Drawings
Steph Morris is an insanely talented UK artist who specializes in hyper-realistic drawings of sneakers. Her work is so detailed that even closeups of the drawings are hard to distinguish from the real thing. When it comes to sneaker drawings, Manchester-born Steph Morris is renowned for her unrivaled realism. She has always had a thing […]