Artist Turns Human Bodies into Living Canvases for Her Beautiful Animal Portraits
There’s more to the animal portraits painted by Florida-based artist Shannon Holt than meets the eye. If you look carefully, you’ll notice the canvases are actually human bodies contorted into just the right position. The expert body-painter spends between 6 and 12 hours instructing the models to adopt the right stance and painstakingly painting every […]
Awesome Pixelated Portraits Made with Thousands of Expertly Arranged Paint Swatches
Peter Combe is a San Francisco-based visual artist who specializes in creating three-dimensional artwork using nothing but paint swatches, hand-punched into small disks. Using his special technique, Combe creates stunning pieces that range from abstract pattern-based compositions to highly realistic pixelated portraits with a vintage photograph-like quality. Combe has a huge collection of paint swatch […]
Artist Draws Detailed Portraits Using Only a Typewriter
While most graphic designers use high-tech software to create images, Álvaro Franca has chosen to return to the basics. Using a vintage typewriter, he creates incredibly detailed portraits of his favorite authors. Franca begins the process by creating a reference image on his computer. This allows him to plan out the areas of light and […]
Amazingly Talented Barber Trims Celebrity Portraits on the Heads of His Clients
When you go to Rob Ferrel for a haircut, you know you’re in for something really special. The professional hair artist can sculpt logos, designs, patterns and even celebrity faces on a head of hair. He runs his own salon called Rob the Original Barbershop, in San Antonio, where he works his magic every single […]
Photo-Like Monochromatic Portraits Created with Thousands of Tiny Holes
Norwegian artist Anne-Karin Furunes’ portraits might look like black-and-white photographs, but that’s just your eyes playing tricks on you. They’re actually paintings made with of thousands and thousands of tiny holes. Anne creates them by punching perforations into large canvases, creating the effect of monochromatic hyper-realistic portraits. Anne has been perfecting her unique perforation technique […]
Artist Creates Celebrity Portraits with Thousands of Suspended Buttons
Artist Augusto Esquivel is an expert at transforming mundane objects into spectacular works of art. One of his specialties is working with standard sewing buttons, which he uses to create stunning, larger-than-life celebrity portraits. Augusto’s technique is as tedious as you’d imagine – it’s not an easy arranging thousands of buttons to form an easily […]
Hong Yi Strikes Again with Football Painted Portraits of Popular World Cup Players
Shanghai-based artist Hong Yi, a.k.a. ‘Red’, has combined her love for football and art in a very unique way – she recently painted a massive portrait of three superstars of the 2014 FIFA World Cup – Ronaldo, Neymar and Messi – by dribbling a paint-covered football on a canvas. Red didn’t use a single paintbrush […]
Surreal Animal Portraits Expertly Painted on Wild Turkey Feathers
If you thought painting bird feathers was difficult, wait till you check out this super-talented artist who paints on bird feathers. That’s right, Connecticut-based Brenda Lyons paints the most stunning animal portraits using moulted turkey feathers as a canvas, as a part of her ongoing series called ‘Painted Feathers’. I seriously appreciate the kind of […]
20-Year-Old Artist Creates the Most Realistic Colored Pencil Portraits You’ve Ever Seen
I must admit, ever since I found artist Heather Rooney’s YouTube channel, I’ve been hooked! She posts all these time lapse videos of her incredibly realistic colored pencil portraits, and, well, you have to see what she’s capable of doing with a few colored pencils. Watching her draw is just as fascinating as looking at […]
The Picture-Perfect Pencil Portraits of Natasha Kinaru
Natasha Kinaru is a beautiful, young Russian artist whose pencil and pastel drawings of celebrities are incredibly realistic. So realistic, that they are often confused with digitally ‘enhanced’ photographs. “I am inspired by people, so different, beautiful, interesting, mysterious, bright, talented,” said 21-year-old Natasha. “Drawing allows you to see them closer, try to guess the […]
Artist Uses Ashes of the Deceased to Paint Portraits of Them
Adam Brown, a Missouri-based painter, is offering his clients a unique way to connect with their deceased loved ones. He mixes the ashes with paint pigments and uses them to create portraits of the dead, as a ‘lasting memory’. The 32-year-old artist said: “It hit me that having ashes in an urn on a fireplace […]
Artist Sews Portraits of His Family into the Palm of His Hand
This has to be one of the most bizarre art-forms I’ve ever seen. Spanish artist David Cata has taken ‘hand embroidery’ to a whole new level. Using needle-and-thread, he embroiders portraits of people who have impacted his life on to his palms. He calls the series of works ‘a flor de piel’, which means ‘Under […]
David Foster’s Amazing Hammered-Nail Portraits
Who would have ever thought that fine art could be created out of something as crude as a hammer and a bunch of nails? I’ve seen several art forms made using Pointillism before, but former architect David Foster’s work is quite unique. At first glance, it’s hard to believe that his breathtaking portraits were once […]
Artist Sculpts Celebrity Portraits in Expensive Lipstick
Ever dreamed of having your face immortalized in expensive lipstick? No, well, you can, thanks to Singapore-based artist May Sum, who has made a name for himself by carving expensive lipsticks from top brands in the makeup industry into detailed busts of various celebrities, from Lady Gaga to Audrey Hepburn. Some women would kill for […]
Incredibly Detailed Portraits Created Exclusively with Black Ink Dots
Armed with nerves of steels, artist Pablo Jurado Ruiz creates incredibly detailed portraits by adding thousands of tiny ink dots to a white canvas. Talking about his creative approach, he explains: “With a creative concept based primarily on human representation, I try to tell stories through a minimalist and subtle vision. My current work is […]