Keng Lye’s Three-Dimensional Resin Paintings Look Incredibly Life-Like
Singapore-based artist Keng Lye uses his phenomenal sense of perspective to create incredibly realistic animals by painting in layers of epoxy resin and acrylic paint. His series, called Alive Without Breath, features stunning works that blur the line between what is real and what is not. The time-consuming process used by Keng Lye to create his stunningly-realistic artworks […]
Picture-Perfect Pencil Drawn Portraits by Olga Larionova
In this digital era, it’s amazing to see artists like Olga “Melamory” Larionova using a primitive tool like the graphite pencil to create stunning portraits that rival high-resolution black-and-white photographs. I’ve always been fascinated by hyperrealist art, but the level of detail in Olga Larionova’s pencil artworks just blew me away. Getting every little feature […]
Wacky Croatian Artist Draws Landscapes with an Industrial Angle Grinder
You could say Albert Krtalic is a cut above other artists. The Croatian creator uses an industrial angle grinder to engrave beautiful landscapes on ceramic canvases. He recently showcased his original works during a exhibition in his home town of Makarska. The industrial angle grinder isn’t exactly what you would call an artistic tool, but […]
Talented Artist Paints on Butterfly Wings
Inspired by the beauty and history of his home town of Istanbul, Turkish artist Hasan Kale paints stunning miniature portraits on all kinds of unusual canvases, from butterfly wings to coffee beans and even tiny pepper seeds. No surface is to small for 53-year-old Hasan Kale. Ever since the 1980s, this Turkish micro art master […]
Modern Espressionist Creates Amazing Latte Portraits
New York City barista Mike Breach uses a toothpick as a brush to create beautiful portraits into his tasty lattes. From Albert Einstein to rapper Jay Z, it seems like there’s no face this self-proclaimed “espressionist” can’t draw on coffee. Today Mike Breach is well-known coffee artist, with a big following on social sharing sites […]
Cheryl Kelley’s Photo-Realistic Paintings of Classic Muscle Cars Will Blow Your Mind
They look like high-definition photos enhanced in Photoshop, but in reality Cheryl Kelley’s muscle-car inspired artworks are just really good hyper-realistic paintings. Using high-gloss oil paints the Texas-based artist manages to capture the beauty of these iconic vehicles from a bygone era better than any camera ever could. Cheryl Kelley has always been drawn to […]
Artist Creates Creepy Firearm Models from Animal Bones
New Zealand-based artist Bruce Mahalski collects animal bones and uses them to assemble creepy yet realistic-looking models of various firearms, including a Colt pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle. Mahalski started collecting animal bones at a very young age. His parents were both scientists with collections of their own, and traveling all over the world […]
Everything – A Unique Fragrance That Smells Like All the 1,400 Perfumes Launched Last Year
Created by Dutch art duo Lenert and Sander, Everything is a unique perfume made up of 1,400 samples of every new perfume launched in 2012. Can you imagine what it smells like? The perfume business is doing better than ever, and it seems like every time you open a magazine or turn on your TV […]
Svetlana Kolosova’s Fairy Tale Palm Paintings Bring Back Warm Memories
Inspired by the immortal fairy tales of famous writers like Hans Christian Andersen and Antoine de Saint Exupery, Russian artist Svetlana Kolosova paints heart-warming ephemeral works of art on the palms of her hands. Svetlana Kolosova has always had a thing for the arts, but taking care of her four children and focusing on household […]
Needle-Poked Canvas Holes Reveal Beautiful Portraits
Tel-Aviv-based artist Michal Taharlev creates stunningly-beautiful artworks inspired by old family photos without using brushes or writing tools. Armed only with a sharp needle and mountains of patience, she pokes the canvas thousands of times to reveal heart-warming images. Inspired by pointilism, the painting technique that uses dots to trick the eye into making up […]
Beautiful Shadow Sculptures Made from Trash and Scrap Metal
Dutch artist Diet Wiegman has spent the last 50 years carefully arranging pieces of trash and scrap metal to create incredibly beautiful and detailed shadow sculptures. Looking at Diet Wiegman’s piles of junk you’re left wondering why on Earth would anyone think of them as art. There’s really nothing special about them, just a combination of scrap […]
Awe-Inspiring Pixelated Portraits Made from Paint-Injected Bubble Wrap
Canadian artist Bradley Hart creates pixelated photo-realistic images by injecting bubble wrap with acrylic paint. The process it’s considerably more complicated and time-consuming than it sounds, but the end result is simply mind-blowing. Pixelated portraits are nothing new. In the years since I started Oddity Central I’ve seen this kind of artworks created with everything from thousands […]
Croatian Modeler Builds Incredibly Accurate Replicas of Industrial Vehicles from Thousands of Matchsticks
20-year old Djordje Balac spends weeks, sometimes months at a time working from sunrise to midnight creating realistic models of industrial vehicles like trucks, excavators and cranes exclusively from matchsticks and glue. Djordje’s passion for making wooden models dates back to general school. At first he cut all the necessary parts from pieces of wood, […]
Sculptor’s Beautiful Tree Carvings Reveal Their Inner Spirits
The Tree Spirits of Saint Simmons Island are one of the most fascinating roadside attractions in North America. Carved into dozens of live oaks and hardwoods, the mysterious wise faces that seem to reveal the trees’ inner spirits are the work of local sculptor Keith Jennings. Jennings started his Tree Spirits project in 1982, as a hobby. […]
The Impossible-Looking Pencil Sculptures of Cerkahegyzo
Cerkahegyzo is a Hungarian artist who transforms common pencils into seemingly digitally-altered works of art. In reality, the miniature sculptor uses just a few basic tools and mountains of patience to create these intricate masterpieces. Believe it or not, Budapest-based artist Cerkahegyzo manages to produce all these unreal artworks out of a single pencil. Some of his works […]