Artist Creates Black Eyed Peas Portrait of Black Eyes Peas Member
To tell you the truth I often wondered why no one bothered to create a portrait of the Black Eyed Peas using black eyed peas, before. We’ve seen all kinds of weird portraits, like those made of toast, broken vinyl or bottle caps, so a black eyed peas portrait of the Black Eyed Peas seemed […]
The Realistic Wire Sculptures of Shi Jindian
They might look like computer-generated images, but Shi Jindian’s works are so real you can touch them. Using simple steel wire, the Chinese artist is able to create almost perfect replicas of anything from musical instruments to motorcycles. For years, Shi Jindian looked for a material “that was brand new, completely untraditional” and when he […]
Airigami – Artist Recreates Famous Icons Using Balloons
If you thought the balloon animals some clowns make at kids’ birthday parties were impressive, wait till you see what Larry Moss can do. The Rochester-based artist creates Airigami, which translates as the fine art of folding air, and his fragile masterpieces are by far the most detailed balloon sculptures I have ever seen. Moss […]
Lily Allen Portrait Is Made of Real Lilies
British singer Lily Allen is getting married this Saturday and London florist McQueens wanted to celebrate the event by creating a unique portrait of the artist, using actual lilies. A team of six flower experts worked nine hours arranging the Asiatic lily blossoms into an Andy Warhol-style portrait of the acclaimed artist. The one-of-a-kind floral […]
Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Cypresses Recreated with 8,000 Living Plants
General Electric has teamed up with London’s National Gallery to create a living version Van Gogh’s A Wheatfield with Cypresses from 8,000 plants. The famous painting, originally created in 1889, was chose for its strong colors that could be effectively reproduced with living plants. 26 different varieties were used for this amazing eco-installation and the […]
Designer Creates Fashion Items from Used Tea Bags
Grace Robinson, 52, from Cambridgeshire, England, takes used tea bags and sews them into fashionable dresses, shoes and accessories. Grace has been drinking tea for most of her life and she’s been recycling used tea bags for over 10 years now. The process is quite simple: she drinks tea every day, saves the tea bags […]
Rocky Fiore – The Spiderweb Artist
Considered to be America’s no. 1 spiderweb artist, Emil Fiore, known as Rocky, collects various kinds of spiderwebs and uses them to create unique artworks which he sells on his website, Whirled Wide Webs. Rocky, 58, says he read about how to catch spiderwebs when he was just a kid. The little Golden Guide suggested […]
Oksana Mas’ Breathtaking Wooden Egg Mosaics for the Venice Biennale
Oksana Mas is a brilliant Ukrainian artist who uses thousands of hand-painted wooden eggs to create incredible mosaics that simply take your breath away. The first time I read about Oksana Mas was in January of 2010, when she created this unique portrait of the Virgin Mary using 15,000 wooden eggs. It took her nine […]
Painting Horse Gets His Own Art Gallery Exhibition
Napoleon, a four-year-old Dutch Friesian stallion, has developed a talent for painting after working with artist Sergio Caballero and his worked are now on display at the Mutt art gallery, in Barcelona. The Dutch Friesian horse breed is famous for being very responsive to dressage, but I doubt too many people thought a horse could […]
French Artists Create World’s Largest Comic Strip
On Saturday, May 28th, a team of 11 writers and 111 designers have created the world’s largest comic strip, stretching 1 kilometer along the banks of the Rhone River, in Lyon, France. Work on the world’s largest comic strip began Friday night, when students from the Emile Cohl Drawing School, in Lyon, were tasked with […]
Thai Temple Interior Inspired by Modern Sci-Fi Movies
You’d probably expect temple murals to depict religious themes and Buddha, but the Wat Rong Khun temple in Chiang Rai isn’t your ordinary holy place, as you can easily tell by the murals. According to Wikipedia, in 1997, Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat volunteered to carry out the work for Wat Rong Khun’s ubosol (the temple’s […]
Commemorative Portrait Made from 13,138 Dice
To commemorate the death of his friend, Canadian artist and designer, Tobias Wong, Frederick McSwain has created a giant portrait of him, from 13,138 dice. The artist says: The idea of a die itself was appropriate—the randomness of life. It felt like [a medium] he would use. Because [Tobias] was a very street-level force, I […]
Artist Makes Intricate Cutouts from Hardcore Adult Magazines
Can pornography be art? That’s the question artist Tom Gallant is trying to answer through his series of beautiful paper cutouts made from archived adult magazines. Brussels-based Tom Gallant describes his unique art as a visual language “dealing with a private matter in a very public way”. Using a very sharp scalpel, he cuts into […]
Pimple Popper Ring Is One Disgusting Piece of Jewelry
I’ve seen some pretty bizarre jewelry since I started writing for OC, from rings made from human teeth and hair, to insect accessories, but this Pimple Popper ring is the most disgusting one yet. For reasons I cannot understand, some people just love to pop pimples, and Etsy user Winona Johnson is one of these […]
Hand-Stitched Vogue Covers By Inge Jacobsen
UK-based artist Inge Jacobsen has found an ingenious way of turning commercial images like the covers of Vogue Magazine into unique works of art. In an interview with Global Grind, the 24-year-old artist explains why she chose Vogue for her latest embroidery project: I’ve always had a thing for Vogue ever since I was a […]