Juan Osborne’s Pictures Really Are Worth a Thousand Words
It’s said a picture is worth a thousand words and in the case of Spanish amateur artist Juan Osborne that is literally how things stand. Using several hundred thousand words he manages to recreate famous images and icons that have put their mark on the world. Osborne searches for the most popular words associated with […]
Eggshelland – A Colorful Easter Tradition Made of Eggshells
One of the world’s most impressive Easter traditions, Eggshelland features a number of colorful lawn mosaics made of Easter eggshells. Every year, Ron and Betty Manolio, from Lyndhurst, Ohio, create a set of intricate eggshell mosaics right on their front lawn. It all started back in 1957, when Ron’s mother used 750 colored eggshells to […]
Jane Perkins Proves One Man’s Junk Is Indeed Another’s Treasure
British artist Jane Perkins creates beautiful works of art using everyday objects like marbles, toys or buttons picked up from recycling centers, second-hand shops and junkyards. Jane Perkins worked as a nurse for 17 years, in a London hospital, before she decided to explore her artistic talents and got a degree in textiles in 2006. […]
Man Builds 100-Foot Replica of the Titanic in His Backyard
Scotish ship enthusiast Stan Fraser has spent eleven years of his life building a 100-foot model of the Titanic, in his own backyard. The 46-year-old former lighting engineer has always had a thing for the Titanic as well as maritime items in general, and his house in Inverness is filled with life jackets, models of […]
Retired Farmer Spends 30 Years Building Scale Model of Herod’s Temple
Alec Garrard, an 80-year-old retired farmer from Norfolk, England, has spent the last thirty years working on a 1:100 scale model of Herod’s Biblical Temple. Mr. Garrard has liked creating models all his life, but as he was getting older, he began thinking about a single big project that would see him through to the […]
Cancer Survivor Makes Drug Jewelry to Pay off Medical Debt
Susan Braig, a 61-year-old cancer survivor from Altadena, California, began making jewelry from medication as a form of therapy, but now sells her creations to pay her medical bills. Susan was diagnosed with breast cancer and started chemotherapy in 2004. She remembers she bought her first round of medicine our of her own pocket; it […]
Designer Makes Impressive Gown from Discarded Children’s Books
Boston-based fashion designer Ryan Novelline has created an amazing fairytale dress using only pages from children’s Golden Books. If you had any doubts regarding human creativity being endless, this unique creation will definitely make you a believer. Now I’m not very big on fashion, but I know impressive when I see it, and Ryan Novelline’s […]
Indian Woodcarvers Give the Skateboard an Oriental Twist
What do you get if you combine the old fashioned skateboard with the talent of a dozen Indian woodcarvers? The answer can be admired in the photos below. All commercially-available skateboards are artistically designed, but companies usually opt for spray paint, abstract graphics and prints to personalize the board. German curator Tobias Megerle teamed up with […]
Marcus Levine’s Hammered Nail Art
Using up to 50,000 rigid steel nails to recreate something as fragile and curvy as the human body isn’t the easiest of tasks, but artist Marcus Levine manages to to it without as much as a sketch. The British artist’s road to his brilliant career has been anything but predictable. Born in Yorkshire, Levine attended […]
Artist Creates Dog Portraits from Recycled Magazine Photos
San Francisco-based Samuel Price uses pieces of photographs he finds in old, discarded magazines to create intricate portraits of man’s best friend. Sam Price’s career as a collage artist began when he was too young to afford paints and would tear up magazine and newspaper pages and glue them to a canvas. He did it […]
Incredible Miniatures Carved from Matchsticks
Artists have been using matchsticks as a medium for their art for a while now. Some use thousands of matches to create amazing wooden models, others use them to create colorful sculptures, or decorate their homes in a unique way, but I’ve never seen detailed matchstick miniature sculptures before. I saw some interesting photos of […]
Gary LeMaster – The Incredible Eggshell Sculptor
Gary LeMaster has to be one of the world’s most gifted sculptors. After all, how many people can take an egg and turn it into an intricate and detailed work of art? Born in New Zealand, where his father, a US soldier, was stationed at the time, Gary showed a passion for the arts, at […]
The Mind Blowing Paper Collages of Nathalie Boutté
Nathalie Boutté is a talented French artist who uses thousands of simple strips of paper to create impressive collages. Born in 1967, Nathalie lives and works in Montreuill, near Paris, where she experiments with all kinds of types of paper, to obtain the results she desires. She has always been passionate about paper, and has […]
Cube Works Makes Twisted Artworks from Dozens of Rubik’s Cubes
Solving a Rubik’s Cube is pretty tricky, but using dozens of them to create portraits of famous figures and recreate artistic masterpieces sounds even harder. Toronto-based Cube Works Studio is a collaboration of graphic architects and “cubers” who use the popular Rubik’s Cube to create an art form that is retro yet avant-garde. Throughout the […]
Licorice Mosaic Portraits by Jason Mecier
Jason Mecier is a famous mosaic artist who uses all kinds of materials, from sweets to pills and recyclable junk, to create incredibly detailed portraits of celebrities and pop icons. Looking at the masterpieces Jason Mecier creates, you’d find it hard to believe he has no formal art training, but he is indeed a self-taught […]