Innovative Japanese Service Lets You Rent Paintings Instead of Buying Them
Buying works of art can become an expensive habit, but what if you didn’t have to buy the artworks and instead lease them for however long you wanted? That’s the premise of an ingenious Japanese business that lets people rent paintings. Casie is an innovative service that connects painters and art lovers in a whole […]
Russian Art Lover Recreates a Classic Painting Every Day
Inspired by the popular #gettychallenge a Russian woman has been using various household items and her own makeup skills to recreate over 100 classic paintings to great effect. Back in late March, Saint Petersburg-based art lover Liza Yukhnyova accepted the Getty Museum’s #gettychallenge as a fun way to pass the time during quarantine, only she […]
Your Eyes See Photos, But These Are Really Hand-Painted Masterpieces
South Korean artist Young-Sung Kim has a very special talent, he can paint photographs. That may sound like a gross exaggeration, but just take a look at what he’s able produce with a paintbrush, some acrylic and mountains of talent and patience. The old saying, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’, doesn’t really apply to […]
The Wood Veneer Paintings of Rob Milam
Using an artform known as “marquetry”, Rob Milam creates beautiful paintings with wood veneer. Marquetry is defined as the composition of an image using natural wood veneer, cut into pieces and glued on a substrate, sort of like a puzzle. Every one of Rob Milam’s marquetry paintings start with a photograph. He uses Photoshop to […]