The Three-Dimensional LEGO Portraits of Gerardo Pontiérr
Gerardo Pontiérr is an innovative Mexican artist who uses thousands of individual LEGO bricks to create incredible works of art, including detailed human portraits. Gerardo Pontiérr has been using LEGO for as long as he can remember. He first started playing with the colorful plastic bricks when he was only two years old and developed […]
Filipino “Pixel Art Wizard” Creates Incredible Pixelated Portraits Using Any Medium Imaginable
26-year-old Kel Cruz, an artist from Quezon City, Philippines, is being hailed as a “pixel art wizard”, for his mind-blowing pixelated portraits created with everything from bits of scotch tape and matchsticks, to fingerprints and blood stains. Cruz, who works as a male nurse, used to create pixelated art the old fashioned way, with a […]
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 […]
The Pixel Painter – 97-Year-Old Partially Blind Man Creates Masterpieces with Microsoft Paint
When 97-year-old Hal Lasko was diagnosed with wet macular degeneration, which weakens the sight in the center of the field of vision, he thought his art-making days were over. Then, he discovered the computer and Microsoft Paint, which help him zoom in close enough to see every pixel, and got a second chance at making art history. […]
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 […]
Artist Creates Incredible Portraits Out of Thousands of Tiny Colored Paper Dots
I love it when artists go to great lengths to create extraordinary art. Case in point, Nikki Douthwaite, a young British artist who uses tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of tiny paper dots to assemble incredibly detailed artworks. Nikki Douthwaite is a master of dot art. She uses colored dots produced by a hole punch, and […]
Artist Creates Pixelated Portraits Out of Computer Keys and Buttons
Australian artist Guy Withby, aka WorkbyKnight (WBK), creates portraits of musicians, political figures and other celebrities by assembling hundreds of buttons from computer keyboards, typewriters and phones. “”The hand made days are gone. Our food, our clothes, our furniture, our homes, our lives are manufactured. Life is factory made.” WBK is factory made art for […]