Chilean Finger Painter Creates Mind-Blowing Masterpieces in under Three Minutes
43-year-old Fabian Gaete is an artist who specializes in finger painting. He’s so good at his craft that he can actually create small finger oil paintings of breathtaking landscapes in under three minutes. Fabian currently works his magic on the streets of Puerto Montt, Chile, where his ‘live creations’ are sold at six euros each […]
Artist Turns the Streets of Toronto into Amazing Outdoor Art Gallery
Peter Gibson, a Montreal-based artist, began a campaign in 2001 to encourage the city to build more bike lanes. Although intended as an activism effort, the campaign was artistic in nature – it involved huge drawings on black asphalt, plain for everyone to see. A decade ago, around the same time, Gibson was actually charged […]
Eduardo Relero’s Mind-Blowing Optical Illusions
Argentinian street artist Eduardo Relero has the special talent of turning something as dull as pavements into incredible three-dimensional artworks that put people in danger of walking into lampposts starring at them. 48-year-old Eduardo Relero, who lives in Madrid, Spain, will spend up to two weeks working on one of his amazing 3D murals, which […]
Jim Power – The Mosaic Man of New York City
For the past 26 years, Jim Power, known by most as The Mosaic Man, has been decorating the light posts of New York’s East Village with intricate tile and mirror mosaics. And the homeless 64-year-old is still at it. “When I got into this, I was immortal all a sudden,” Power says about how he felt […]
Artist Creates Large Scale Portraits by Chipping Away the Plaster Off of Derelict Buildings
Can beauty be created out of destruction and chaos? Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto believes that it can, and offers his incredible chiseled portraits on the side of buildings, as proof. 23-year-old Farto, aka Vhils, grew up in Seixal, on the outskirts of Lisbon, and became interested in graffiti art during the late 1990s. Apparently, at […]
Delicious Street Art – Sugar Icing Murals by Shelley Miller
Montreal-based artist Shelley Miler uses sugar and edible blue paint to create incredibly detailed murals on the side of buildings. Her works are influenced by the cultures of the places in which she’s creating, and although they look as durable as ordinary murals, they simply wash away at first rain. Looking at Shelley Miller’s artworks […]
The Chalk Masterpieces of Rustam Valeev
Rustam Valeev is a 20-year-old street artist from the city of Sterlitamak, Russia. Using simple pieces of white chalk, he is able to create incredibly detailed portraits right on the pavement of his home city. Doodling with chalk was one of my favorite pastimes, as a kid. I remember I spent hours trying to draw simple things […]
Amazing Packaging Tape Portraits by Max Zorn
Ever been frustrated by sticky packing tape getting all over the place? I’ve been there. So when I learned about this artist who uses brown packing tape to create detailed works of art, I was seriously impressed. Artist Max Zorn creates street art consisting mainly of portraits. His only tools are rolls of packing tape […]
Chinese Artist Creates World’s Largest 3D Painting
“Lions Gate Gorge”, a giant 3D artwork created by artist Qi Xinghua has been acknowledged as the world’s largest 3D painting, by the Guinness Book of Records. The amazing painting, located in front of a shopping mall in Guangzhou, China, measures an impressive 23 meters wide and 32 meters long, on the ground, while the […]
The Wonderful World of Japanese Manhole Cover Art
Found across nearly 95% of Japan’s 1,780 municipalities, custom manhole covers have become an important part of national culture. The history of manhole cover art can be traced back to the 1980s, when cities began making custom covers with designs inspired by the region’s cultural identity (mythology, history, culture, etc.). Every one of the over […]
An Art Eggcident in Leeuwarden
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if giant eggs started falling from the sky, right in the middle of your city? Of course you haven’t, but Hank Hofstra has and he decided to show the whole world. Dutch artist Hank Hofstra was tired of looking at boring old Zaailand, the main square […]