Michael Volpicelli’s Incredible Word Art
Young American artist Michael Volpicelli specializes in creating detailed portraits of people and animals exclusively out of written words related to them. After serving in Iraq and suffering a serious back injury, Volpicelli says art helped him recover and now he wants to share his talent with the world. Ever since he was just a […]
Artist Uses Recurring Words to Create Detailed Portraits
Vietnamese-born photographer and artist Huy Lam uses tiny 4 point type recurring words and phrases to create beautiful portraits of modern and historical icons. The Toronto-based artist has always been fascinated with the concept of perception, and the way we form opinions based on what we perceive as real. At a glance, his works look […]
Artist Creates Writers’ Portraits in Their Own Words
Ohio-based artist, John Sokol, has created a collection of portraits depicting some of the world’s most famous writers, using their own immortal words. Face reading takes a literal meaning when it comes to Sokol’s “Word Portraits” as he uses lines from some of their most popular works to outline their faces, and recreate lines and […]
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 […]