Paint splatters and graffiti might look like accidents or vandalism to some people, but the eye-catching, genre-bending artwork of Rowena Martinich is redefining ideas of art and beauty, while answering one very important question; what would it look like if Warhol, Pollock, and Picasso got together and went wild on a wall?
Win up to $500 in Lytro’s first International Photography Contest! Submit your pictures now for Lytro’s first international light field photography contest. Use any of the Lytro camera’s features, including Living Filters and Perspective Shiftas as well as Manual Controls to show your creativity. Five finalist will each win $250. One finalist will take the grand prize, doubling the cash prize to $500 and garnering an invitation to Lytro’s Pro Shooter Program. Best of all, no entry fee.
Some artists choose to drink alcohol while they work, but British artist Carne Griffiths chooses to use vodka, brandy, and tea traditional paint to create the unique colors and textures of her eye-catching and enthralling work.
Celebrity portraits have always captured the attention of the world, but San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier has built his career by making portraits that tell the real story behind celebrities. His mosaic portraits are made of candy, pills, lipstick, cell phones, cigarette butts, and every other object (or substance) in between.
For many people, myself included, an Etch A Sketch toy is nothing more than a frustrating memory from childhood that convinced me I would never become an artist. But artist Bryan Madden has used those two maddening dials to create unbelievable cityscapes and portraits in his own version of Etch Pop Art. No Shaking Allowed!
The popular decorative trend of displaying beautiful taxidermy animals
throughout the home hasn’t slowed in 2013.
Inventors were quick to jump at the chance to get a piece of the
taxidermy décor craze by creating stunningly impressive one-of-a-kind
animal-inspired inventions that are guaranteed to be completely cruelty
free. My top five animal-free taxidermy innovations are just a click away!
If artists are the guardians of culture, than Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer takes that title quite seriously. His eerily beautiful and mysterious "Guardians of Time" sculptures have travelled the world and captured the attention and imagination of millions.
If artists are the guardians of culture, than Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer takes that title quite seriously. His eerily beautiful and mysterious "Guardians of Time" sculptures have travelled the world and captured the attention and imagination of millions.
Google Treasure Maps allow you to view the world as if it was in a mystical movie with pirates, skull islands and treasures to be found, complete with an appropriate series of Street View photos.
I bet ‘Mr. Peeps’ never dreamed 60 years ago that his yummy, gooey,
marshmallow treats would be fodder for a cult. I bet he never thought
that in 60 years there would be as many as 40 different Peeps Shows
throughout the United States to commemorate Easter. And the thousands
of talented Peep artists who create diaramas where Peeps play famous
characters such as Pi or Pope Francis. Well, Mr. Peeps, aka Bob Born,
must be eating these celebrations up – so to speak.
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