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Brilliant Oil Paintings by Laurie Masters

Laurie Masters was born in Peterborough, Ontario, May 4, 1976. Having concentrated on music during her school years and completing an honours degree in Mathematics at Trent University, it wasn’t until 2001 that she picked up a paint brush and started to paint. Since then, Laurie has not stopped painting. Aside from a couple years [...]

Custom chalk lettering by Dana Tanamachi

Dana Tanamachi is a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer who hails from the Lone Star State, but currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She enjoys crafting, reading, walking, and especially listening to Country music from the 1990s.In June 2008, Dana moved to New York City and began working at SpotCo designing posters for Broadway [...]

New Pencil vs Camera works for West Africa

Belgian Ben Heine busted out into the art scene back in April 2010 when his incredibly creative series, Pencil Vs Camera, captured the hearts and minds of people from all around the world.Just recently, Heine made 10 pieces for the Art Official Concept, an art gallery in Cape Verde, West Africa. The Republic of Cape [...]

Really Amazing Sketch Notes by Amanda Wright

If you ever thought that your work or school notes had to be boring, then take a look at these by Amanda Wright. The London-based user experience designer opens up her sketchbook, not only sharing with us some interesting facts in an amusing way, more importantly, she also gives us a different perspective and a [...]

Bizarre Black and White Portraits

Black and white photography is powerful and emotional. UK-based photographer Lee Jeffries proves this point with his spectacular shots. While he began his photography career taking pictures of sporting events, he soon found out that it wasn’t his calling. “A chance encounter with a young homeless girl in the streets of London,” his website shares, [...]

Feel New Life into Old Globes

Wendy Gold takes old, vintage globes and transforms them into beautiful and whimsical works of art. Called ImagineNations, these globes would be otherwise abandoned, thrown into some old, dusty attic because they’re no longer geographically accurate.

Unbelievable Paintings by Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes‘ style is reminiscent of the diagrammatic vocabulary found in scientific textbook illustrations that often express through a detached and clinical viewpoint an empirical representation of the natural world. Assembled into this virtual stage set are references to contemporary events along with images and themes from his personal mythology. Josh Keyes’ work is a [...]

Adorable Portraits Made out of Words

Juan Osborne doesn’t just create portraits using type, the Spanish artist only chooses words relevant to that particular subject. In fact, he’s known to use over 200,000 words for one piece!”Words are powerful, they go straight into the human mind and really add something to my pictures that you can’ get from a regular picture [...]

Amazing War Inspired Drawings

War is always a horrible thing, but it’s also a great inspiration to many artists out there, and speaking about art that is inspired by war, today we have some examples this kind of art. Today we have some drawings that we want to share with you, and all these drawings are inspired by war. [...]

The Power of Art: Posters Featuring Bolshevik Propaganda in Soviet Union

Art has been used as a tool of propaganda from its very beginnings. This hasn’t changed today, neither it will change ever. Actually, we could say that today, as never before, this kind of propaganda has reached the highest levels of its efficiency. When Bolsheviks took the rule after the revolution in Soviet Union, they [...]