Francoise Nielly’s colorful portraits

Nielly is the canvas painter who creates this amazing colorful and massive portraits. The French artist paints with oils and her palette knife to portray exotic faces from black and white photos. Is very interesting watch her creating them in the video at the bottom of the post.

Illustrations by Gabriel Moreno

Gabriel Moreno is a illustrator, engraver and painter based in Madrid, graduated of Fine Arts in the University of Sevilla in ‘98. Since then he worked in different design studios and ad agencies in Andalusia. In June 2007 he begins to show his portfolio and after being selected amongst the 20 new talents of illustration, by the London based magazine Computer Arts, he begins his succesful carreer as an illustrator. At present he has worked with virtually every major national [...]

Surrealist Artworks by Pat Perry

Pat Perry is an artist / illustrator  from Michigan, United States. His artworks are surreal, and inspiration from where Pat lives, Michigan, camping and the woods. His favorite media is pen&ink, and paint, the only software he uses is Photoshop to manipulate color occasionally. Take a look at some of his Timelapse video Painting. > patperry.net > his blog

Kyle Lambert’s ‘finger painted’ iPad portrait of Beyonce

Digital and graphic artist Kyle Lambert has demonstrated the potential of Apple’s iPad by using his finger and a painting application to create a photo-realist portrait of Beyonce. And the artist from Altrincham, Cheshire, has also produced a video, above, which shows the six hour-work cut down to just two minutes of stop-motion photography. He created the portrait using the Brushes app, which he uploaded a month ago when iPad came out. He had previously used the same app to [...]

Coffee Kiss Sculpture

Beautiful sculpture created by Tsang Cheung Shing from Hong Kong. Yuanyang II sculpture was named after a popular beverage made from a mixture of coffee and Hong Kong-style milk tea. The name, which refers to Mandarin Duck, is a symbol of conjugal love in Chinese culture.

The Dark Side of The Portrait Photography by Tom Hoops

Tom Hoops, is a photographer originally from the UK, currently based in Asia. Unconventional subjects, heavy use of black and white and a magnetic dark mood in every image make Tom Hoops’ photographic style truly original and recognizable. tomhoops.com

Nick Lepard’s paintings

Nick Lepard is a young painter from Vancouver. His style reminds Jenny Saville’s work, but focused on portraits.

Urban Puns by Gabriel Mendez

Gabriel Mendez was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He recently graduated at Parsons School of Design in New York with a BFA in Photography. He currently lives and works between New York and Rio, photographing and exhibiting his personal projects, shooting for major corporations and contributing to magazines in the United States, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Argentina. NEW YORK SAO PAULO / LOS ANGELES RIO DE JAINERO

Etched Leather Artwork by Mark Evans

The artist Mark Evans creates portraits of famous faces, all hand-etched into leather hides. He creates artwork using knives as his ‘paintbrushes’. These leather works of art are incredible and impressively detailed. > markevansart.com

Colorful Photography by Iain Crawford

London based fashion photographer Iain Crawford’s portfolio is made of beautifully composed images with vibrant colors in movement. Iain Crawford has mastered the technique of high speed photography to achieve most of these effects. His photo are full of energy, color and emotion. > iaincrawford.com

Incredible Wooden Sculptures

Gehard Demetz creates amazing wooden sculptures for everyone to enjoy. The artist assembles each sculpture individually by combining wooden elements to create incredible works of art.

11 Amazing Horseshoe Sculptures

Tom Hill, a talented self-taught sculptor, uses recycled horseshoes to create incredible life-size animal sculptures. The artist utilizes a gas forge, anvil, hammer, as well as various welding techniques to heat and shape horseshoes into amazing sculptures. For more creative sculptures by Tom Hill, visit tomhillsculpture.com

14 Amazing Sculptures made from Used Tires

See what happens when old used car and motorcycle tires are turned into beautiful works of art, the results are truly remarkable… According to Korean artist Ji Yong Ho, recycled tires help capture the spirit of the animals because “rubber is very flexible, like skin, like muscles.” [image credit: Yong Ho Ji, Gana Art Gallery] [image credit: sweet-station] [image credit: thememagazine] [image credit: Yong Ho Ji, Gana Art Gallery] [image credit: jalopnik] [image credit: sweet-station] [image credit: hautenature] [image credit: [...]

Laurence Philomene, a young talented photographer

Like most other 16-year-old girls, Laurence Philomene is planning for college (Dawson College in Montreal to study photography). She enjoys long walks,and rollerskating in summer. She’s also a “big fan of reading and writing. Until last year, I used to write in my diary every day, but lately I’m just too tired and lazy for that.” But unlike most girls her age, Laurence Philomene is already a photographer with a global fan base and an acute eye for fashion. She [...]

Photo Collages by Lola Dupré

Lola Dupré is an artist from Glasgow who creates bizzare images, sometimes scattered, other times contorted. Her collages are all made by hand: She multiplies a photograph, then cuts it by hand using the scissors and re-assembles the bits to reshape the image and create something new. Sometimes she combines several images for one piece and occasionally her works include pen and paint. Check out her Flickr stream for more of her works.