shopping in EscherLand has it’s ups and downs by E Dubya
Via Boing Boing
Source: b3ta.com
There’s More to Life Than Banksy
Art by Borf. Photo: streetsy.com
Well smack me with a giant graffiti rat and call me gobsmacked, would you believe Banksy isn’t the only street artist with an ounce of talent? Here is a collection featuring 40 of some the finest spray-paintin’, stencil-makin’, sticker-stickin’ artists with rather unique interpretations on what constitutes public property.
Via streetsy
Not Impressed by Diamond Heads
Well here’s at least one rather well known bloke who won’t be dishing out millions anytime soon for Damien Hirst’s bisected animals.
Artist Brian Dettmer
From KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN:
Brian Dettmer sifts through stacks of antiquated books,
boxes of dusty cassette tapes, and piles of obsolete maps to uncover
the perfect source and subject for his conceptual explorations and
sculptural dissections. Dettmer alters pre-existing materials by
selectively removing and manipulating elements as a way to allow new
interpretations and ideas to emerge. With the precision of a surgeon,
Dettmer uses scalpels, tweezers, and other medical instruments to carve
into the surface of his found objects to reveal hidden meanings.
Brian Dettmer has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout North America and Europe. His work has been featured in several books and in 2007 he was selected as the featured artist by the Illinois Art Education Association, a program in which images of his work were incorporated into lesson plans for student art projects.
Dollar Bill Art
Well the mighty US dollar may be going down the tubes but at least it’s a currency that lends itself well to artistic expression.
Via Digg
Street Art Genius
I’m not sure if this is actually a photo (the kid in particular looks odd) but the concept is still pretty great.
Stan Lee Art Tribute
Art by Chris Reccardi
A great tribute to the legendary comic book artist Stan Lee.
Just a Simple Portrait?
Nice photo isn’t it? Yeah, except that it’s a detail from a painting.
The idea of this painting by artist Dru Blair was born out of a portrait workshop he taught in 2005. In that workshop, he presented his students with a photo he had taken of a local model. Their goal was to paint this photo and reproduce it as best as they could. After the class had ended, he decided to test the limits of his own painting skills and took it upon himself to recreate the photo, with pretty startling results.
The level of detail is simply stunning. For example, to reproduce the skin a combination of about 20 colors were used and even subtle visual elements in the original photo such as the halo effect on the earrings have been preserved in the painting. According the artist, 99% of the painting was done using airbrush, while other techniques involving colored pencil, x-acto knife and eraser were also used, especially to add realism to fine textures of the skin and hair.
Visit Dru Blair’s site here
