Lifelike Paintings of Swimmers by Gustavo Silva Nuñez

Before you dive in... Painter poses with his lifelike portraits of swimmers giving the illusion that he is about to jump in too.

An artist has brought his paintings of swimmers to life by posing with them playfully, giving the illusion that he is about to dive into the water.Gustavo Silva Nuñez, an artist based in Valencia, Venezuela, creates incredibly lifelike paintings of people swimming in water, his use of light and reflections making them appear three-dimensional.To add to the realism, he poses next to the paintings in strikingly interactive ways, making it look as though he is grabbing onto the swimmers' limbs or shielding himself from their splashes.

In one of the shots, Mr Nuñez is pictured crouching on the floor next to one of his paintings, staring into the water as though he is about to jump in. At first glance, it looks like a picture of a woman coming up for air in a small indoor pool.

Another photo sees the artist painting tattoos onto the arm of a man he is painting. He pretends to hold onto the man's other arm, so that the line between art and reality becomes ever more blurred. In the images, Mr Nuñez, who has more than 62,000 followers on Instagram, looks as though he is right there with his subjects

Iraqi artist paints his paintings with Ice Cream

The Iraqi artist "Osman Imad Tohme" became famous on social networking sites because of his innovative idea in the drawing, and his page on "Facebook" and Instgram received thousands of views, after a popular site published an article about him, pointing out innovative pictures of his paintings, drawn by using "Ice Cream. ". Replacing the drawing with water colors, in the melted ice cream.

Uncomfortable Creations of Everyday Objects By Katerina Kamprani

Product designers are often preoccupied with making objects that are as useful as possible. However, Katerina Kamprani, an Athens-based architect and 3d modeller, has created a series of everyday objects called “The Uncomfortable” where just the opposite is true.

Instead of searching for the optimal solution to a problem, Kamprani has done the exact opposite, – she has carefully considered each objects intended function and then discovered the best tongue-in-cheek way to confound that function.

 

“When it comes to everyday objects, we have an idea in our minds what it could do. We all know what a fork does, and a spoon does, and all these everyday objects. So you have an expectation for that object. What I design is very close to that, but a bit different.”

“Many people get angry seeing this,” she says. “I don’t know why. They say, ‘Oh it just makes me so angry.’”

Creative Lip Art by Makeup Artist Laura Jenkinson

British Laura Jankson Famed on Anstgram and other social networking sites competent in arts and creations, after the publication of many of her mouth pictures, were she painted on it cartoon characters in an innovative way.

 Jankson works as an expert in makeup and hair style, she used makeup tools in the completion of those unique decorations images, which made​her a star followed by thousands of fans.

Speaking about her methods, the 25-year old artist says, “I find a picture and then just hold it up to the mirror as a guide and draw straight onto my face - it's easier than you think!. Ironically, drawing onto someone else is more difficult - I think it's more straightforward drawing onto my own face.” “I use theatrical make-up normally, but I occasionally use lipstick if I need to get the exact shade of something,” she added. 

Dynamic Make-Up Now Possible With Real-Time Face Tracking & Projections!

No Need For Photoshop: Digital Dynamic Wake-Up Now Possible With Real-Time Face Tracking And Predictions!

Digital, Dynamic Make-Up Now Possible With Real-Time Face Tracking And Projections!
Photoshop: Digital, Dynamic Make-Up Now Possible With Real-Time Face Tracking And Projections!

Make-up can be a pain on photo shoots, can’t it? Well, imagine if you didn’t need make-up on a shoot to alter the look of a model’s skin. Now stop imagining, because it’s a reality, thanks to this interesting real-time face tracking and projection mapping technology....

Created by Nobumichi Asai in collaboration with Omote, this creation combines real-time face tracking and projection mapping to apply a computer-generated set of makeup, which can be as static or dynamic as you want. Limited only by the same creativity that will inevitably result in the final image, the options are limitless for the most part.

There isn’t a great deal of technical information as to how all of this truly works, but as time goes on and this technology develops, the options will vastly expand. In the meantime, give the above video demonstration a watch and be prepared for a wonderful step forward in creative possibilities.........

A Daring Street Art Escape by Daan Botlek

While poking around a condemned building in Berlin, street artist Daan Botlek dreamed up the idea of his white shilhouette figures executing a daring escape. The series of pieces here, Escape from Wuhlheide, was the result. (via Lustik)

Street Art: The Emotion of Urban Infrastructure on the Streets of Olsztyn, Poland

It’s amazing how a few perfectly placed gestures, about 20 lines of black spray paint in this case, can completely transform two mundane boxes into something so fun. This particular piece is by Adam Łokuciejewski and Szymon Czarnowski. (via street art utopia)

Incredible Street Painting Art by JPS

Here’s few fun pieces by UK street artist JPS who creates small and lage-scale stencil works, paintings, and installations in urban areas. While most of his work seems greatly influenced by pop culture icons, horror movie characters, and comic book heroes, I tend to enjoy these one-off pieces a bit more. You can see more over on his Facebook page.

 

Mind Blowing Mirror Photography

These Images are not Photoshopped, these was created using only mirrors, with mirrors a part of the body is disappeared and replaced by the reflected image.

  

Reflections Photography can be extremely rewarding and produce stunning results, but sometimes achieving those mind blowing shots can be harder than first thought. These optical illusions are just amazing and brilliantly put together. 

 

Chile Player Draws A Tattoo Commemorating His Lost Shot in Brazilian Goal in World Cup 2014

Mauricio Pinilla, Chile striker, draw tattooed on his back to commemorate his shot on goal against Brazil, which hit the crossbar during a meeting with the round of 16 in the 2014 World Cup. The tattoo showed a rocket shot that hit the crossbar in the 119 minutes in extra time. He wrote the words: «one centimeter was separate us from glory».

Bottled Smoke Art By Jim Dingilian 2

Jim Dingilian creates incredible subtractive images from bottles filled with smoke. The artist begins by coating the bottles’ inner surfaces with smoke. He then uses brushes and small implements mounted on the ends of dowels to reach inside. With a steady hand, Jim slowly and selectively erases certain areas. The smoke which remains on the glass forms the amazing images seen below.

 

Dingilian was born in York, PA but spent seven years of his childhood in Waterloo, Belgium before returning to the United States, receiving his MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1996. Represented by the McKenzie Fine Art Gallery in New York, Dingilian’s work centers around subtractive images on found objects. As Jim explains:
“The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace nature. The bottles add to the implied narratives of transgression. When found by the sides of roads or in the weeds near the edges of parking lots, empty liquor bottles are artifacts of consumption, delight, or dread. As art objects, they become hourglasses of sorts, their drained interiors now inhabited by dim memories.”

 

Bottled Smoke Art By Jim Dingilian 1

Jim Dingilian creates incredible subtractive images from bottles filled with smoke. The artist begins by coating the bottles’ inner surfaces with smoke. He then uses brushes and small implements mounted on the ends of dowels to reach inside. With a steady hand, Jim slowly and selectively erases certain areas. The smoke which remains on the glass forms the amazing images seen below.

Dingilian was born in York, PA but spent seven years of his childhood in Waterloo, Belgium before returning to the United States, receiving his MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1996. Represented by the McKenzie Fine Art Gallery in New York, Dingilian’s work centers around subtractive images on found objects. As Jim explains:
“The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace nature. The bottles add to the implied narratives of transgression. When found by the sides of roads or in the weeds near the edges of parking lots, empty liquor bottles are artifacts of consumption, delight, or dread. As art objects, they become hourglasses of sorts, their drained interiors now inhabited by dim memories.”

Chrysler PT Cruiser Limousine For Weddings In Russia

When you think about wedding and limousine for weddings, sure that your first thought is not a Chrysler, but if you are just surrounded by rocks in Russia, you do not have many options. This wedding limousine is an old Chrysler PT Cruiser convertible that has never been too attractive, but the Russians halved it in half, add the dome, and now it looks like a carriage. This sedan even has curtains, chandeliers and white leather interior.

Interior floral motifs are motivated in something that would be befitting true carriages from the 18th century in France. The company that rented this limo is upgraded and special racks for champagne and glasses for the bride, groom and best men. There are blue LED lights that adorn the interior, and even the cups are made in a curved shape.

Stark Infrared Photographs of Icelandic Landscapes by Andy Lee 1

Iceland, with its extreme landscapes, jagged lava fields and Northern Lights, is arguably one of the most photogenic countries in the world. So it’s no surprise that over half a million tourists flock there every year to shoot the landscape. But UK-based photographer Andy Lee, on his first visit to the country, came back with a series of photos titled “Blue Iceland” that captured the waterfalls, peaks and roads in, literally, a whole new light.

 Using infrared photography to pick up invisible light rather than visible light, Lee transformed Iceland into a series of stark, moody and somewhat dreamlike silhouettes. At times the austere rock formations and glowing waterfalls almost appear to be painted. You can see much more of Lee’s work over on his portfolio site. In the words of Lee himself, “Infrared and Iceland, a match made in heaven.” (via PetaPixel)

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Giant Sculptures Made of Plants and Flowers

In Midtown Atlanta, Georgia - USA, there’s a very popular garden called “The Atlanta Botanical Garden”, it’s a 30 acres garden that’s been made year 1976, this garden contains some amazing huge sculptures that’s all made of plants and flowers, these sculptures are made of shapes like animals, birds or people.

The sculptures are all living-sculptures made in a very complicated process, they put a big frame that’s overlaid with a steel mesh that’s covered with soil and moss, and then it gets seeded with the plants and flowers seeds, these seeds get watered by a web of irrigation tubes, so it helps the sculpture to grow perfectly and always keep on being fresh and colored.

Incredible Illusionist 3D Sand Art

This is a kind of a new art that’s spreading slowly lately, it’s the sand art, not sand sculpture art, but sand 3D drawings which vanish in the same day they are created in, but still a joy for the artist and the people who watch it till the sunsets down by the end of the day, so he photographs them after they are finished, not to be done in vain, specially that they are perfectly done.

Jamie Harkins is a creative artist and also a musician from New Zealand, and he is the one who came with all these ideas, helped him making them are other artists such as; David Rendu, Constanza Nightingale and Lucia Lupf, but their kind of work looks like a 3D art, but it’s actually a 2D art which is done by a way that looks like a 3D art, and it’s called “anamorphous” art, where artists draws it to looks like a 3D art from one angle and from a far distance, but from any other angle, it doesn’t appear to be anything at all, he strengthen his art by adding the members of his team interacting with the drawing as a part of it, so that it looks more real to viewers. He says about his sand art: “We’ve seen other people doing stuff on beaches, but it’s always been geometric, flat shapes, like a pattern, so we thought we’d get into the whole 3D thing. And I kind of like the fact that it disappears at the end of the day when the tide comes in. It makes it impermanent.”

Best of Lifestyle India Fashion 2014

Traditional Indian wear with the latest trends dominated the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) in New Delhi. The Autumn/Winter 2014 edition showcased designers such as Tarun Tahiliani and Namrata Joshipira, with Rahul Mishra presenting a collection that won the Woolmark Prize in Milan in February.

 

Indian fashion for spring and summer 2014 we offer you Madam a painting filled with colors and embellished fashion embroidery in the form of roses and flowers Sttagayn out this spring, and as usual, this selection of Indian fashion adopted by Indian women for daily use, as well as on special occasions.

Incriduble Sculpture Of Globe Out Of Matchsticks And Paint

Andy Yoder Spent Over Two Years Creating A Globe Out Of Matchsticks And Paint

 

Sculptor Andy Yoder spent nearly two years on his piece, Early One Morning, painstakingly applying thousands of painted matches to create a globe with the implied potential to catch fire. The matches, which were individually hand-painted, recreate the continents and oceans, but also swirling weather patterns (of note, Hurricane Sandy is seen off the west coast of North America).

 

 

The wooden matches are connected to a food and cardboard base, held together by a plywood skeleton (as a precaution, Yoder covered the piece a flame retardant chemical). Yoder’s piece can be seen Winkleman Gallery at this year’s PULSE New York Contemporary Art Fair, May 8–11. (via from89 and junk-culture)

Stunning Paintings by Duffy Sheridan

Duffy Sheridan has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn to paint anything and everything. Although he and his family spent many years in relative seclusion in the far corners of the world, Sheridan's work has attracted the attention of collectors on five continents.

 

Since returning to the United States in 1991, his work has received international acclaim and he has been designated a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. His paintings can be found in prestigious institutions from a Cathedral in the South Pacific to the US Air Force Academy to corporate headquarters in Manhattan, as well as in the private residences of kings, judges, bishops, doctors and collectors all over the world.