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

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. 

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.

 

Women Dreams By The Photographer Oleg Oprisco

Oleg Oprisco, this is the name of the talent photographer, if you don’t recognize his name, you will definitely recognize his photos. Oprisco is an inspired photographer who brings that ethereal, fairytale quality to his photos that make them iconic. His photos have inspired so many photographers to try and capture the same magical effect, which we truly admire. As Oprisco says, “Create + Desire”. Here’s a little more about him.

Stunning Painting Using Glue and Sand

Painting using a transparent glue is so difficult, in this video you will see a painter painting a women using a glue then he appearing his painting by strewing it with sand. It's really incredible to see that he have painted at the end the women who introduce the program. watch the this stunning video and have fun.

 

Incredible Hypnotic Animated Gifs Art of David Szakaly

Since 2008 Hungarian/German graphic designer David Szakaly has been churning out some of the most dizzying, hypnotic and wholly original gifs on the web under the name Davidope. His blend of twisting organic forms, flashes of black and white, and forays into pulsing technicolor shapes have inspired legions of others to experiment with the medium, many of whom have been featured here on Colossal. It’s hard to determine the scale of Szakaly’s influence online, but a simple Google image search for “animated gif” brings up dozens of his images that have been shared around Tumblr hundreds of thousands of times.

 

Szakaly began experimenting with the vector animation program Macromedia Flash back in 1999 where he used the software to create presentations, banners, and other creatives for clients. It was nearly a decade later when he decided to dedicate more time to experimenting with motion graphics and found that Tumblr was a great platform to share his quirky gifs. While he still works in the corporate world on other digital projects, he has also found commercial success making animations for clients around the world. Though it’s his personal work that really stands out. If or when gifs end up on gallery walls, it will be hard to deny Szakaly’s role in getting them there. 

Hyperrealistic Eyes Drawn with Colored Pencils

Texas-based graffiti artist Redosking draws fantastically detailed eyes using colored pencils. It seems like eyes are a common muse for illustrators working in the realm of hyperrealism but these particular pieces seem above and beyond the average attempt. You can also follow him on Instagram. (via Illusion 360)

Sleeveface - The Art of Making Photos

How did I manage to miss the record-to-face-selfie, aka sleevefacing, phenomenon? The term was first coined in 2007 by Welsh DJ Carl Morris after pictures were taken of him holding record sleeves to his faces. An official Sleeveface blog followed in 2008 and the rest is hours of entertainment history. These are some of my favorites . . .

Different Childhood Photos By The Photographer Steve McCurry

Born in Philadelphia, McCurry graduated cum laude from the College of Arts and Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. Best known for his evocative color photography, Steve McCurry, in the finest documentary tradition, captures the essence of human struggle and joy.

From India

“Most of my images are grounded in people. I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape that you could call the human condition.”

In this collection of McCurry’s work, I was impressed with the pictures of children he captured in many areas of the world, including India, Cambodia, Burma, the Philippines, and continuing coverage of Afghanistan.

 

 Collecting poppy in Afghanistan

In class in Afghanistan

Afghan refugee girl

A boy from Afghan

From cambodia

From Burma

grandmother & grandson by abe less, Indonesia

From India

Kabul, Afghanistan

Mother and child at car window

Nepal

Philippines

Shaolin Monks training

From Burma

Sulu sea, Philippines

From Tibet

 

Transformation of Women Using Makeup

Cosmetics which are known as makeup or make-upare care substances used to enhance the appearance or odor of the human body. They are generally mixtures of chemical compounds, some being derived from natural sources, many being synthetic.

 

Here is a list of women transformation from the original face appearance to masked one.

No Filter

Every woman wants to look flawless. For those of us who didn't hit the genetic lottery for today's beauty standards, contouring could change everything!

 

via http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/ 

 Night and Day 

You could not convince most people that this is the same person! With the colorful contacts, she looks like she's barely even related to the woman underneath all of that makeup! 

via http://i1.ytimg.com/

Red Lip

Red lipstick is a quick way to transform any look. In this case, it's one of the last things you notice because the rest of the makeup has had such a dramatic effect.  

via http://media1.fashionfreax.net/

Nature to Glam

 This woman is a natural beauty with a lot of the simple beauty issues a lot of woman have. The glam eye is a bit too much but we definitely wouldn't think this was the same person. 

 via http://img.izismile.com/   

Baby Blues 

In the first photo she looks like she could be a pretty teenager. In the final photo she looks much more mature and put together but that's got to be a lot of makeup to hide those freckles so well!

  via http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/

Bold and Beautiful

The girl in the top photo, though gorgeous, looks like she would be intimidated by the girl in the final result. She went from pretty woman to model status with a few simple brush strokes! 

via http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/ 

10 Pounds Lighter 

This woman seems to have lost 10 pounds right before our eyes. She looked gorgeous before the contouring but after she looks thinner and even a bit younger.

via http://i.beautylish.co/ 

Flawless Skin

If it weren't for those gorgeous brown eyes, we'd never know this was the same person! She looks like a movie star after but it probably helps that this girl already had gorgeous skin to begin with.

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Bat the Lashes 

Similar to Kim K's signature contouring look, this dark haired beauty looks even more glamorous. Those bold lashes might be a little too much for everyday wear but the rest looks great!

via http://3.bp.blogspot.com/   

Creative Mom Turns Her Baby’s Naptime Into an Incredible Artwork

Do babies dream when they sleep, or they simply rest peacefully? Queenie Liao, a free-lance artist and mother of three boys living in California, has tried to answer this question by sharing the adventurous dramas that her child Wengenn dreams of during his sleep.

This little gem has been making its way around the world wide web but I just couldn’t resist sharing it with those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Freelance artist Queenie Liao was inspired by Adele Enersen’s Mila’s Daydreams and created her own series of dreamy scenes while her baby boy naps. Wengenn’s wonderland takes shape with just some clothes, stuffed animals and other common household items. Honestly, adorable!

Combining artistry and imagination with photography, Queenie has created captivating photos using plain cloths, stuffed animals, and other common household materials to create the background setting.

Her album – Wengenn in Wonderland – is a compilation of over 100 creative photos that depict the continuous exploration of her son Wengenn in his magical land of charm and wonder. She drew inspiration from other creative mommas like Adele Enersen and Anne Geddes but gave the images her own imaginative fairytale twist.

Website: wengenninwonderland.com

Clever Illustration Art Using the Simplest Tools by JAVIER PEREZ

The Ecuadorian painter and art director Javier Perez published a series of funny and modified paintings on his Instagram account.

His ideas depending on mixing of tools and things of everyday life with simple line drawings, changing the grapes to balloons, and nails to a nice urchin spines, and even the balloon turned by his hand to a lighting bulb!

It is amazing how a pair of lines with a pencil can change the entire artwork. Ecuadorian art director Javier Perez has created a clever series of illustrations that turn everyday objects into cute drawings. His artwork makes us look at these everyday things differently with a more imaginative and playful perspective.

Back to The Future project to revive the old photos by Irina Werning

Argentine photogtrapher woman "Irina Werning" initiated her photographing project (BACK TO THE FUTURE) in early 2010, which is still going on so far. 

Her project concluded in visiting people in their homes and choose old photos from their photos archives, whether from childhood images or images in young adulthood for the elderly and re-capture their owners in the same scene after being grown up. Next first image (CECILE) from France in 1987 and the other in 2010.

The photographers tend to define the photographic image as the moment in which the time stop to capture that moment by the camera lens but the point which is interesting in this project is to re-capture the moment after a long period of time to the same people and the same places to see how it changed people by the passage of time and the variation trends of the moments that captured them a long time ago.

(CECILE) from France in 1987 and the other in 2010

Creative Forced Perspective Optical Illusion Photos

As we have written before, Perspective photography is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.

It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.

When Perspective is mixed with Creative minds , we could find these magnificent miracles that will get you lost a bit, dream or even imagine many different visions.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes this ain’t exactly right. Distance overlapping, positions, and timing can sometimes create a brand new perspective of a photo. This weekend, we want to show you 100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle, a compilation of photos taken at the exact right timing and angle, thus creating a humor side of the story; intentionally or unintentionally.