Painting

Embroidered paintings by Sophia Narrett

Embroidered paintings by Peruvian artist Sophia Narrett
Embroidered paintings by American artist Sophia Narrett

Embroidered paintings by Sophia Narrett. Talented American artist Sophia Narrett creates amazing paintings where the paint as if flows down the canvas. All the magic of her paintings opens, you only if you get closer – in fact, the pictures of Sofia are not painted but skillfully embroidered. Sophia Narrett started as a painter, focusing on narrative figure painting. Then she realized she wanted a different kind of physical engagement with the materials, and started working in thread. Sofia decided to combine painting and embroidery – and now, instead of brush strokes on the canvas she prefers stitches of different thickness and texture of the yarn, which add volume and layers to her paintings. From a distance, the picture of Sofia looks like oil painting, and this optical illusion gives her paintings a special charm.
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Miniature Nature Sculpture

Miniature Wildlife sculpture by Anya Stone

Lupercus - gray wolf
Lupercus – gray wolf. Miniature Wildlife sculpture by Anya Stone

British mixed media artist Anya Stone has 15 years of experience in fine art and design. She makes life-like, detailed miniature sculptures of wildlife out of polymer clay in 1:12 scale and smaller scales. Wood, synthetic fibers or feathers are applied to sculpture to make them look realistic. The sculpture of a gray wolf (in the above picture) is made from polymer clay with different shades of hand blended merino wool applied to the body. The eyes are made of green glass. Height 6cm at the shoulder. Traditionally Lupercus was known as the God of winter and has the ability to transform into a wolf. It is said that his day falls between the 2nd and 15th of February, so he is associated with Valentines day, especially in the times of ancient Rome. Lupercus is sometimes identified with the Roman God Faunus and is a protector of flocks and shepherds who drives away the wolves and dangers of the night.
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Painting

Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra

Eduardo Kobra in Moscow, mural of the Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya
Eduardo Kobra in Moscow, mural of the Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya

Whether traveling to New York, Moscow, or Sao Paulo, you will definitely recognize the art of a famous Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra. He can’t be confused with anybody else – his huge wall murals are a kaleidoscope of colors, manifestation of blue, red, yellow … Eduardo Kobra was born in 1976 in Sao Paulo. His artistic talent was noticed in 1987, first on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, and soon in the city. Following the developments that urban art has gained in Sao Paulo, he develops the “Walls of Memory” project that seeks to transform the urban landscape through art and redeem the memory of the city. This project is an amalgamation of nostalgia and modernity, resulting in scenographic paintings, some monumental, recreating nostalgic moments of the city.
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Applied Art

Paper artist Maude White

Paper artist Maude White
An eagle. Work by American self-taught paper artist Maude White

Paper artist Maude White
American self-taught artist Maude White has created an art gallery of intricate fairy characters, birds, and animals. Maude came from a family of visual storytellers. Her mother and sister are both toy makers who influenced her. She enjoyed working with paper even in her childhood, attracted by the stark contrast between the black and white paper.
“With paper cutting there are so many opportunities to create negative space that tells its own story, just by letting the observer become present in the piece, by allowing him or her to look through it. I like that.”
Currently, the artist is working on an exhibition to be shown in Buffalo, NY in September.
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Applied Art Sculpture

Vodafone ads characters ZooZoos

Vodafone advertisement character ZooZoo
Vodafone advertisement character ZooZoo

Vodafone ads characters ZooZoos have become a real hit among Facebook, Orkut and Twitter users. There are more than 200 pages on ZooZoos having over 250000 fans, growing daily. The ads were also viewed by thousands of people on YouTube. These cute white creatures with ballooned bodies and egg heads are used to promote various value added services of Vodafone. Although these characters look animated, they are actually humans in Zoozoo costumes. The idea – the story lines and the name belongs to Rajiv Rao. According to Rajiv Rao, National Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather, they “wanted to make real people look as animated as possible”. Vodafone received the first People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 2009 Glitterbox Award, for replacing the Pug with more humane alternatives in their ads.
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Applied Art Architecture Nature

Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur

Storks. Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur
Storks. Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur

Floral sculpture Parade Corso Fleur
It took landscape designers and artists half a million of dahlias to create a beautiful and colorful parade in a small town of Selestat, in Alsace in north-eastern France. That’s how many flower heads they used to build twelve sculptures, driven on special platforms through the streets of Selestat on August 9.

Actually, on this day there are two parades – evening and night, with live music and fireworks. Celebration continues the next day, Sunday. Platform with flower sculptures are arranged in the streets and squares for residents and visitors to look and take pictures. Throughout the city organized fairs and folk festivals, street performances, everything is just devoted to flowers.
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Sculpture

Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter

Diane bust. Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter
Diane bust. Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter

French self-taught sculptor Pierre Matter was born April 4, 1964 in Haut-Rhin, in the valley of Munster. After a rather mystical childhood, he, without conviction, left his studies in math for artistic creation. He tried his hand at gouache, watercolor, was involved in drawing comics and bas-reliefs in stone. He finally found his artistic way in sculpture that has always been his main passion. Pierre Matter has been creating stunning sculptures for more than ten years. His art studio is actually his garage, where he using copper, aluminum, bronze, rubber and everything that comes to hand creates his scrap metal artworks. Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter combines nature and products of industrial world. Some of his sculptures weigh more than six tons.
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