Inspired by the large scale paintings of American artist Chuck Close, Mary Ellen Croteau uses recycled bottle caps (in their original colours) to create collaged portraits.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
X-Man
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A radiographic mural of Pac Man in Hamburg by London street artist and x-ray-muralist extraordinaire SHOK-1.
Craicuum
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Fun-free Dublin City Manager Owen Keegan by Lolly Pop.
Tiny Dramas
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Miniature dioramas by Kendall Murray – an ouevre already well represented by the likes of Bettina Güber, Slinkachu and Christopher Boffoli, but hey, they’re very small and there’s always room for more.
A colllaboration between Studio Wieki Somers and chocolatier Rafael Mutter in which a giant chocolate cylinder of 10 stacked layers studded with geometric patterns of flavoured shapes which are gradually revealed as a crank-turned blade slices thin layers off the top.
The work was commissioned as part of a retrospective of the work of the early 20th century Dutch furniture desigNOMNOMNOM
Aye, there’s the rub.
A mere pencil-sketch of the nostalgic chromolithographic delights on offer at SPLAT Action Transfers – a massive pictorial database of Letraset Action Transfers that may or may not be a madeleine of your own temps perdu.
A stack of shipping containers put in place by Belgian artist Arne Quinze for the North West Walls Street Art Festival earlier this month, upon which Spanish graffiti artists Pichi & Avo were given free rein to apply their trademark themes – Greek gods depicted in vibrant Mediterranean colours.
Life Drawing
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Drawings by Malaysian artist Monica Lee – a former digital artist who has turned to hand-drawn photorealism. Each of the spectacularly rendered still lifes and portraits takes up to a month to complete.
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Body Of Work
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The coup d’oeil creations of German master body painter Gesine Mardwell.
Confections
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A mere corrupted .exe file of the visualisations on show at the Computer Virus Catalogue – an ‘illustrated guide to some of the worst viruses in computer history’ curated by Bas van der Poel, featuring the work of artists from around the world.