Category Archives: Art/Craft

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UK based artist and soi disant ‘bump painter’ Carrie Preston has created over 130 works of art on the bellies of her pregnant clients.

Each piece takes about two hours to complete and she talks about her ouevre on Bored Panda.

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Artist Guido Van Helten’s mural on William Street – based on a photograph (pic 4) taken at the Limerick Milk Market by Gerry Andrews – painted over seven days  for the National City Of Culture’s Draw Out Street Art Festival.

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French photographer Didier Massard’s series, Territories – currently exhibiting at the Kopeikin Gallery in LA – might look like digital art or oil paintings but each one is actually a meticulously hand-constructed diorama, carefully lit and photographed in his studio.

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Painting Surgeries by French Canadian artist Marie-Lou Desmeules, an alarming blend of ‘performance, painting, sculpture and photography’. To wit:.

Marie-Lou works directly on her models. She covers them under acrylic paint, clothes, plastic, paper & hair to create sculptures out of them. The final artworks are photographs of the living sculptures.In her series “Celebrities”, Desmeules (re)creates pop culture icons and famous personalities. Her work questions the notion of beauty, the growing plastic surgery industry, genders & identity.

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San Antonio based barber Rob The Original cuts and colours celebrity portraits, video game graphics and whatever you’re having yourself into his clients’ closely shorn scones.

He posts videos of the cuts here and photos of the results here.

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