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This one dollar bill doesn't have a portrait of a president, but of the emoticon the smiley face

Four Artists Turn Money into Art Which Makes Money

In America, it is often believed that you may not use bank notes or coins to make art. The reality is that while you may deface currency for the sake of art, you may not put the coins or notes back into circulation, or claim that they are worth more than they originally were worth. […]

Korean-born artist Stella Im Hultberg shows her masterful used of mixed media in this beautiful painting that shows a peaceful woman surrounded by giant flowers

Stellar Artist Stella Im Hultberg Paints Dreamy Women with Flowers

Stella Im Hultberg works in mixed media; combining ink, watercolor and acrylic to create masterful works of art. Her paintings often depict a peaceful, dreamy woman surrounded by flowers, as though every thought and feeling of the girl is made of the soft petals of these flowers. Hultberg’s use of pale skin tones offset by […]

Watch this Artist Spawn a Black Magic Tiger

Remember when you were a kid and some genius art teacher colored a piece of paper with wax crayons before coating it with a layer of black paint? And then you’d scratch into the paint to make a rainbow black magic drawing and everyone was like, “Ooh, wow!”? Well, this is pretty much the same […]

Tattoo Video: Watch an Owl Fly Out of this Guy’s Chest

Ukrainian tattoo artist Dmitriy Samohin is an enormously talented tattooer who has made a name for himself with his realistic tattoos. He tattoos life-like portraits of people and animals in an artistic way; creating body art that is a beautiful blend of photo realism and artistic styling. There are few tattooers out there who can match […]

Nordic animals are the subjects of this wacky totem pole illustration by Niark1

Niark1’s Insane Art will Make You Lose Your Mind

Crazy Frenchman Sebastien Feraut (aka Niark1) creates cheerfully mad paintings, illustrations and graffiti murals in his signature style. He uses geometric designs, cartoonish characters, text and psychedelic patterns to build each of his designs. The result is a mind-blowing mash-up of images that the artist has somehow managed to render in a legible form. Monsters […]

Cult horror film Little Shop of Horrors inspired this comic painting by graffiti and fine artist Scribe

Stories become Paintings Thanks to US Graffiti Artist Scribe

“Scribe” is the nick of American artist Donald Ross who has put his dynamic talents to use creating graffiti wall murals, children’s book illustrations and fine art paintings. He chose the nick Scribe because he incorporates folk tales, fantasy parables and biblical references in his artworks, turning these stories into visual works of art. Scribe brings […]

The finished painting by Marcel Witte that shows a powerful lion showing mercy to an innocent lamb

This Gracious Painting Looks Just Like a Photograph

Dutch artist Marcel Witte specializes in photorealistic paintings of personified animals. This video shows the making of one of his paintings, called “Gracious”, in which a lion gently carries a baby lamb with unexpected tenderness and gentleness. Like all of Marcel Witte’s paintings, he has included a human element in the scene. In Gracious, the […]

Character sculpture or monster doll, either way this fantasy science fiction sculpture by Andrey Drozdov inspires the imagination

Russian Sculptor Gives Life to Steampunk Aliens

Andrey Drozdov is an artist from Russia who creates alienish character sculptures. Each of his sculptures is packed with personality and visual appeal. There is no lack of texture, form or character in his pieces. This makes his artistic sculptures appealing to art collectors from a wide age group and from many different backgrounds. Some […]

Watch How a Handful of Sand can Become a Huge, Beautiful Mandala

New Yorker Joe Mangrum has an unusual hobby: he likes to head out to a public space with bags of sand and create mandala designs where every passer-by can watch him at work. He says he creates his colorful sand mandalas not only to create joy for kids, but to inspire and motivate adults to […]

A detective heads off to investigate a wolrd beyond the edges of this painting by Estela Cuadro

Trip Out on Art with Estela Cuadro’s Hallucinogenic Paintings

Estela Cuadro’s personal art style is unique. She incorporates elements of spirituality, tribalism and psychedelia into each of her paintings to create scenes that are abstract yet contain hints of reality. Each painting is filled with a sense of movement and animation. It’s as though the artist was in the midst of a wild imagining, […]