When it comes to decor for your halloween party, why not skip the party shop and head to the craft shop for some black paper to make these origami bats? Below are instructions for different styles of origami bats, from basic and easy origami instructions to devilishly difficult folding instructions for those who have sold […]
Greg Simkins has used his artistic skill and his highly evolved imagination to hide his graffiti nickname “CRAOLA” in this painting, called “Let the outside in”. Can you spot the letters “C, R, A, O, L, A”? (See the end of this article for clues) Greg “Craola” Simkins is a surrealist artist who has developed […]
Fox McCloud is a character from the Nintendo game series Star Fox. His backstory involves his father meeting a tragic and violent end after being betrayed by his own wingman. The death of the senior McCloud ended the original Star Fox team, and the only survivor of this team urged the young and inexperienced Fox […]
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. […]
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 […]
Winnie Truong is a Canadian artist who works chiefly in pencil on paper. Her works are small but powerful; combining beauty and the grotesque to create alluring forms that seem to be in constant motion on a static page. She uses color pencils to create a hair texture that she uses throughout each art work. […]
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 […]
American illustrator and fine artist Kelly McKernan paints women in imaginative worlds other than our own. Each of her scenes includes, as she says on her website; a woman and a world. These women either interact with the world around them or they seem to look off-page, over the viewer’s shoulder, as if there is […]
Daniel Mackie is an ex-Photoshop junkie who turned away from digital art software in 2010. He says, “Photoshop was making me cut corners and it was driving me crazy with its flat colours. Once I started using watercolour it became instantly clear to me that one of the reasons I was becoming so frustrated with […]
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 […]