Flower Bouquets Made With Discarded Spray Cans
Designer Hillary Coe made these spectacular-looking bouquet sculptures using parts of discarded spray cans. The sculptures are part of a series of works, which she has been creating for the…
Michael Shindler’s Brilliant Tintype Portraits
Tintypes photographs are made by capturing direct-positive images on sheets of iron, which are then blackened by painting, lacquering or enameling. Photographer Michael Shindler, a practitioner of this vintage photographic process, has a tintype portrait studio set up on Valencia Street in San Francisco. The studio has seen about 3,500 people having their portraits taken by him.
Michael’s photographs have an interesting sense of randomness to them, mostly due to the fact that he has no choice in deciding his subjects, many of whom are curious visitors to his studio. He prepares each tintype by hand, and then makes single exposures of his subjects. The tintypes are processed immediately, and can be ready in 15 minutes to be given to the customers. The lush, high contrast photographs he shoots using this process are truly unique as they are no negatives involved, and only one physical copy of each individual image exists.
[via Tintype Portraits]
Hit the jump to see some select images from his portfolio.
Nathan Yoder’s Hand Lettered Chalk Typography
Watch Nathan Yoder create a gorgeous chalk illustration for the 10th founding anniversary of Hampton Creative, a boutique advertising agency based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Zach Welch’s Mixed Media Portraits
Check out a few wonderful mixed media artworks from the portfolio of Zach Welch, an 18 year old American artist.
Zach considers punk rock music as a major artistic influence, and combines realistic elements with abstract geometric ones to create a hybrid with a unique “punk edge” to it. He uses colored pencil, sharpies, watercolors, paint pens, collages, and spray paint to create his layered pieces.
You can buy prints and t-shirt of this young talent’s works at Bluecanvas and Forest Ink.
Mars Falling
A digital art piece made by designer, illustrator and artist, Francisco Galárraga for the "Ilustres Ilustradores" expo (2011) in Quito, Ecuador.
Spoke Art’s Summer Group Show
Debuting today in San Francisco, Spoke Art Gallery’s annual ‘Summer Group Show’ will feature a diverse range of terrific art from local, national and international emerging artists. The exhibition will showcase works of varying mediums and styles, representative of the new contemporary art scene.
The show will have it’s opening night today (August 2, 2012), from 6pm – 10pm. It will be on view till August 25, 2012.
Visit Spoke Art’s site for more details.
Hit the jump to see more images of the artworks.
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Manicured Fingernail Lawns
Londoner Alice Bartlett’s visit to a model shop was the source of inspiration behind these lush-looking “lawns” on her fingernails, which she created using nothing more than green flocking, miniature trees and figurines.
[via Laughing Squid]
More images after the jump.
A Bill Murray Coloring Book for Grown-ups (and Maybe Kids, Too)
A coloring-in book with quirky illustrations based on Bill Murray, one of the most irrepressible and humorous actors of our times? Take my money, please!
The folks behind Belly Kids, the publishers of the book, asked more than 20 different illustrators to create a series of images inspired by the film roles of the great man himself. The book will feature characters played by Bill in cult movies like The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, Ed Wood etc.
Titled ‘Thrill Murray‘, the £7.99 ($12.50) book will be available on August 13th at Belly Kids, Amazon, and other book retailers.
You can check out more coloring pages from the book, after the jump. (more…)
Brilliant Olympic-Themed Illustrations by Charis Tsevis
A series of terrific illustrations created by Charis Tsevis for an Yahoo ad campaign for the coverage of the 2012 Olympics. Keeping the campaign’s slogan "The Once-In-A-Lifetime moments that happen every four years" in mind, Charis was able to portray the raw energy, color, excitement, and triumph of the Olympics in his illustrations.
Charis is an award-winning visual designer based in Athens, Greece. He also teaches typography and editorial design at AKTO College, Greece. You can find more of his works on his website and Behance galleries.
[via My Modern Met]
Hit the jump to see the rest of the illustrations.
‘Fast Mercy’ Transforming Sculptures by Tomoo Yamaji
Artist Tomoo Yamaji (previously here and here) is the creator of some of the most brilliant and unique sculptures, which can change shape, all without having any of their parts being removed.
The inspiration for his ‘Fast Mercy’ sculptures was born from the idea of a “highly agile bodhisattva,” a spiritually-enlightened spirit who helps people affected by the earthquake and the resulting tsunami that occurred in Japan, in 2011. The sculptures can be manipulated and positioned into two distinct forms; ‘Flying’ and ‘Humanoid’.
While the sculptures in the series may look similar to to each other, they can actually be considered as different avatars of an ethereal being. His latest piece comes in gold and blue, and is made from polyurethane resin and acrylic (just as his other sculptures).
Hit the jump to see more images of sculptures from the series.