Insanely intricate and beautifully carved buffalo skulls sold at Beachcomber.
These are slightly morbid but I can’t get over how gorgeous the work is! The intricate detail is mind-blowing!
via Skull Appreciation Society
Tag Archives: artists
DIY Watercolor Decor
This is a fun, relaxing DIY for Make Something Mondays. It is always nice to have something like this after the holidays. You can do this by yourself, with a friend, or even with your kids! Its like coloring in a coloring book but without restrictions. I hope you enjoy it!
Things You Will Need:
Brushes
Cup of water
Newspaper
Watercolors
Felt-tip Marker
Thesaurus pages
Step 1:
There is only one step. Start doodling with your watercolors on the thesaurus pages.
Painting like this really helps to blow off some steam (at least for me). I really like the way the ink shows through the watercolors.
If you like it enough when you are finished you can frame them and they make some awesome decor!
If you want to play around some more, use your marker to outlines or color with. see what you can do with it!
One Year of Blogging
Guess what?!
Today is the one year anniversary of the day I started Make Something Mondays! YAY! Thank you, to my followers, for making my first year of blogging a great one!
What I’ve learned:
- I am more crafty than I was a year ago- Seriously, I was WAAAAAAY more artsy than crafty. Now I can add another skill to my list.
- You truly have to love what you choose to blog about- I could talk about art for hours, maybe even days, without running out of steam. People become interested in what you are talking about if you are passionate.
- You are who you hang with- For those of you who blog, you know that you need to attract the right people and those people can really teach you something.
- “Patience is a virtue”- My parents told me this my whole life, literally. They probably told me this before I could even talk. Success doesn’t happen over night and sometimes it is good that it takes a while. If you were that good then, you would have nothing to work toward.
- It is a give and take relationship- If you give them something good then they give you a response.
- Take an interest in your followers- I’m serious! There are a ton of interesting people out there and I’ve found many of them through blogging. I’ve formed some great relationships with my followers. You are all wonderful!
Let’s recap on the highlights from 12/13/11-12/13/12
Published 12/13/2012 | DIY Ornament
Published 01/4/2012 | The Street Work of Banksy
Published 1/7/2012 | This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids
Published 02/19/2012 | Leonid Afremov
Published 03/9/2012 | My first Freshly Pressed article and most views at 4,923 people
Published 04/26/2012 | Painting With Sound
Published 6/8/2012 | 4D Artwork
Published 6/13/2012 | 25 Incredibly Detailed Black And White Portraits of the Homeless
Published 7/4/2012 | Peter Aurisch | Freshly Pressed for the second time!
Published 7/25/2012 | Watercolor
Published 10/28/12 | CALABARTE
Published 11/20/12 | Crafting with Corks
I deliberately didn’t put my crafts in this post. I want you to tell me which of my crafts you liked the most!!! Please comment and let me know. I want to see what you liked, what you tried, what you want to see more of, etc. This blog is for you guys! Tell me what you like to see!
Leonid Afremov Paintings
I have posted Leonid Afremov’s paintings before but I have to do it again. His work is so amazing.
Leonid is a professional artist. He paints only with a palette knife and oil paints. I can’t get over how amazing the work is. Leonid was born in Vitebsk in 1955. He paints every day and posts work in many places. I like to look at his work on Deviant Art but it is all over the internet. You will find hundreds of search results for him.
Check out his work:
Deviant Art
Facebook
flickr
M.C. Escher LEGO Recreations
I love M.C. Escher. A lot. When I saw this I had to repost it. Ohh my, the geekery is coming out!
Artists Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu were inspired by M.C. Escher who is most famous for his “impossible structures”. They wondered if it was possible to recreate the drawings in LEGO form.
Andrew and Daniel took 16 shots, zoomed in on specific parts of the models, and glued them together as a mosaic panorama.
Source: Andrew Lipson’s website
Pretty cool stuff: Official M.C. Escher site
Also, if anyone finds an email address for these guys would you please send it to me? I would like to let them know that I posted it but I can’t find an email anywhere. Thanks!
Balcony
Relativity
Waterfall
Belvedere
Ascending and Descending
Copyright © A. Lipson 2003
M. C. Escher works (C) Cordon Art, Baarn, the Netherlands.
Oh Sweet, Sweet Vandalism
via Cracked View link for more!
Most of us think of graffiti as an urban art relegated to back alleys, rap album covers and all of New York City in the 1980s. But sometimes an artist comes along who proves that with enough creativity, vandalism can transcend typical scribbles and dick pictures on the wall. OK, maybe we spoke too soon about the dick pictures, considering …
The Barcaccia Fountain Ball Pit
Via NY Times
Have you ever wondered what it would look like if you unleashed 500,000 colorful balls on an unsuspecting city? Of course not, you’re neither a Batman villain nor a 4-year-old. And you’re certainly not professional prankster Graziano Cecchini, who not only makes a living pulling stunts a frat boy would shit his pants over, but raises the money to do them on such a scale that we can’t even talk about his work with starving African children. The awkwardness would be sky-high.
Junk Griffin
Via Designtaxi.com
Not every art school grad is frittering away his life at Starbucks and waiting tables, contrary to what probably springs to mind when you hear “art school grad.” One group of London artists, set designers, sculptors and art directors pooled their collective talents that would otherwise be wasted on the food service industry into one big project: Robots. Specifically, robots made out of reclaimed wood, trash and other junk. When two Roboters traveled to America in 2010, they decided that what Brooklyn really needed was a 9-foot-tall moving griffin perched atop a dilapidated building.
Via NY Times
Unfortunately, the picture above isn’t the first version of the griffin, because the first version was destroyed by the guy who happened to own the building the dynamic duo put their griffin on. And asking permission to construct a giant wooden contraption atop a roof on a NYC street wasn’t in their agenda that day. So when the manager of the building took a glance up and saw what looks to us like the skeletal remains of a harbinger of the apocalypse poised to attack, he had the creators arrested and the structure dismantled. Some people just don’t get it.
It didn’t take long for someone else to appreciate the beauty of a leering mythical creature made of wood, so a restaurant owner offered his own rooftop for the
Street Art, Literally
Via Designboom.com
You know how sometimes filmmakers leave their cameras out for hours to make time lapse videos? And the results look like really cool neon lights over a harbor or street or a baby turtle smoking a cigarette or something? Imagine if you could make that in a few minutes without a camera and without neon lights. All you have to do is slop tons of brightly colored paint on strategic points of a busy intersection and let the cars do the rest.
Google Art Project
via WebProNews
Now Has 35,000 Works Of Art
Google announced that it has added 29 new art organizations from 14 countries to its Google Art Project, which makes paintings, sculptures, street art, and photographs viewable online. These include the Istanbul Modern Art Museum, Art Gallery Of South Australia, Museum of Palazzo Vecchio, and Princeton University, to name a few.
In addition to the new art, Google has added some new features to the Art Project experience. There is a new “Compare” button on the toolbar on the left of the screen for each painting.
“This allows you to examine two pieces of artwork side-by-side to look at how an artist’s style evolved over time, connect trends across cultures or delve deeply into two parts of the same work,” explains Piotr Adamczyk from Google Art Project.
View The Google Art Project here.
The Martian Chronicles
Nasa commissions artist to recreate scientists’ childhood fantasies of exploring the red planet via Mail One
Artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick were asked by NASA to create photographs depicting their fantasies of Mars, the planet they had pretended to explore since they were young.
Chair Designs You’ve Never Seen
These are pretty nifty! Yes, I said nifty. I like that word 
For more chair designs, check out: 17 Cool and Unusual Chairs
Laundry Chair
Multifunctional chair with integrated laundry bag for your clothing. [link]
Shadow Chair
Gravity defying chair with two legs is supported by a metal shadow. [link]
Pencil Chair
Oyster Chair
When folded it is a cushion, when unfolded it a comfortable chair. [link]
Walrus Chair
Tube Chair
Unusual chair made out of tubes by talented designer Tom Price. [link]
Corner Chairs
Sugar Chair
Candy inspired chair made out of pure sugar by Pieter Brenner. [link]
Silhouette Chair
Modern chair designed to be easily transformable into a bench. [link]
Rhino Chair
Silk Chair
Chair consists of silk thread tightened around a bearing oak frame. [link]
Mini Cooper Chair
David Gawthorpe transformed front end of a real car into a chair. [link]
Bamboo Chair
Tea ceremony chair made by Japanese designer Hiroki Takada. [link]
Melting Chair
Unique chair by Philipp Aduatz designed to look like it is melting. [link]
Inception Chair
Amazing chair by Vivian Chiu is made out of ten smaller chairs. [link]
