In The Name Of Art ↓

Let Yourself Feel

“The colors, man. It’s all about the colors, man.”

Street Art Made With Tape

“Buff Diss is an awesome Melbourne based artist who has recently stranded himself in Europe. Some of his work can be seen in Paris, Barcelona, Jerusalem… All his works are made free-hand with masking tape. Take a look how his friend Mark Mawson from Sydney captures these beautiful shots by dropping paint in water.” w/ photos

3D Phone Book Sculptures

“These amazingly detailed celebrity faces may look like sketches but they are in fact carved out of unwanted phone books. Sculptor Alex Queral, 51, from Philadelphia, has hand-crafted some of the world’s most famous faces including President Obama, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan and Spartan Kirk Douglas. With a deft hand he has even recreated health-battling actor Patrick Swayze and Sharbat Gula, the Afghan woman with amazing eyes who who was made famous by National Geographic magazine. And in an admirable green-fingered move, the artist got his idea and started chipping away when he noticed piles of unused phone books just lying around.” w/ photos

Amazing Sand Artist

“She’s drawing on sand. Timed to music. And animating it.”

An Artist With Multiple Personalities

“A talented artist suffering from a rare personality disorder produces 12 different kinds of paintings depending on which personality is ‘in control’. Kim Noble, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID), uses painting as a coping strategy to deal with some of her different personalities. But she discovered that 12 of her inner characters produce different artwork that is stunning in its own way. It is now selling in galleries for several figures and credited to whichever of her personalities produced it. A TV documentary, which is yet to be screened, shows how the single mother-of-one began painting as a potential therapy to her condition. Her brilliant achievements have earned her plaudits across the art world and many of her paintings have now been shown in 27 exhibitions and galleries across Europe over the last four years.” w/ photos

Stunning Sculptures Using Coloring Pencils

“An artist has created a stunning series of sea urchin sculptures made entirely from coloured pencils. American sculptor Jen Maestre can spend up to two months on each of her intricate creations, inspired by the sea creature’s organic form. The 49-year-old must cut hundreds of sharpened pencils into one-inch sections for each piece, drilling a hole in every one so they can be stitched together. Ms Maestre’s obsession with prickly creatures began while studying at Massachusetts College of Art. ‘I found that nails, pushed through window screen worked well, and I could use many different types and textures and colors of nails.’ She started making her pencil sculptures ten years ago and her work has since been featured in countless exhibitions and sculpture shows.” w/ photos

An Artist’s Race Against The Tide

“When artists see a canvas, most of them want to fill it, even if it’s with nothing more than a doodle. But sand artist Andres Amador works with one of the biggest canvases available, with entire lengths of beaches swallowed up by his art. Sadly the sea is no discerning art critic, for once the San Francisco artist finishes his staggering artwork, the waves come in to wipe the slate clean. Many of his stunning images, which start out as simple squiggles in the 39-year-old’s notebook, span an incredible 500×300feet and are raked into the grains in a race against the tide. Using a canvas crafted by the elements the patient American waits for a full or new moon to make sure low tides offer him plenty of space to muster the incredible patterns.And just a few hours after etching his grand designs the curves and contours will be washed away – leaving the beach surface looking as if nothing had ever happened.” w/ photos

Art Teacher Sketches Her Own Mugger

“A 71-year-old retired art teacher, Jill Smith, used her sketching skills to help catch a thief who stole her handbag. Mrs Smith was quick to identify drug addict Lloyd Talbot grabbed her handbag in a DIY store car park. The grandmother was asked by police to describe the thief – but she did better than that by penning a remarkable likeness from memory. Talbot, a convicted criminal, was identified by police officers who saw the sketch, and was handed a suspended jail sentence at Gateshead Magistrates’ Court on Monday. Mrs Smith, who lives in Derwentside, County Durham, said: “He picked on the wrong person. It was hard luck on him really.” w/ photos

Incredible Paintings By 6-Year-Old Boy

“A street scene from the paintbrush of a child usually involves triangle-topped boxes for houses. And often an unnaturally large dog. But Kieron Williamson’s attempts are so beautifully rendered that artists ten times his age will be filled with envy. Experts have said that the six-year-old’s atmospheric paintings, which began with harbour scenes and expanded to include rural vistas, animal portraits and landmarks, have perspective, shadow and reflections that demonstrate an ability well beyond his years.” w/ photos

The Artistic Bench

“This designer is perhaps most well known for his remarkable wooden spaghetti benches in which the normal ends of wood slats become the beginning of a seemingly living form that twists and turns away from the conventional shape of the bench itself – and just imagine what an outdoor version of this bench would look like against, for example, an ivy-covered brick wall.” w/ photos