From a veggie Mona Lisa –Mona Tofu, made out of rice, sea kelp, and tofu– to Van Gogh’s self portrait –made of leek–, meet vegetable artist Ju Duoqi‘s works. Mona Tofu, made out of rice, sea kelp, and tofu Van Gogh’s self portrait, made of leek The Scream of the Sweet Potatos The Anatomy Lesson …
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Light graffiti, also known as light painting, is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera;in most cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. Meet some of the best light …
1Melounovy Festival From 2006, the Melounovy Festival in the Czech Republic, reunites some of the best watermelon artists from around the world every year.We’ve selected some of their finest works below. 2Takashi Itoh’s Watermelons Japanese artist Takashi Itoh taught himself to carve watermelons on 2001.Since then, he has been creating some of the best figures …
All artists use pencils to draw and paint over their canvas, all but one. By the name of GhostPartol, this this australian artist creates beautiful works of art the other way around: using the pencils as canvas!A self-taught illustrator, he moved from the area of stencil art to exhibit his illustration work worldwide. His works …
Created by Tesla coils –a type of resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891–, its fascinating sparks come from discharges of very high voltage, low current, high frequency alternating current electricity. Until the 1920s, Tesla coil circuits were used commercially in sparkgap radio transmitters for wireless telegraphy, and in electrotherapy and quack medical …
Residents of Stourbridge, West Midlands (UK) and surrounding villages were having a pleasant surprise when they took their milk bottles. They would find pictures of animals, often cows or mice, carefully carved onto the glass in astonishing detail. The artist, called by neighbors as ‘bottle Banksy’, would take the used milk bottles from doorsteps and …
Born in Turin some 56 years ago, Marco Pece is an italian photographer with a fascination with Lego.An art lover himself, his recent work recreates famous paintings in perfect detail, using the ubiquitous bricks. After long hours “playing” with the bricks, the final artwork is a fabulous photograph. “I love to reconstruct celebrated paintings of …
Every summer in Catalonia, Spain, teams of “Castellers” can be seen competing against each other to see who can build the highest human tower. Every catalan town has their own team or “Colla” made up of men, woman and children. Taking directions from a “Cap de colla” (Captain of the Colla), the Castellers form a …
1Inakadate’s Crop Art Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed “kodaimai” rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. They have been drawing pictures with rice since 1993; their artworks are visible until the rice is harvested each September. …
This self-described drag queen, former nudist, born again Christian, and 46-year-old artist from Michigancreates some of the most incredible and bizarre masks ever seen. Meet James Kuhn‘s face paintings. Popcorn Box Batman and Robin King Tutankhamun Sundae cup CheeseBurger Snorkeling Fox Zebra Corn Wheel of Fortune Lobster Kit-Kat Clock Medusa Papa Popcorn… SMURF! Cyclop