Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Amazing Street Art In Dublin By El Mac
Posted by: notbeige on: August 13, 2010
- In: Art | Street Art
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I love it when El Mac‘s blog posts land in my reader, and I was delighted to see that he’s been working his magic right here in Dublin as part of the Kings Of Concrete festival a few weeks ago. Check it out here and here.
More Repurposed & Upcycled Homewares On Etsy
Posted by: notbeige on: May 25, 2010
- In: Art | Crafts | home | Interiors | Repurposing
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This is a sequel to my previous post, Repurposed & Upcycled Homewares On Etsy, which has had lots of positive feedback so without further ado here’s more of the same. I love putting posts like this together, the only drawback is trying to narrow down my choices from all the creative awesomeness Vintage Map Art [...]
Photorealistic Minimalism – Paintings by Nigel Cox
Posted by: notbeige on: January 27, 2010
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Nigel Cox is an Irish born, London based artist whose oil on canvas paintings, in his own words – ‘Focus on the individual, removing them from usually crowded urban scenes and placing them in centre stage. Surprising how much confidence they have when removed from the crowd.’ I think I understand exactly what he means [...]
Driving In The Rain… Photorealistic Paintings by Gregory Thielker
Posted by: notbeige on: December 1, 2009
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I think everybody has one genre of art that calls to them more than others, and for me it’s photorealism because it makes me nostalgic in a way that actual photographs can’t. These paintings by Gregory Thielker transported me straight away back to Sunday family drives in the country and Christmas shopping trips into town [...]
Photosculpture by David Meanix
Posted by: notbeige on: November 30, 2009
- In: Art | Inspiration
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I’ve been seeing a lot of really cool photosculpture which seems to have surfaced all at once recently, and it always puts me in mind of the amazing art of David Meanix on my favourite show in the world, HBO’s Six Feet Under (which sadly ended in 2005). Davids’ photosculpture, which he has been developing [...]
Realistic Fabric Sculpture by Lisa Lichtenfels
Posted by: notbeige on: November 29, 2009
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These wonderfully lifelike fabric sculptures are made by Lisa Lichtenfels, who having graduated from the Philadelphia College Of Art with majors in illustration and film, worked for Disney making three dimensional figures with posable skeletons for stop motion animations. She left Disney in order to explore and develop this medium further, and has been making [...]
Sam Jinks’ Lifelike Silicon Sculptures
Posted by: notbeige on: November 28, 2009
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Sam Jinks is a Melbourne based sculptor with a background in film and television effects. He creates full sized silicon models which look as if they might move or breathe at any moment. This interview with Sam over at Australian Edge goes into his background, inspiration and creative process. (Some of the images with the [...]
‘Paralysis Of Choice’ – Jon Burgerman at Electrik Sheep
Posted by: notbeige on: November 28, 2009
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Many thanks once again to Laura over at Electrik Sheep for sending details of their latest wonderful exhibition, ‘Paralysis Of Choice’ by Jon Burgerman, which runs until the end of December. The press release: What most see as a discarded piece of cardboard littering a side street, Jon Burgerman sees as an opportunity; a blank [...]
Artist & Illustrator Nathan Ota
Posted by: notbeige on: November 28, 2009
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Nathan Ota is a freelance artist who graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1993. As a child he drew inspiration from cartoons on TV, comic books, photographs and punk-rock flyers before becoming immersed in graffiti culture once he entered high school. Traditional art never interested him much, and it [...]
Ralph Goings – Four Decades Of Realism
Posted by: notbeige on: November 23, 2009
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Ralph Goings is a realist painter based in California – he is recognised as one of the original members of the Hyper-Realist or Photo-Realist group of the late 1960′s. His painstakingly accurate work spans four decades, and one of the things I like most about his paintings is that the subject matter changes little over [...]
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