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Dollface: Bizarre Portraits Made from Repurposed Toy Parts by Freya Jobbins Using dismembered plastic parts from old dolls and other toys, artist Freya Jobbins assembles these exceedingly strange portraits of people and pop culture icons. Chances are when viewing these you fall firmly into one of two camps: the highly amused or the highly disturbed. Regard

Conrad Jon Godly's Abstract Mountains Drip from the Canvas sol H, 2012, 35x35 cm sol H, detail sol 13, 2013, 35x28 cm sol 16, 2013, 75x60 cm sol 43, 2013, 85x70 cm sol 56, 2013, 47x40 cm sol 15, 2013, 67x50 cm tony wuethrich satellite, zürich When looking at Swiss painter Conrad Jon Godly's mountainous paintings, it takes a moment to truly app

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11-Year-Old Artist Creates Amazingly Detailed Drawings of Wildlife Meet Dušan Krtolica, one of the most talented 11-year-olds ever. The Serbian child prodigy is a master artist who creates stunningly detailed, nature-inspired…

271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book In 1692 an artist known only as "A. Boogert" sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two,

‘8-Bit Watercolors' Explore the Intersection of Pop Culture and Retro Video Game Graphics The Kiss Bob Ross Mona Lisa at the Louvre Mona Lisa The Selling of "The Scream" Wonder Woman A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Inspired in part by the 8-bit graphics of old Atari and Nintendo game graphics from his youth, artist Adam Lister paints quirky watercolor

New Blurred Cityscapes by Valerio D'Ospina Cattedrale di Milano (2014). Oil on canvas, 40 x 40in. Manhattan (2013). Oil on panel, 35 x 48in. Driving on Madison Avenue (2013). Oil on panel, 48 x 24in. Broadway and West 25th (2013). Oil on panel, 24 x 16.5in. Duomo di Milano (2012) Oil on linen, 39 x 56in. / Facade (2012). Oil on panel, 24

How do you see color?

How we see color - Colm Kelleher There are three types of color receptors in your eye: red, green and blue. But how do we see the amazing kaleidoscope of other colors that make up our world? Colm Kelleher explains how humans can see everything from auburn to aquamarine.

Here is what some 8th Grade Art students have been doing in Bangkok, Thailand.

Y9 Mostly, great work kids and big thanks to Ms Sandra for completing these projects whilst I was on maternity leave.

Don't base your work on Google Images.
Rather than have his subjects sit for him or use printed photographs, Bush seems to have based his portraits on the first picture thrown up by the search engine.

George Bush's paintings bear uncanny resemblance ... to Google images Art critics point out that 30 portraits of world leaders appear to have been based on photos thrown up by search engine

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Sometimes symmetry works...

Fascinating Video Explores Director Wes Anderson's Masterful Use of Symmetry A new video celebrating the composition style of director Wes Anderson is currently making the rounds on the Internet: a beautiful ode to the power of symm