Masterpieces in Coffee

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts on November 7, 2009 at 7:39 am

You’ve probably heard all about the art of drinking coffee, but Karen Eland took that to a higher level and made an art of painting with coffee. Have a look at some of the world’s greatest masterpieces, such as Mona Lisa, or the scene from the Sistine Chapel expressed in espresso! Eland also talks about her technique and how it came about.

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The Van Gogh Letter Sketches

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on October 19, 2009 at 9:46 pm

A few people were lucky enough to be pan pals of a sort with Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh often added sketches or paintings to his letters, to illustrate what he wrote about. BibliOdyssey has a collection of these letter sketches, along with the letters that accompanied them. Link

 
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Bill Guffey, Google Street View Artist

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Travel & Places on September 14, 2009 at 3:19 am

If you look at his paintings, Bill Guffey may seem like the well-traveled artist. There are paintings of the landscape of Saint Martin la Plaine in France, houses in Anchorage, Alaska, and other far away places – but Bill have never set foot in any of them. Instead, he simply fired up his trusty Google Street View to find vistas to paint!

Ki Mae Heussner of ABC News Technology & Science has the story of how Google offered views of the world to a Kentucky artist:

To reach the closest Wal-Mart, Guffey said he needs at least 30 minutes in the car. But with 30 seconds on his computer, he can fly around the world with Google Street View and paint any place his cursor lands.

Not only does the mapping tool give Guffey and other users a street-level window to many places in the world, it lets them navigate 360-degree horizontal and 290-degree vertical unbroken panoramas.

"I live in a very rural area," the 45-year-old said of the Burkesville, Ky. home he shares with his wife and two daughters. "Here, I can go out and I can paint cows all day, barns all day … With Street View, I can find things I normally wouldn’t see here."

Link to ABC News article | Bill’s Gallery of Google Street View Paintings | Bill’s Blog

 
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Intricate 3D Paintings

Posted by Jill Harness in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else on July 29, 2009 at 9:09 pm

These incredibly lifelike paintings were created by John Pugh who calls his artwork “trick of the eye.”

The Californian-born artist said: ‘It seems almost universal that people take delight in being visually tricked.’

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Internet Memes as Fine Art

Posted by John Farrier in Arts & Crafts, Book & Lit on July 21, 2009 at 6:42 pm

Can a dramatic prairie dog be fine art? If you’re looking for squirrels in underpants or zombies in romantic moonlight, then this oil painting and others like it are for you. They’re availabe at McPhee. I can’t find a general directory of these meme-themed works, but if you look at the related products section at the link, you’ll find more more like it.

Link via Nerd Approved

 
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Jackson's Junk to be Sold at Auction

Posted by Stacy in Odd News on February 19, 2009 at 6:52 pm

I guess this is proof that Michael Jackson thought pretty highly of himself at one point. This commissioned portrait of Jackson alongside luminaries such as Einstein, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and… E.T.?… will be for sale when Jackson gets rid of a bunch of his curiosities in April. Other objects include the famous white glove, the gates from Neverland Ranch, the scissor gloves from Edward Scissorhands and the robot mask from Jackson’s Moonwalker movie.

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Video Interview with Robot Painter Brian Despain

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Media, Movies & SciFi, Video Clips on February 18, 2009 at 7:29 pm


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Artist Brian Despain is a fantastic painter with a unique subject – robots. In this video, Roq La Rue Gallery’s Kristen Anderson and Kenny Montana interview Despain about his art, his inspiration and why he’s so passionate about robots.

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Artistic Murder Weapons Slay Me

Posted by Jill Harness in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Funny on February 5, 2009 at 12:40 am

Artist Liz McGrath is selling personalized painted butcher knives just in time for Valentine’s Day. There are two designs, the one shown and one with a cute little mouse on the blade. Each cleaver comes with its own box. They’re only $25 and the perfect way to tell that special someone “till death do us part.”

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The Prado Museum Masterpieces in Google Earth

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Blog & Internet, Science & Tech on January 18, 2009 at 1:32 pm

It may not be exactly the same as standing in front of masterpiece paintings by the Old Masters, but if you can’t make the plane trip to Madrid, Spain, it’s still pretty darn neat.

Google just launched a Google Earth feature that lets you view select paintings from The Prado Museum in astonishing details:

The Prado Museum has become the first art gallery in the world to provide access to and navigation of its collection in Google Earth. Using Google Earth, art historians, students and tourists everywhere can zoom in on and explore the finer details of the artist’s brushwork that can be easily missed at first glance.

The paintings have been photographed in very high resolution and contain as many as 14,000 million pixels (14 gigapixels). With this high level resolution you are able to see fine details such as the tiny bee on a flower in The Three Graces (Las Tres Gracias), delicate tears on the faces of the figures in The Descent from the Cross (El Descendimiento) and complex figures in The Garden of Earthly Delights (El Jardin de las Delicias)

Link (with a pretty nifty embedded YouTube clip for those of us who don’t have Google Earth installed) – via The Lede Blog

 
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Channeling Vermeer

Posted by Queuebot in Everything Else on January 12, 2009 at 12:57 pm

Jonathan Janson paints today’s interwebby people  in a 17th c. Dutch sort of way.  Among his works are Girl in a Red Cap, Young Man with a Cell Phone, and my favorite, Young Girl Writing an Email.

Janson’s paintings have the luminous quality that made Vermeer famous, and his website, Essential Vermeer, indicates he’s spent a lot of time studying the master. He’s learned some good lessons.

Link – via miamakila

 
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Ju Duoqi's Vegetable Art

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Food & Drinks, Pictures on November 28, 2008 at 3:45 pm


Mona Tofu by Ju Duoqi

Chinese artist Ju Duoqi, 35, specializes in a unique art medium: vegetables! (well, technically digital veggies – but who cares?). Behold her masterpiece above, the veggie Mona Lisa ("Mona Tofu") made out of rice, sea kelp, and tofu.

In The Vegetable Museum series, she revisits in a stunning way some masterpieces of the western painting. Making use of vegetables and food of China’s everyday life – tofu, cabbage, ginger, lotus roots, coriander, sweet potato… – and through digital manipulation, she presents a puzzling series of vegetable compositions representing world famous paintings like Mona Lisa, The Cene by Leonard Da Vinci, The Dream by Pablo Picasso or Marilyn Monroe by Warhol.

Here are a few more:


Napoleon on Potatoes by Ju Duoqi


Van Gogh made of Leek by Ju Duoqi

See many more at Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery: Link – via Compass WebWorks

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Movie Family Paintings

Posted by Robert Birming in Arts & Crafts, Movies & SciFi on August 26, 2008 at 3:29 am

Kirk Demarais from Arkansas has created a series of lovely paintings of notable movie families as his contribution to this year’s Crazy 4 Cult art show.

Link – via kottke

 
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New Amazing Sidewalk Art by Julian Beever

Posted by Robert Birming in Arts & Crafts on December 6, 2007 at 4:27 pm

Julian Beever, the chalk artist who draws 3-D illusions in city streets (previously covered at Neatorama), has been busy making some new amazing paintings.

Link – via ebr303

 
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