Will at A Journey Around My Skull asked readers to create bookplates in the style of the early-20th century magazine Der Orchideengarten (previously at Netaorama) for a contest. They were to include orchids and other flo...

If you took a look at the larger version of this sculpture (left), you'd immediately conclude that it was made out of Styrofoam.  As impressive as that would be, the real mind-blower here is that it's actually marble....

This is called anthropomorphic taxidermy art. It is a real squirrel dressed as Queen Victoria mounted in a shadow box perfect for hanging on your wall. Crafted by Etsy seller lovedtodeath, this could be yours for onl...

Artist Nakisha Elsje VanderHoeven paints animals, most often rabbits. Her latest project is The Rabbit Tarot, consisting of 78 images of the classic cards featuring bunnies. She sells decks of them in her Etsy shop,...

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 lett...

[caption id="attachment_26859" align="aligncenter" width="319" caption="Posters by Matt Needle"][/caption] Remembering to keep it simple, Alfred Hitchcock fan/artist Matt Needle re-imagined a series of posters for the...

[caption id="attachment_26712" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Digital painting by Randis Albion"][/caption] Randis Albion is an artist whose work is all over the place thematically, but constantly awesome....

These terribly awesome monsters are products of the mind of New York artist Jason Hackenwerth. He makes both wearable balloon suits and balloon sculptures. Each creature takes about 8 hours to make, totally worth it...

What happens when you take an ordinary piece of fruit and start to doodle on it? Banana Art! "Bananastein" shown here is just one of many examples. Link From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Baierman....

Dale Chihuly makes some fascinating sculptures out of glass, as well as employing other odd methods, like painting with a common broom.  He's truly a talented artist, and worth a look-see. Link (Also, today's his...