Patta Paintings are commonly known as Patta Chitra and is quite a popular art in West Bengal and Odisha. It's a traditional art done on a piece of cloth, mostly surrounding around folk tales and mythological stories. Patta paintings are theme based art with lot of motifs and bright colors. Patta paintings are known to exist from 5 B.C, where great tales were drawn on a piece of cloth, resembling a scroll. Odisha is the land of Lord Jaganath, so most patta paintings are stories based on Lord Jaganath and his followers. The artists are known as chitrakars and most of them hail from the village Raghurajpur, which is quite popular for it's craftsmanship. Every family in the village practise this passed and the tradition has been passed on from many generations. The preparation of the canvas for the patta painting is unique. First a cheese cloth is coated with gum which is made of tamarind seeds mixed along with white stone powder. The base ingredient for the patta painting is the gum of the kaitha tree. Only natural colors are used for such paintings. Nowadays arts create patta paintings on palm leaves, toys and many more.
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Hyper realistic paintings : Young sung Kim is a Korean artist born in Seoul in 1973. After graduating from the Department of Painting, College of Fine Art, Hongik University in 1997, he has tan numerous roles, but his passion is for hyper realistic paintings which seem to largely focus on minute things. Young Sung kim adores the little amphibians and smallest creatures and we can see that through his hyper realistic paintings. Through is paintings he seems to tell us to enjoy the little things in life, they are of great value to us. Kim's paintings are part of numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Seoul City Museum of Art, Art Retreat Museum and many more. From the year 2000, Young sum kim's focus has been primarily on snails, beetles, frogs and fishes. Most of his paintings have these small animals taking rest in mason jars, glasses, cups and spoons. He seems to stress on the fact that both man made objects and other forms can co-exist naturally in this world. From his hyper realistic paintings, you can see the sheen of the metal, clear glass bottles, which sometimes makes you wonder if they are for real. Enjoy these beautiful hyper realistic paintings by Young sum kim and be amazed.
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Business Cards for Photographers: Designing your business cards in a very trendy fashion and making it memorable would help your identity to stay out of the trash bin after you the end of your discussion. Business cards are the most effective offline way to promote and advertise your business. Your Business card speaks for as brand and they are a good and effective tool to impress and maintain relationship with your clients. A business card creates a physical connection and bond between you or your business and your customers. Just like in a website, business cards can become great interactive elements, but with the added ability to have real textures, different materials and shapes. In this post we have added 10 Photography Business Card Design templates.
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Bridal Mehndi designs: Darcy Vasudev alias Gori Mehndiwali is a henna artist based from San Francisco. Apart from bridal henna mehndi designs Darcy also does contemporary mehndi designs on 100% appointment basis. Henna is known for its healing properties and sometimes even associated to fertility. Henna does not create permanent stain on the skin, so if you are looking for a healthier version of tatoos, then one should try out these mehndi designs created by Darcy Vasudev. Darcy believes that every body is beautiful and deserves to be pampered regardless of gender. In this post we have included 20 beautiful bridal mehndi designsby Darcy Vasudev for your inspiration.
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Package Design: Yarza Twins collaborated with HP and Smirnoff to create these swanky package designs which were made using the free beta software which HP released recently. The software is Smartstream designer for Designers(D4D). This beta software is available for a limited time. Using this D4D, Yarza Twins turned bottles into artwork. According to Yarza Twins,"These bottles were printed with Indigo using 7 colours: CMYK, Orange, purple and green, allowing a colour palette that covers about 90% of Pantone colour range and making them look pretty similar to our project in RGB on the screen. We created more than 900 bodies and hats that would swap 9 colours, 21 different faces that represent diversity and 21 patterns made entirely from the shape of Smirnoff's iconic eyebrow logo all this combined created the special edition bottles, posters, t-shirts, tote bags etc. The project ended being an explosion of colour and shapes that represented the diversity in our world living in harmony". These bottle were put up for display in London at event with instructions as to how they can be easily created using the smart D4D.
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Paper Art by Marina Adamova: Marina Adamova is a freelance paper artist and illustrator from Moscow. Her first creation in paper art was the beautiful fairytale story "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in paper art. From then on, her passion for paper art grew and she loves to narrate wonderful stories through his paper artwork. Her first paper art of Alice(25*25cm) was exhibited in Moscow. Marina Adamova is also known as Talamaska in the social media sites. In this post we have added 20 Beautiful Paper Art by Marina Adamova for your inspiration. Moscow-based craftsman Marina Adamova makes great pictures and outlines out of cut paper. Adamova's topic ranges from famous people to nature to business work. Paper is such a fragile medium and Marina Adamova loves to create detailed stories of paper cuts with his sharp knife and scissors. Marina Adamova charming creations are something out of the world.
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Illusion Art: Seeing double? Hidden inside these remarkable oil Paintings by Oleg Shuplyak lies a second layer of mind-blowing optical illusions. Behind carefully placed objects, characters, colouring and shadows, the Ukrainian painter has cleverly concealed a second figures. Blurring famous figures from art and culture with landscapes the ingenious artist's work requires a double take - or sometimes, minutes of staring - before the hidden images reveal themselves. His passion was always painting, however, and he has used the technical precision of an architect to create these intriguing optical illusions. Often his paintings depict famous historical figures like Charles Darwin, Vincent van Gogh and William Shakespeare. Ocampo has dubbed this the metamorphic style, and in his works the second image can sometimes be so subtle it is hard to discern without squinting. I hope you like Oleg Shuplyak's Optical illusion art works,
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Alex Senna is a Brazilian street artist who creates art with human relations loaded with emotional baggage and interwined with satire. He illustrates urban setting with a simple and clear emotional visual flavor. The illustrations are taken from the imagination of children - hearts, musical notes, balloons, birds to which he adds life through his black and white art. Alex gathers a popular appeal through his playful yet poetic narratives which express human love, romance, and relationships. His popular sketches on city walls ignites the hearts of viewers with happiness and love in simple, clear and straight from the heart. His illustrations are created mostly based on daily life moments with sense of fun and familiarity. All the small stories are interconnected, Senna says, and if one pays close attention, the threads that link them together come to light.
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Creative Sketch by Christoph Niemann: According to wikipedia,"Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, graphic designer, and author of several books including some children's books. After his studies in Germany, he moved to New York City in 1997". Christoph Niemann was born in 1970, Waiblingen, Germany.In this post we have added 25 Creative Sketch by Christoph Niemann for your inspiration.He creates these interesting sketches and incorporates them with the real world and photographs them, which are sometimes funny. Most of his sketch art has been published in the popular New York times magazine. He never leaves his house without a sketchbook and camera.By holding up his drawings between his camera and the sketch, he could augment them outside their edge or highlight visual junctures among the works of art and their surroundings, making a radical new display all the while.
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Sculpture by Henrique Oliveira: Henrique Oliveira is known for his unique form of sculptures. He uses plywood,fencing and PVC as his art medium. He collects these plywoods and other scrap items from dumpsters and landfills and creates these strange looking sculptures. After his graduation from social media at Escola Superior de Propaganda e- Marketing, in 1997, Henrique Oliveira returned back to his home city of Ourinhos. One often gets confused if he is a painter or a sculptor due to his unique style of art. Oliveira uses tapumes, which in Portugese can mean fencing, boarding, or walled in area - as the title for most of his massive establishments. Henrique Oliveira received a BFA in painting in 2004 and a masters in visual poetics in 2007 from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this post we have 20 Mind blowing Sculptures by Henrique Oliveira for your inspiration. Most of his sculptures seem to have forms bursting out of the walls. Twisted branches surrounding the pillars of the gallery and bursting out of the celing, it's looks as if it's a set for an alien movie.
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Manga drawings is quite popular in Japan. Even adults love to read comics which are based on these manga characters. Manga drawings are done on paper and using the digital softwares they are given life which are then used in manga story books. Ask any Japanese little girl, they will have many stories to tell about their special manga characters. In this post we have included 50 Beautiful Manga drawings for your inspiration.
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Paintings by Jimmy Lawlor: Jimmy Lawlor is an Irish artist from the town of Westport which is in the west of Ireland.At first working in the field of Illustration, Jimmy picked to dedicate the greater part of his opportunity to a profession in artistic work painting in the late 1990s. He is a thorough professional in the world of acrylic paintings and he has presented solo exhibitions for the past 15 years. If you are looking for surreal, quirky or even humourous paintings, then you will surely love the paintings of Jimmy Lawlor. He is a surreal artist who is highly creative in his imagination. In this post we have added 25 Acrylic Paintings by Jimmy Lawlor for your Inspiration. Before becoming a surreal artist he was working for Disney animation in the commercial poster art and cinematic animation. Through his paintings he brings to life the rural life Ireland. The way he says surreal is "Su-rural-ism", because he creates comic characters of events happening in Ireland.
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Sculpture by Stefanie Rocknak: Stephanie Rocknak is a New york based wood sculptor. She was born in a wood working family, her mother used to do antique retouches and father used to refurnish old buildings into a new ones. According to Rocknak's bio,"I have been around woodworkers for as long as I can remember—while growing up, my mother meticulously refinished countless pieces of antique furniture and for a while, my father worked as a professional carpenter (as well as an art teacher). My grandfather also had a wood shop at his boat yard (Rocknak's Yacht Basin) in Forked River, New Jersey. In between swinging on the travel lift and sniffing around the docks, my brothers and I would sneak into his shop and create giant piles of saw dust and then blow them up with a bike pump, volcano style. My brother Russ still has the wood robot that he made during this time. And after my family moved to Maine in 1972, I was fortunate enough to get to know Ted Hanks, a master bird-carver. I especially remember picking up a life-size body of one his birds before the wings were attached and thinking, how did he do this?". At the age of 11, she along with her father did a sculpture of a face in wood. Eventhough she was born in New york, her numerous trips around Europe is the inspiration behind her figurative sculptures. She has presented many solo exhibitions in many places and has also been awarded numers awards and grants for her exquisite work. She currently works as a professor of Philosophy in Hartwick College, Oneonta.In this post we have added 20 Beautiful figurative Sculptures by Stefanie Rocknak for your inspiration.
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