Rob the Barber | Photo Realistic Hair Artist (26 pics)

Rob the Barber | Photo Realistic Hair Artist — Rob the Original is a Barber from Los Angeles, California now living in San Antonio, Texas.  Upon moving to San Antonio he aspired to be an artist never imagining himself a barber, but when he combined the two his passion was born.  With his background in drawing, combined with his professional barber skills, 'Rob The Original' has changed the way we look at haircuts.  He has pioneered a new way of thinking about what a barber does.  He’s not just a barber he’s also a Hair Artist. From simple fades to complex designs and portraits the boundaries of normal barbers do not apply to Rob. This allows for a haircut more original than any other.

Detailed Hand Cut Paper Art | by Maude White (22 pics)

Stunning Detailed Hand Cut Paper Art by Maude White — These intricate paper arts are made by Maude White from Buffalo, New York. Each illustration is hand cut and can involve thousands of minute cuts giving the works an extreme feel of density and texture. White works by hand, using a craft knife to cut tiny lines and draw images with the paper’s empty negative space. The painstaking detail with which she cuts her beautiful illustrations out of paper is absolutely stunning.

A Mom Creates Daily Napkin Art for her Kids Lunchtime (32 pics)

A Mom Creates Daily Napkin Art for her Kids Lunchtime — Talented artist Nina Levy creates daily napkin art for her kids lunch helps her special bond with sons. Nina is a photographer, illustrator and sculptor based in Brooklyn N.Y. and she draws these napkins with waterproof markers for the last six years since when her older son started nursery school. She has doodled almost 2,000 masterpieces so far with special messages, incredible cartoons and popular characters on square paper napkins often with special requests from her young sons, 9 year old Archer and 5 year old Ansel.

Creative Pregnant Belly Bump Painting (30 pics)

Creative Pregnant Belly Bump Painting — These Pregnancy Bump Murals are truly creative and  Beautiful. Belly Bump Painter (My Little Sweet-pea) living in Cornwall, England with her husband and two children. As well as painting bumps she paint murals, faces, portraits, canvasses and much more.

Giant Gravity Defying | Sculptures by Gerry Judah (22 pics)

Giant Gravity Defying Sculptures by Gerry Judah — Artist and designer Gerry Judah has created a stunning centerpiece for the Goodwood Festival of Speed in southern England. His towering sculptures are monuments to the history and thrill of motor sports, and a dazzling treat for the eye. Gerry's sculpture entirely made of steel and although the design looks simple, it’s actually extremely complex, because the structure has to be rigid and completely balanced without the need for hundreds of supporting props. The total weight of the structure is 40 tonnes and it took 12 men four weeks to fabricate, assemble and install real cars from the world's leading corporations Porsche, Ferrari, Jaguar, Audi, Mercedes Benz, Ford, Renault, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Honda, Alfa Romeo and Land Rover.

Incredible Colored Pencils Portraits by Heather Rooney (26 pics+Vdo)

Incredible Colored Pencils Portraits by Heather Rooney — Heather Rooney a 20 year old young college student has created a name for herself on the Internet for its incredible realistic sketches. She creates photo realistic drawings using different mediums such as prismacolor colored pencils, markers, paints etc to create a beautiful piece. Most of all she loves to paint faces of modern celebrities. She does so well that they look like a real printed picture in the end. Talented Rooney takes about two and a half hours to finish a piece, which is fast for the work of these incredible portraits.

Iconic Scrap Metal | Animal Sculptures by John Lopez (21 pics)

Iconic Scrap Metal Animal Sculptures by John Lopez — Artist John Lopez uniquely created these life sized scrap metal animal sculptures based in the town of Lemmon, South Dakota. The 43 year old artist who welds the pieces from abandoned farm machinery created full size representations of creatures including a bison, a cowboy, a horse plowing a field and a Texas Longhorn cattle. John has been working on the past ten years, already had a career as a bronze sculptor, but after creating a family grave for his deceased aunt using scrap metal, he began creating recycled metal sculptures out of found or donated pieces of metal as well.

Stunning Paintings on Micro Objects by Hasan Kale (29 pics)

Stunning Paintings on Micro Objects by Hasan Kale — Nothing is impossible for talented Turkish artist 54 year old Hasan Kale. He paints realistic landscapes in his native city of Istanbul, using unexpected items. Kale creates fantastic various micro landscapes and portraits painted on insects, coins, food, matchsticks, and other small objects on everything from coffee beans to chili pepper seeds. His unique paintings leave far behind all the artists who use traditional canvas to create his paintings.

Geometric Shapes | Land Art by Using Natural Materials (13 pics)

Geometric Shapes Land Art by Using Natural Materials — German artist Dietmar Voorwold lives in Scotland, where he creates beautiful and ephemeral work of land art by adding stones, leaves and other natural materials in a simple but beautiful geometric shapes and patterns. Voorwold studied Graphics and Photography and later Art Therapy, which kept him immersed in the visual arts and made him appreciate its therapeutic features. Finding great inspiration in the Scottish landscape, the artist spends most of his time there creating land art installations and organizing art therapy workshops.

Everyday Objects Transformed into Stunning Hidden Characters (28 pics)

Everyday Objects Transformed into Stunning Hidden Characters — French Artist Gilbert Legrand is a creative, talented illustrator and graphic designer from Toulouse, France. For the past 10 years, he has been finding the hidden characters in everyday objects creating funny stories in everything that he sees in his surrounding. With the help of paint he transforms everyday domestic household objects into stunning funny tiny sculptures. A little imagination and an adjustable addition of a face and maybe some arms and legs a wrench stuff turns into a sly fox, a hinge can become a shady salesman, a juicer becomes a woman emerging from a pool and scissors turns into a kissing couple.

New Craze of Buffalo Body Painting Contest in China (11 pics)

New Craze of Buffalo Body Painting Contest in China — A buffalo is led to the stage of an international buffalo body painting competition held in Jiangcheng County, Southwest China's Yunnan Province. Artists from 8 countries showcased their painted buffaloes to compete for a 100,000 yuan ($16,042) prize reward at the competition on Sunday, according to local media. Buffalo body painting is a popular entertainment in this area. A total of 48 water buffaloes were covered in brightly colored body paint. Every buffalo was painted by a group consisting of 3 to 7 artists from United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Finland, New Zealand, Vietnam, Laos & China.

Amazing Mud & Dust Art on a School Walls (18 pics)

Amazing Mud & Dust Art on a School Walls — Each year, in the remote village of Sujata is one of India’s poorest States Bihar, East India at the Niranjana Public Welfare School organizes the Wall Art festival. These intricate murals are made entirely from mud, dust, ash, and straw in order to raise awareness for the school. In this festival, two artists, one from India, the other from Japan, will each draw on the majority of the wall in two separate classrooms, in one session. Unfortunately the picture won't be left, remaining for only short time. However, the spark of the moment at drawing and at erasing will live on forever.

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Photoshop Artist John Wilhelm's Humorous Photo Manipulations (18 pics)

Photoshop Artist John Wilhelm's Humorous Photo Manipulations — Humorous photographer John Wilhelm bringing fantasy to life with a huge imagination aid of his own images and photo editing software Photoshop. John is a 44 year old IT Director at a Swiss university with a passion for photography and digital art.  Some of his most wonderfully creative photo manipulation extraordinaire, striving to take over the world of photography with his girlfriend Judith and their three young daughters – Lou (5.5 years), Mila (2.8 years) and Yuna (6 months). 

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A Massive Wave Made out of 3,000 Barbie Dolls (9 pics)

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A Massive Wave Made out of  3,000 Barbie Dolls — Inspired her own childhood memories, Belgium based artist  Annette Thas created a massive collection of Barbie dolls entitled 'Wave 1' for this year featured at the 10th annual Sculptures by the Sea exhibition in Cottlesoe, Australia. Wave 1 is 12 feet wide and towers 9 feet above viewers, the wave of Barbie dolls have each been individually woven together. Annette who collected over 3,000 used dolls from second hand stores and sales to complete this epic work of art. Each Barbie is supposed to be a symbol of the doll's former owner, too.

30 Creative Customized Manhole Covers in Japan

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30 Creative Customized Manhole Covers in Japan — Japan is a country full of amazing art. Some of it is housed within museums and galleries while about Japan’s peculiar obsession with manhole covers. Just about anywhere in the country you can find stylized manhole covers. The plates that cover the manholes are often painted and decorated with motifs. These motifs mostly represent a specialty of the city where they are installed.

A Waterfall Built out of Recycled Toilets (12 pics)

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A Waterfall Built out of Recycled Toilets — Chinese Artist Shu Yong who along with his team spent over 2 months installing toilets to produce a public 'masterpiece'- a waterfall made out of toilets. Artist mounted thousands of toilets, urinals and sinks which covering a wall 100 meters long and almost 5 meters of height.at the Foshan Pottery and Porcelain Festival. Foshan - a city in central Guangdong province in China. The toilets are flushed making a waterfall is connected to a tap, giving it the ability to flush itself and even mimic a cascading waterfall to the amusement of the onlookers. This amazing waterfall built out of 10,000 recycled toilets, sinks and urinals, which are the unwanted factory seconds and those donated by tourists and locals.

Incredible Portraits Recreated with Recycled Objects (8 pics)

Incredible Portraits Recreated with Recycled Objects — British artist Jane Perkins obtains her inspiration in found objects. This set of artworks is composed by some impressive recreations of famous paintings and photographs. She uses anything from toys, shells, buttons, beads, jewelry etc. as material for her re-interpreted contemporary art. She never changes the original color of the objects she uses, so the result is all about her talent and her impressive attention for the detail, that is what really make her artworks so recognizable.

Creative Artist Jodi Gives Old Books a Second Life (16 pics)

Creative Artist Jodi Gives Old Books a Second Life — Artist Jodi Harvey Brown alters old books and gives them a second life by making beautiful sculptures out of their pages. These wonderful 3D sculptures of paper take a whole new look at the idea of a “pop-up” book. Well known fictional characters, sea creatures, monsters, ships and aircraft are brought to life by Jodi’s vivid imagination and her great passion for reading. Jodi began book sculpting after being unable to resist a box of used books at a second hand shop. After folding the pages of one that had been crushed in the bottom of the box, she was hooked. Each sculpture is a little more complicated than the one before it, and at times Jodi includes hand illustrated figures drawing was her first love. Her husband encouraged her to show her work on an artist community and it was there she realized book sculpture is a valid art form.

Incredible Wraped Wire Sculptures Art (21 pics)

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Incredible Wraped Wire Sculptures Art — Based in Brooklyn, Seung Mo Park is a Korean sculptor who creates incredibly detailed metallic sculptures using neat lines of aluminum wire. He starts with a fiberglass casting that he then covers up with row upon row of painstakingly bent to shape aluminum wires that precisely recreates everything from wavy hair to wrinkled clothing to the sinuous musculature of the human form. Each figure in his Human series of sculptures presents a remarkable attention to the delicate form of the human body as well as the naturally flowing condition of draped garments.

Creative Way to Capture Dance Motions on Paper (19 pics)

Creative Way to Capture Dance Motions on Paper — Heather Hansen, a contemporary performance artist and dancer in New Orleans, has come up with an elegant and creative way to capture her dancing motions on paper – she gets up-close and personal with a big piece of paper and some charcoal.