In this instructional video Disney Master Artist John Quinn shows you how to draw Mickey Mouse like an expert. The drawing of Mickey Mouse is broken down into lines, circles and ellipses. Take a look:
Russian microminiaturist Vladimir Aniskinn makes art so tiny you need a microscope to see it. You can see some of his tiny pieces here on his website. Vladimir Aniskinn says you have to learn how to make movements between heartbeats in order to work effectively under a microscope. Take a look:
Franc Grom hand-drills thousands of holes into the shells of eggs to create his unique and fragile designs. The intricate work can take Franc Grom months for an egg that has tens of thousands of eggs. Reuters says his work is getting international recognition.
Hilary Berseth makes some amazing honeycomb art with the help of thousands of bees. New York Magazineexplains how it is done.
But Berseth's breakthrough came from an earlier hive, where the bees built him a remarkable spiral. "I was really happy with that one when I got it open. That was when I realized, Wow, you can sort of break the behavior"-that is, manipulate the bees' instincts about proportion and form. "You can plan out a certain amount of what's going to happen, and then that design will sort of ripple through, and then they'll begin to draw out combs and riff off that design."
Hilary admits to sometimes being stung by the bees. You can see more of Hilary Berseth's bee art here. (via Neatorama)
Brainforest is a very cool and unique art installation from Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger. The detail in the installation is extraordinary. The artists say that, "In the rain forest of the brain, the bio-diversity of thoughts proliferates and the intellect's short-circuits whirr in your eyes." You can see many more photographs of Brainforest here.
Artist Nathan Sawaya has made a name for himself as a lego artist. He talks to CBS News' Steve Hartman about some of his unique Lego sculptures. Nathan Sawaya is also the Lego artist behind the His and Hers life-size Lego sculptures
featured in this year's Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. Sawaya's website can be found at brickartist.com, which is a terrific domain name for him.
Collaborative Spreadsheet Art Generates Snowflakes
4 people worked together simultaneously on a single Google Docs spreadsheet to create this snowflake art. Each cell in the 100 row x 186 col spreadsheet was filled using 18 different colors. The entire process was captured in time-lapse and can be seen in the video below. The resources for creating your own Google Docs snowflake art can be found here. (via Mashable)
Martha Stewart has some cool Gourd Candles you can make for Fall decorations or for your Thanksgiving table. Martha warns to pick a gourd that has at least one flat side otherwise your gourd is going to fall over. She uses is a drill in this video to make the hole for the candle.
Bill Dan is a Rock Sculpture and Balance Artist in Sausalito, California. You can see him in action in the video below. It must take years of practice to be able to get rocks to do that with such ease. Bill Dan also has a blog here. (via Neatorama)
The exhibit from the Museum of Arts and Design by Korean artist Jean Shin shows a wave of no longer used vinyl records about to crash down. Soon you will be able to do the same thing with DVDs except they probably would not make as cool of a wave as the vinyl records. (via New York Times -> DVice)
Democratic candidate Barack Obama seems to be inspiring a lot of new original artwork and crafts. NPR reports that the artist of one of the most memorable Barack Obama posters has seen his work copied and sold repeatedly. There was lots of Obama art on display the Denver convention - see here and here. The Boston Globe has a story about Obama art including a sculptor selling his Obama soap scultpures on Etsy. There's 55 pages of Obama art on Etsy - see here. Finally, the video below discusses an art gallery in New York that has set-up an exhibition centered around Senator Barack Obama.
Cuprocking: Art With Plastic Cups in Chain Link Fences
PSFK reports that a street artist named Andy Uprock has been cuprocking. His art installations involve thousands of plastic cups inserted into chain link fences.
Andy Uprock is a street artist who's been creating pieces using plastic cups stuck in chain link fence. He often uses 2,000+ cups in his installations which later he recycles. The idea of using cups came to him from his childhood. His friends always used to stuff drink bottles into the fence while they were playing soccer. It was a chat with a fellow artist and friend about doing art on fences that sparked the memory. Andy's been circling the globe recently creating work in Barcelona, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Alphabeta in Greenpoint Brooklyn hosted a cuprocking exhibition last week.
Andy Uprock's website can be found here. It contains a gallery and a collection of videos. Here's a video of Andy Uprock cuprocking at the Oxford Art Factory.
Eighteen-year-old Tess Brownson of Golden, CO won The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts Poster Design Competition with the above poster. Brownson's clever illustration featured a pair of colorful sneakers walking on a sidewalk making it come alive with art from a plain black and white background.
Sponsored by The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts, the Poster Design Competition was created to recognize, encourage and reward artistic talent at the high school level. High school seniors with an interest in graphic design were eligible to enter the competition to express their visual interpretation of why "Life is Better With Art in It."
In addition to being awarded the grand prize of a $25,000 tuition scholarship to study at The Art Institute of Colorado, Tess will attend a Congressional Reception on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. with representatives from The Art Institutes, Americans for the Arts and invited members of Congress, honoring the work of the local winners in the competition.
Tess is excited to have the opportunity to study at The Art Institute of Colorado, and follow in the footsteps of her father, Matt, who graduated from The Art Institute of Colorado in 1990. "I was so excited that my piece was chosen. I spent a lot of time working on my entry and was happy to know that my hard work was rewarded."
"It is always a thrill for us to see what incredible artistic talent is out there among high school students. Not only can they create amazing artwork, but they have a point of view and a perspective that is mature and thoughtful," said John Mazzoni, President of The Art Institutes.
It's a great poster that clearly shows how art and color can make life more interesting. You can some of the finalists here on The Art Institues' website.
A clever New York City artist named Joshua Allen Harris turned trash bags into a fun art installation in the city. The trash bag art that Harris designed is placed on a subway grate. When the train passed underneath the trash art transforms into a giraffe or a bear. You can see the art in the AP video below.
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