Body Painting - Human Chameleon Mimics Celebrities

Visual Artist and Cosmetologist Jan Bonito is a Human Chameleon that is capable to change his feature to cross the race, gender and age divide.  He mostly replicates faces of celebrities and people in the news, we will showcase them in wips (work in progress) and some videos.  They are all very good but, some are really amazing, looking incredibly like the person they were modelled upon.  If you could be another person for a day, who would you be and why?  Let us know in the comment section at the end of the post.

Photo Realistic Rainy Windshield Paintings

Beautifully different choice of subject by Irish Artist Francis McCrory.  He takes a point of view that most artist wouldn't consider, in these amazing oil paintings on canvas.  The point of these painting is unusual, it is taken from within a car looking through a wet windowscreen that, distorts and misshapens the subject viewed.  There is a sense of beauty in the distorted views that just approximate the forms of subjects depicted within them.

Maniac Pumpkin Carvers Introduce Halloween

Founders of Maniac Pumpkin Carvers, Marc Evan and Chris Soria started this incredible company that lights-up Halloween.  Because pumpkin growing spans from early September to late November, they try and cram-in as much as possible like: parties, classes, advertising, opening events and many more...  The seasonality of their work, means that they spend the other nine months of the year working as Illustrators, Muralists, Fine Artists and Craftsmen.  All that being said, they also have to set aside a lot of time for planning all the designs and events for the next season.  Enjoy...

Glass Knitted Sculptures

Qualifying as a Landscape Architect Carol Milne then found a love and passion for glass work.  As you will see in the video below, she has been knitting from the age of ten and one day while she was sitting, she asked herself if she could translate the form and the loops created when knitting with glass and this is how the sculptures started. As well as the video there are a lot of different variations of her designs.

6 Person Container Home Built in 3 Days

This project was a collaboration between Architects Ceardean and Builders Ripple, to re-fit this 40 by 10 feet (12m by 3m) container into a 6 person Home.  This project was started and finished in 3 days last year with up to 60 contractors working on it. The container home has been donated to the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) for emergency accommodation.  It has been designed to allow craftsmen with relatively low skill levels to be able to replicate the design, Ceardean have published plans and details to make this happen.  The cost of the conversion was 55,000 Euros but they believe that the costs can be cut to 25-35,000 Euros.
As well as many images and one video, we have included a link to another more complete video that we were not able to embed, this is the link: http://bcove.me/kq0zx5l5

Street Art with Ceramic Tiles Illustrations

Portuguese Artist Diogo Machado aka (Add Fuel) demonstrates the level of detail and beauty that you can bring to Street Art.  As a Visual and Graphics Artist, his creations were mostly based on the sci-fi universe, now he is concentrating on the on reinterpreting traditional tile designs.  This post can be divided in two parts, his tile applications on electrical junction boxes, where he gives the impression that the metal box has been torn away revealing the tiles below and the murals, that help uplift the building or the wall in which he works.  Enjoy this beautiful walk around the new neighbourhood.

Scratchboard Images of Animals and Architecture

Freelance Illustrator Michael Halbert has been a commercial artist for the last 40 years, for the first 10, he experienced various mediums, but he then settled and focused on scratchboard art. Scratchboard is defined by Wikipedia as "Sharp knives and tools that are used for etching into a thin layer of white China clay that is coated with black India ink".  For the coloured ones, more layers of clay in different colours are laid, so that the deeper the incision the more colours are available to the artist.  Links to other scratchboard art at the end.

Surreal Photo Manipulation to Suit your Mood

Turkish Student and Digital Artist Akşam Gunesi aka (beyzayildirim77), produces very different surreal images, some time exploring, various themes with the same background.  Mixed among these images are some thought provoking ones and some really cool/funny images, like the giraffe chilling out.  Surreal Images to suit what ever mood you are in.

Plastic Surgery using the Fibonacci Sequence

Russian Designer Igor Kochmala came up with a photo manipulation formula to create plastic surgery models based on the the mathematical formula of the Fibonacci sequence.  This formula pre-dates the 1200's and it is achieved by having the numbers 1 and 1, or 0 and 1 as a staring point.  Then it is the sum of the previous two numbers to form the sequence.  It also appears in biology, such as branching in trees, you can find more info about it on wikipedia.  I am not sure that this procedure will be very popular, but is nice to see alternatives.

Food Art - Macabre, Graphic and Funny

Former Sculptor Natalie Sideserf, now dedicates her artistic mastery, to producing this eclectic mix of characters from the macabre to the light hearted and funny.  She is well renowned in the cake making circles as a very talented producer of photo realistic sculptures on cake.  A warning before you begin, some of the sculptures are quite graphic, so now is the time to turn to a different post if you don't like that sort of thing...

100copies Emoji Bicycle Themed Drawings

This is another showing from Singaporean creative director Thomas Yang, who has a passion for art and cycling, which he loves to combine in his designs.  He creates bicycle themed art and only produces 100 copies of any given piece, hence the name of his company.  In today's post we are going to have a look at his Bike Emoji drawings and a few other.  If you want to look at his previous post, here is the link:  "Art From Bicycle Drawings in 100 copies" in which he uses bicycle wheels and ink to draw architectural icons.

Watercolours, Graphite and Gouache Drawings and Paintings

French Artist Nabil Nezzar uses a mixture of media, to create his contemporary drawings.  Watercolours, graphite and gouache, are used to give live to drawings and paintings, focusing on different part of the bodies.  On some, he concentrates on the face, on other, the upper portion of the body, the third category includes the three quarter length portrait and finally the portions that just focus on the clothing with no heads (plus one odd one out at the end).  A variety of poses, angles and subject matter, all inspiring.

Architecture - Pack and move your 22m² Micro Home

Austrian Gabrijela Tumbas Papic has come up with a design for a micro house, if you want to see more of them have a look at our Architecture Micro folder on the left.  The Micro House measures 22m² (237ft²) and just over 4m (13ft) in height.  It is designed to be disassembled and reassembled, making it reasonably easy to transport to different locations.  In the other posts, we have seen the designers make it a point to install large windows to create light and make the place look bigger.  Papic dots small windows all around the little home, maybe to make it more secure during transportation?  The heigh ceiling will make sure that it does not feel claustrophobic, but nice and cosy inside.

Photo Manipulation in Surreal GIF Animations

George Redhawk aka (DarkAngelØne) is classified as legally blind.  He now uses photo manipulation, to show other people how his eyes process images and how he sees them.  That is why his current and ongoing body of work is called "The world through my eyes".  He has become quite adept at using this software, allowing him to achieve some fascinating effects.  This post is full of animations so please give them some time to load.

A Hobby of Surreal Photo Manipulations

xetobyte Norvz Austria is a self taught digital artist from the Philippines.  In his profile he recalls how, he started doing photo manipulation when he couldn't find a wallpaper that he liked, so he decide to make his own.  He must be very popular with the people that follow his art, as he has had to put a notice to say that, his art is just a hobby and that he doesn't take commissions.  Enjoy these fascinating Surreal Images...

Colored X-ray Photographs of Nature

Arie van 't Riet is a physicist from the Netherlands that specialises in radiation physics, specifically in very low energy X-rays.  A few years ago, he started experimenting with Black & White X-ray photography and then partially colored them, to make these beautiful minimalist looking paintings.  As you can see below in the Tulips, we have added the original Xray photograph in the picture.  There is also a wonderful gif animation of flowers opening up below.

Monochromatic Triangulation Drawings Portraits

British artist Josh Bryan takes drawing portraits of famous Celebrities, form a completely different point of view.  Triangular shapes, their size and their approximation, give this imaginative artist, the chance to create light and dark relief work, to draw the various details of the face, making them look like their real life counterpart.  Enjoy the details that make up these lovely portraits.

Fine Line Art in Geometric shaped Drawings

This is the second time we feature traditional Artist Alex Konahin on DesignStack, this is the previous post "Stylish Anatomy".  In today's post we are going to have a look at his, Fine Line Geometric Art Drawings.  He produced these beautifully complex images with a dip pen, using India ink.  We suggest you enlarge the pictures to see just hoe wonderfully detailed they are and amazing in their form and complexity.

Astrology and Camouflage in Body Painting Art

Another masterful expression of art from Artist Trina Merry, we have featured her before on DesignStack on the following post, see the link: "Body Painting Artworks".  We have divided today's post in two parts, the fist one includes a video and a GIF animation of body painting, the signs of the Zodiac, whilst the second, features camouflaged models in the city (mostly). See if you can spot the silhouette of the models disappearing in the background.

Architectural Sustainability is getting Closer

The Techstyle Haus 825ft² (77m²) solar powered passive building, was drawn as a collaboration project.  A control system, makes it possible to monitor all energy produced and consumed in the home.  This makes it easier for the house owner make energy consumption more efficient, by moving to more adequate appliances and systems.  The structure regulating the House, expands outside the habitation as well as the inside.  There is a lot more information about this very interesting home, on the video below.

Freehand Massive Drawings, using a Marker Pen

Talented French Freehand Artist DeckTwo, has appeared on DesignStack before, link: "Cityscape Mural Drawings".  Today we are going to be looking at, mainly 2 of his works: - Around The World - freehanded drawing, on an Ikea wardrobe, representing his friends travels around the world, drawn using a marker pen.  The second is - Expanding Drawing - a 9m x 1.2m (29.5ft x 4ft) drawing which, he drew and recorded in Japan for a commercial.  We have added still pictures, animations and videos to give you a feel, of just how good he is.

Drawings of Texture Enveloping and Constructing the Body

Polish Artist Janusz Jurek gives his work a completely different feel to his silhouettes, by heavily texturing them in some cases, whilst in the other, the texture and filaments actually make up the body.  Even though we are calling these images drawings, they look more like photographs of real sculptures, morphing into something in between the two, a 2d sculpture, if you like.

Food Art good to Look at and good Eat

This is the second time we feature Commercial Artist Maria A. Aristidou, the last time was to share with you, her coffee paintings, link here "Pop Culture Painted with Coffee".  In today's post we are going to cover her cake decorations.  These cakes were made for local Patisserie, Vienna Boutique.  They were painted by Aristidou with edible paints, with each masterpiece taking between 6 and 10 hours to recreate.  Art that looks beautiful and tastes amazing, what more can you ask for?

Paintings of the Unglamorous Side of a Superhero

Unlike the Hollywood representations of flawless superheroes, Swedish Art director and Artist, Andreas Englund, gives us Hyper Realistic paintings depicting the life of a superhero, that has all of the good qualities and the failings of normal person.  Englund shows us, via his paintings, a progression in the life of this masked avenger, from infancy to old age, capturing a few vices and every day situations, on the way.

Optical Illusions and Impossible 3D Coloring Collection

After years of blogging about the fantastic work, of talented artists and innovators, we at DesignStack, were inspired to create our own project.  It is live right now on the crowd funding site Kickstarter, please follow the link to buy any of the items below.  We have 2 main creations: The Impossible 3D Coloring Collection, that consists of 50 Optical Illusion Coloring sheets for adults followed by the Impossible 3D T-shirts.  We have included the video from the Kickstarter campaign below.  We hope you like it and support us!

DesignStack Kickstarter Project:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designstack/the-impossible-3d-collection

Architectural Photography with a bit of a Difference

Neda Vent Fischer is a photographer with a difference,  originally from Yugoslavia, she now works out of Paris in France.  Her site does not describe the process she utilises to come up with these beautiful pictures.  A hint may be that she describes herself as a Fine Artists, Photographer, Illustrator.  They look to us like these pictures might be a mixed media project, that might include photographs and digital art.  But please don't let the, how, distract you from enjoying these beautiful images...

Micro Architecture with the Writer's Cottage

Architectural Practice Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS (JVA), were given a brief by their clients, two professionals in a suburban residential area in Oslo.   The space was to provide them with a space, that would allow them, the peace and quiet required to concentrate on their writing and their work.  This building also had to have enough window area to enjoy the lovely surroundings.  The ground floor contains seating, a chair and a glass desk, a bookcase that doubles as a staircase, that brings you to the mezzanine level which, is a resting / sleeping area.  This 15 m²(161f²) writer's cottage, was built in Oslo, Norway in 2014.  The Plans and the elevation at the end, can be enlarged by pressing them.

Large Drawings Super Detailed - The Landing

British Joe Fenton, is one of those multi talented Artist, that is just good at whatever he puts his mind to, Designer, Sculptor, Illustrator and Children’s books Author.  The beauty of his work lies in the level of detail he manages to introduce into his drawings, the precision and sharpness of his lines and colouring.  There is a certain difficulty as far as displaying work like Fenton's, it is so big and detailed that a full picture, will just not do it justice, so we have added a video from the artist and put together GIF Animations, to show detailed views of his work.  Enjoy...

Expressions on Moleskine Portrait Drawings

Illustrator and Artist Thomas Cian, creates these beautiful portrait drawings, of different people with different expressions.  Since infancy we are supposed to be predisposed to pay special attention to the expressions on the faces.  By the time we become adults this process is so quick and spontaneous in the brain, that it goes on all the time, without us noticing.  Cian's drawings allow us to freeze frame and really pay attention to the variety of expressions that live on people's faces.

Dark and Surreal Street Art Murals

Beautifully Surreal and sometimes Dark Street Art Murals, by Artist Alexis Diaz, from Puerto Rico.  This is art that the masses can enjoy, you don't have to pay an entrance fee or make special plans to go and visit it in a museum.  This form of Street Art can be admired every time you go to work, visit someone or just out on a walk, each time enjoying and discovering a different detail.

Painting Hyper Realistic Details

Beyond the mastery with which he paints these Hyper Realistic paintings, Brian Tull really makes his art different by focusing on part of the big picture.  These acrylic paintings on canvas, almost look cropped, they force the viewer to pay special attention to the details to try and figure out what the scene is about and what might be going on in the rest of the puzzle, if this is, but one piece.