High Speed Water Sculptures

German Photographer Heinz Maier creates these lovely shapes with water.  Amazing how you can get so many different patterns by dropping items or water in water.  Although a new comer to the profession, 2010, Maier now specialises in macro photography, (photographing really small things). He uses different coloured water and lighting to great effect.
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Vintage Looking Beer and Water Paintings

All the best artist start with a simpler medium and then with experience and time, progress to more difficult and complex ones. Karen Eland is a bit different in her choices, as she started with coffee and then moved on to painting with beer.  We have included below a video where Eland tells us a bit more about her history and her technique.  The paintings are painted only using water and beer, at various states of dehydration, the less water content, the thicker and darker it becomes.  Using water to dilute it, she can get many different shades of brown giving her paintings depth and that beautiful old / vintage sepia look.

The Art of Ebru with Painting on Water

It's a Turkish technique that uses paint on water and then transferred to paper to create paintings, see the video in the post for a demonstration.

Coffee and Water, Recreate Famous Paintings, with a Difference...

Coffee Paintings that give a bit of a twist, to some of the most famous paintings in the world.

Ice Snow and Water Pastel Drawings

Using blue and white pastel colors, to draw snow, ice and water.

Nautino Tiny Houseboat Architecture on the Water

A compact home, that you can move across the waterways.

Realistic Paintings of Water Reflections

Paintings of peaceful images of water reflections.

Watercolour Paintings of Water with Reflections and Transparency

Watercolour paintings that look like photographs.

Hyper-Realistic Water Pencil Drawings

Incredibly giving Artist Paul Shanghai from China, as well as sharing his work with his viewers, he gives short tutorials to explain how he achieves these Hyper-Realistic drawings, inspired by water.  He says that he has come back to drawing after an absence of 20 years, and we are glad for it.  Shanghai approaches each drawing as if it was a challenge to master different techniques that will allow him to attempt more and more difficult projects.

Have a look at our Paintings Drawings & Sculptures Hyper-realistic Folder.

Realistic Water Paintings

Beautifully realistic looking art, that make you feel like you could wet you hands, if you reached out and touched the paintings.

Map Paintings

An all together different use of maps, Artist Paul Morstad uses Cartographic Maps as a base for his paintings and collages. He draws inspirations from the animal life and nature from his native Vancouver in Canada.  Monstad uses a variety of techniques to compile his work including Collage, Water Colour, Gouache and Oil Paints.
"Smokin' Boot".

Realistic Paintings Depicting Water Reflections

Amazing reflections in the paintings, have a look at the video in the post.

Heritage and Water Playing a Part in Detailed Ink Drawings

Detailed illustrations that make you appreciate the this artist's fine art.

Body Painting on Location, Including Water

An artist that chooses to use human skin to create art, rather than a canvas.

Surreal Photographs with Underwater Shots

American Photographer Jenna Martin started on a very different path in life, after having completed a Masters in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, she decided to dedicate her talent and passion to her love for photography.  It isn't just about the quality of the pictures she takes, but the subject matter, this choice is what puts good photographers head and shoulders above the rest.  Amongst her surreal work we have included some of her under water photographs as well.  Enjoy...

Water Hippo Roller

Innovative design for carrying water over long distances, by Water Hippo.

Food Art Space Scenes, Achieved by Scanning Food and Spices

Navid Baraty is a Photographer with a background in Engineering, working out of Washington state in the USA.  In today's post we are focusing on his Food Art, where Baraty, scans different foods, without the scanner lid, to create these serene space like images.  Planets and moons are achieved by scanning the bottom of containers full of liquid, whereas nebulas are achieved using trays full of different liquids and stars using different salts and spices.  A lot of preparation, plus trial and error has gone into getting to these images.  The ingredients for each images are listed below each picture.

Mosaic Made from Coloured Water

 Impressive Mosaic using coloured cups of water from artist Belo.

Vertical Farms for a new Agricultural Revolution

Mr Jack Ng from Sky Greens based in Singapore, has built the first low carbon hydraulic driven vertical farm, to grow sustainable and cheap vegetables for the island nation's use.  Because the the arable land is so scarce in Singapore, radical rethinking has had to take place.  It is estimated that Singaporeans only grow 7% of their vegetables, the rest is imported from all around the world.  Because of its position in-respect of the equator. the nation has a stable warm and sunny climate all year around and during monsoon season the climate control enclosed structure, protects from the force and quantity of rain that comes down during that period.  These are the promises this type of farming makes: High yield, quality, flexibility, low energy and water use and little maintenance.  We will go into more detail below with the video and more information.

Building Flowers

Harvard University constructed these flowers made of crystals using chemical reactions.  This isn't the amazing thing, You need an electron microscope to view these flowers as they are measured in microns (1 millimetre = 1000 microns). The flowers were coloured in but the construction is absolutely real.