Ghostly Animals in Manipulated Photographs

On a static image like this you are not sure if the animals are disappearing, or appearing...

Satirical Illustrations Shine a Light on Complex Problems

Very poignant political points made with the help of Satirical Illustrations, Press the image for more.

Surreal and Satirical Photo Manipulation

If you like a bit of Satire, mixed in with a few Surreal themes, then press the image.

Intense and Expressive Digital Art Portrait Paintings

Digital art can be just as Expressive and as Intense as the Traditional forms, to see more click the image.

A Home Where the Rooms Look Like a small Village

A very different building that looks like nothing else that is out there. Click the image to see more.

Fashion Shows Distilled into Drawing Portraits

Different aspect of fashion explored in colored drawings.

Paintings of the Homeless, in Faces of Santa Ana

Amazing paintings with a human touch, as the artist takes time to speak to the homeless.

Glass Jewellery Pendants Sculptures

Amazing glass pendants, some of which glow under UV light.

Characters Created with Body Painting

A 19 year old with a passion for makeup, shows us, how transform into different characters.

Mixed Media Art, Full of Thought and Feeling

Amazing mixed media drawings and Illustrations full of depth, by a clever artist in touch with her feelings.

Surreal and Manipulated, Digital Self Portraits

Self Portraits that when manipulated, give the viewer an eerie and surreal feeling.

Pastel Paintings or Photographs?

Did you think these were pastel paintings?  They are in fact photographs, read more in the post.

Enchanting Architectural Drawings of Viterbo Italy

Singaporean Artist, Illustrator and Teacher Malisa Suchanya, created these drawings, whilst spending a month in Viterbo, Italy.  She drew these scenes for a Journalistic Drawing Class and were executed using Ink, Pencil, Watercolor and Ballpoint Pen.  Suchanya is now based in San Francisco where she is studying for her Masters in Art Education.

Vintage Comics in Hyper-Realistic Painting

Yes, as you may have guessed by the title, these are not photographs, but very realistic paintings, by talented artist, Doug Bloodworth.  He was heavily influenced by American Western Classics, from a young age, which he is now able to express, together with pop culture, in his realistic paintings.  Throughout his carer, he has worked trough several genres of art, that span form painting caricatures to billboards.  He is now concentrating his art, around this fascinating and realistic art form, mixed with a bit of nostalgia. Time-lapse video of one of his pieces, below.

Entangled Human Figures in Drawings

US Artist Leah Yerpe, brings us, a very different composition style.  The way her models pose, is fluid and without structure or direction by the artist.  This lies in stark contrast with the way she approaches her drawings, which is systematic, precise and structured.  Following, is a partial quote from Yerpe: "The bodies in my work are multiplied in different poses, twisting, floating and falling on a ground purged of contextualizing marks."  Below a time-lapse video that shows how Yerpe approaches her drawings.

Dolls House Miniature Clay Food Art

This is the second time we feature Kim Clough aka (fairchildart) an Artist with an amazing eye for detail and Miniaturist by day, Medical Lab Scientist by night.  She tells us how she started in 2008, with a book from Sue Heaser, "Making Doll's House Miniatures with Polymer Clay", in which there are many easy to follow tutorials, covering many different types of miniatures.  Now she uses reference pictures, of real food from different angles, to create her tiny replicas.  She buys the cutlery and the dishes, with each clay sculpture taking between 1 and 3 hours to complete, depending on the complexity.

Star Wars, Environmentally Friendly Upcycling and Recycling

Gabriel Dishaw, is an Artist that uses his imagination, to focus our attention, on to the amount of items we send to the landfill every year.  It all started when he was at school in 9th grade, during an art class his teacher gave the students, 30 possible options for an art project, Dishaw chose "Junk Art" and he won 1st price, in the 3D category.  As mentioned above he is hoping that his art continues the conversation that more and more people are having around the word, to curb our seemingly insatiable appetite for waste.  Among his themes we have chosen his Star Wars one, for today's post.

The Floating Piers - Walkways on Lake Iseo, Italy

This is a project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, we have taken an extract from their site, for the description "For sixteen days – June 18 through July 3, 2016 (weather permitting) – Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, undulate with the movement of the waves as The Floating Piers rise just above the surface of the water."  Access is free for anyone to visit and opens at 06 am and closes at 10 pm.  The Walkway is 3Km (1.8 miles) long and 16m (52ft) wide.  At the end of the 16 days the "components will be removed and industrially recycled".  We are hoping that they either decide to keep the structure on a more permanent basis, or that the components are used for other projects and that more energy is not spent in making them into something else.  Even if they re-process them, at least they are not going to go into a landfill.

Architecture in Paris Home, 25m² Doorman’s Room and Cellar

When his friends bought a doorman’s room and cellar 25m² (269 ft²) next to their workplace, Architect Jérôme Vinçon customised it for them, so that they would get the best and most out of it.  Michel Craca is a head chef and Gaelle Potel is a maitre d’ in the same restaurant.  One of the most important parts of the flat was a fully functional kitchen for a professional chef.  The flat is divided on 4 levels: Toilet Shower / Room - Sitting Room - Kitchen - Bedroom.  There is only one window through which, natural light can come in from.  Splitting the levels, but leaving them open, means that 3 out of the 4 levels gets a certain amount of natural light.  The only one that does not is the bedroom in the lower level.  Have a look at the video and the images below to get a better picture of this custom and highly efficient use of space.

Faces of Writers in Charcoal Drawings

Born in China and now relocated to Singapore, Artist Liu Ling, has a degree in computing and is currently working as a freelance web designer.  Liu has a love for art, that she has worked hard at improving, taking art classes since 2014, where she has learnt a lot and has managed to refine her work.  Her ambition is to one day become a full time artist and to only concentrate on her passion, Art.  The last two images, were included because they are so very well done, they are clearly not, famous writers.

Kitchen Salt Temporary Drawings

This is the third time, we feature this multi style, talented Artist, Dino Tomic aka (AtomiccircuS).  Throughout the years, he has experimented with different mediums in both, Traditional and Digital Art.  We have links below, for Tomic's previous work here on DesignStack.  Today we are having a look at his salt drawings, some of which are Negative or Inverted Light.  The principle is built on the old negatives, that came out of the analogue photographic camera films, where everything that was light was represented as dark and everything dark was represented as light.  The light and dark, on the original drawings, have to be swapped, in order to look right.  You will be able to see how this works on the first video below and the images below it.

Watercolor Paintings that Blend in the Background

Norwegian Engineering student Andreas Lie, lives in a place that is surrounded by animals and nature.  The beautiful sceneries he is used to seeing on a daily basis, help inspire his artwork.  He is mostly known for his photographic double exposures, with the his two fixed cardinal points, nature and animals.  We have chosen to portray his watercolor project, where each image, blends with the background, making it difficult to distinguish at small scale.  To see it more clearly, press the images to enlarge them (not the first one).

Digital Art, Living Between the Fantasy and Surreal Worlds

Russian freelance illustrator, Katya Maleev, produces sweet Character Illustrations that have, both, a fantasy and surreal feel about them.  We have put together below, some of our favourite ones.  Our imaginations are a precious things that need nourishment, use these lovely Illustrations to feed them...

Beauty and Precision in Paper Cut Silhouettes

Indian Artist Parth Kothekar, unifies beauty and precision, in his paper cut silhouettes.  As well as that, he puts so much details, that must add a lot of difficulty when drawing and cutting these intricate patterns.  Kothekar started off with graffiti art, when cutting a stencil, he came up with the idea of transitioning to paper cut art.  It was initially a hobby, that has now become for him, a profession.  We have included a bit of a cross section of Kothekar's work below.

Ballpoint Biro Drawings on Recycled Paper

British Artist Mark Powell, has a background in Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting.  He has now settled on drawing images on all kinds of recycled paper like: postcards maps and envelopes.  This is a quote form Powell: "I have chosen to use a biro as it is the most common tool I can find which means I can show what can be done with such things. I hope it shows what anyone can do, art supplies are not always needed to create something. I also like that fact that no mistake can be made."

Architecture with Tiny Wind & Solar Powered, Off Grid Ecocapsule

Slovakian product, the Ecocapsule is a Tiny Home 8.2m² (88ft²) made of a high-capacity, insulated fiberglass shell, with an aluminum framework.  The first product run, consists of 50 units, priced at €79,000 exc. VAT ($89K).  They say, that all of the profits from the first sale, will go into mass producing the capsules and making them cheaper.  The fist 50 will be sent out in the third quarter of 2016.  The Ecocapsule can be connected to the mains or produce its own energy with solar and wind power.  It has a water collection and filter system that collects water in the base of the capsule, it can be topped up if needed.  The Ecocapsule, is designed to adhere to all safety requirements and will come with a comprehensive manual to help the owner get the most out of it.  More Statistics below.

Portrait Drawings of Charcoal Studies

New York based Casey Baugh has been painting since the age of 13.  He specialises on oil paint and charcoal, we are going to focus on the latter today.  Specifically, we are going to have a look at his charcoal studies, were he is able to experience, interpret and then reflect fantastically realistic expressions in his drawings.

Mixed Media Painting and Coloring

German Artist Svenja Jödicke aka (PixieCold), comes form an artistic family, where she was encourages to express her self through art, from a young age.  After a difficult time in her life, she discovered the internet as a conduit through which, she could bring her art to others.  Jödicke has now grown a solid fanbase, that appreciate the work she creates.  Have a look at the video below, to see and learn from her technique.

Animal Shaped Furniture, Chairs and Sofas

Maximo Riera was featured here on DesignStack, close to the beginning of our blog site, displaying more of his animal shaped furniture.  As you can see below, he has added to his collection, since the last time we visited him, with animals such as the Toad, Hippo, Octopus, Baby Elephant, Beetle and Buffalo.  You could create your own personal animal kingdom with them...

Flat Pack Furniture, the 2D Stool that Becomes 3D

Jongha Choi is an inventor, he is one of those people that if something doesn’t work properly, or if there isn’t a machine to provide a certain function, he doesn’t just sit back and make do without, Choi tries to solve the problem.  Amongst his ideas we have chosen his De-dimension stools, they appear flat and can be hung on walls, when needed, they can be taken down and transformed into 3D structure.  If you want to see more amazing furniture have a look on the left of the page, under Design and Architecture - Furniture Space Saving.