Chloe Dickey creates stunning sculptures using beaches

A young woman with a passion for art has begun using the beach as her blank canvas and is creating beautiful designs in the process.

But Chloe Dickey's sand sculptures aren't like the usual dolphin and turtle designs that are etched into beaches, she uses patterns and geometrical shapes to express herself.

The 24-year-old from Lake Cathie, NSW, works in the wet sand at low tide meaning her drawings don't stick around for long when the waves roll in.

Chloe only got into sand sketching by accident after she saw a story online and thought her art would translate well onto the sand.

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Bird Boxes by John Dilnot

The artist John Dilnot has created these wonderful bird boxes which seem to me to be a cross between art and crafts. He generally uses clipped illustrations of birds and then arranges them into beautiful dioramas within wooden boxes. As you can see from the images he often lines the interiors with antique maps and then sets the birds into small flocks so they look like they’re on perpetual journeys across the globe.

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The perfect Father's Day present for Wills! Portrait out of TOBLERONE!

The Royal family are rather used to sitting for portraits but the Duke of Cambridge might be a tad surprised by the latest recreation of his and his son's likeness.

A giant chocolate portrait of the royal pair has been unveiled to mark William's first Father's Day as a Dad.

The piece was created by food artist Michelle Wibowo from Michelle Sugar Art, using a staggering 16,074 individual triangles of Toblerone.

It took more than 1,500 bars of the iconic shaped chocolate bar using dark, milk and white chunks to create depth and dimension.

The art work measures an enormous 12ft x 8ft and weights a staggering 154kg.

The full creation took Michelle more than 100 hours of planning, preparation and construction.

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These Beautiful Ads Really Captured The Special Magic of Reading Books

The campaign is for Steimatzky Books, the largest and oldest bookstore chain in Israel.

The headline is such a nice understated and truthful statement. Thankfully, the copywriter didn’t try be too “twisty” with the line.

The visuals are very literal — something that I often have a problem with — but this is a literary campaign! So, they work. The art direction and photography are both excellent (I love the Stalin layout).

Ad agency: ACW Grey Tel Aviv. Credit buzzfeed.com

Classic Disney Posters Get Dramatic Makeover

Fresh off the heels of awards season, people are still buzzing about the deeply serious dramas that racked up nominations over the past two months.

Oh My Disney hopped on board the dark train with a series of re-imagined posters that lend a moodier tone to some of the more lighthearted Disney classics.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs features the princess' face reflected in the poison apple that nearly seals her fate, while Winnie the Pooh calls back to the poster for Joaquin Phoenix's dark mockumentary I'm Still Here.

And while Cinderella's movie poster gets a brightly-colored Mean Girls revamp, Oh My Disney is quick to note that the "inspiration for this one isn’t so serious, but it does have plenty of drama." Via mashable.com

'My Body My Rights' body art by Hikaru Cho

Amnesty International and Tokyo-based artist Hikaru Cho have collaborated to produce the ‘My Body My Rights’ campaign - a series of unique paintings. Hikaru Cho, aka Choo-San, is a second-year university student in Tokyo. Her work was widely featured in British and international media last year. Each design for the Amnesty campaign depicts a 'body right'. Via telegraph.co.uk

When Los Angeles was a rustic village by Ernest Marquez

In the mid 1870s, Los Angeles was still an upstart hamlet separated from the rest of the nation. The Southern Pacific Railroad was as yet unfinished, and the tiny township of Santa Monica had only just begun welcoming city dwellers to its beachside tent cities. Photographers flocked to the area, setting up studios catering to the tourist and pioneer trade, eager to record the changing landscape. These photographs are part of a vast collection amassed over 50 years by Ernest Marquez, a descendant of Mexican land grantees who owned what became Santa Monica, as well as parts of Pacific Palisades.

The photographs were recently acquired by the Huntington Library and Art Collection, based in Pasadena. Via telegraph.co.uk

Stunning travel posters depict holidays around the solar system by Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas' futuristic designs promote holidays in far-flung destinations such as Mercury, Venus or Pluto, along with the hi-tech transport required to embark on such interplanetary travel.

Adventurous holidaymakers are invited to 'explore the crimson canyons' on Mars and 'see the world in a whole new way'.

The out-of-this-world trips include skiing on Pluto, a blimp tour of Venus and solar-powered car racing on Mercury, which is billed as the 'hottest road race under the sun'.

Just like during travel's golden age in the 1920s and 1930s, the impressive methods of transport are as important as the destinations themselves.

Steve, 40, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, said: 'I worked for a newspaper for many years as a graphic designer but would do these travel posters on the side, at evenings and weekends.

'They were such a success that I was able to become a full time freelance graphic artist. 'I love the old vintage travel posters so I decided to combine the two things, and I came up with retro posters of planetary travel. 'It started with Mars and Venus, and just went from there. My imagination just took off. 'Vintage travel posters are classic but over the years they have disappeared. But now they're coming back thanks to pop culture.' Read More @ dailymail.co.uk