Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painting. Show all posts
Artist creates World Cup players' portraits by dribbling paint-covered football across giant canvas
World Cup fans and art aficionados alike are getting a kick out of this: A Shaghai-based artist has created portraits of star players, using a soccer ball as her only painting utensil.
Armed with eight trays of paint and a large-scale canvas, ‘Red’ Hong Yi produced colorful renderings of Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazil’s Neymar and Argentina’s Lionel Messi.
Ms Yi posted a time-lapse video to YouTube June 10, which shows the artist deftly gliding the ball across the impressive piece and sheds light on her process: She first uses yellow pigment to outline the three players, before filling in their facial features and brightly hued jerseys.
'I think my painting skills are OK, but my soccer skills are questionable as you can see from the video, haha!' she modestly wrote on her Facebook page June 10.
On her website, Ms Yi aptly describes herself as the artist who ‘loves to paint, but not with a paintbrush.’
Other projects have involved creating images of flamingos and various exotic birds using flower petals for feathers, and producing portraits using coffee stains as a medium.
But this isn't her first work rendered with a utensil likely purchased at a sporting good store.
In 2012, she painted basketball star Yao Ming using - you guessed it - a basketball.
Last year, Ms Yi told Designboom.com: 'I like working with texture and materials, so I’d say I’m very happy working on what I do now – art pieces using ordinary, everyday objects.'
She added that Picasso is the artist who's influenced her most.
'He has a famous quote…"all children are artists. the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." This has influenced me to see joy and fun in ordinary, everyday items that I come across, and to paint and create objects as I feel and imagine them, not just as I see them.'
Read more: dailymail.co.uk
Armed with eight trays of paint and a large-scale canvas, ‘Red’ Hong Yi produced colorful renderings of Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazil’s Neymar and Argentina’s Lionel Messi.
Ms Yi posted a time-lapse video to YouTube June 10, which shows the artist deftly gliding the ball across the impressive piece and sheds light on her process: She first uses yellow pigment to outline the three players, before filling in their facial features and brightly hued jerseys.
'I think my painting skills are OK, but my soccer skills are questionable as you can see from the video, haha!' she modestly wrote on her Facebook page June 10.
On her website, Ms Yi aptly describes herself as the artist who ‘loves to paint, but not with a paintbrush.’
Other projects have involved creating images of flamingos and various exotic birds using flower petals for feathers, and producing portraits using coffee stains as a medium.
But this isn't her first work rendered with a utensil likely purchased at a sporting good store.
In 2012, she painted basketball star Yao Ming using - you guessed it - a basketball.
Last year, Ms Yi told Designboom.com: 'I like working with texture and materials, so I’d say I’m very happy working on what I do now – art pieces using ordinary, everyday objects.'
She added that Picasso is the artist who's influenced her most.
'He has a famous quote…"all children are artists. the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." This has influenced me to see joy and fun in ordinary, everyday items that I come across, and to paint and create objects as I feel and imagine them, not just as I see them.'
Read more: dailymail.co.uk
Portraits by Françoise Nielly
Françoise Nielly is a French knife-painter who is famous for painting vibrant and colourful closeup portraits of people such as Barack Obama. She was born in Marseille, brought up near Cannes and Saint-Tropez and is now living in Paris.
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Paintings by Gino Rubert
Born in 1969 in Mexico, Gino Rubert studied fine arts at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Gino currently lives in Barcelona where he is represented by galeria Senda and he is also represented by other galleries such as Claire Oliver gallery In New York, Mizuama gallery in Tokyo, or Artrepco gallery in Zurich.
Gino has taught painting and contemporary art at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, at Montevideo’s Centro Cultural de España, and now does so at the Art and design schools Massana and Eina.
Gino has taught painting and contemporary art at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, at Montevideo’s Centro Cultural de España, and now does so at the Art and design schools Massana and Eina.
Artist Ed Wheeler injects festive fun into classic paintings
In this humorous series of self-portraits, american artist Ed Wheeler, steps into classic masterworks of artdressed as the iconic santa claus. paying homage to the original paintings, ‘santa classics’ offers art lovers a twist and an additional reason to smile during the silly season. after researching the works of the masters, wheeler felt certain compositions beckoned for a ‘santa intervention’. embarking on a multi-step process to fully integrate the jolly red figure into the lighting, brushstrokes and tonal values of the painting, the famous images are reinterpreted. the work will be exhibited at bahdeebahdu in philadelphia from december 6 – 21, 2013. the philadelphia museum of art is the first museum in the world to publish a series of santa classics holiday cards, available in their online store.
Gerard Toni: Putting the TEA in art
These masterpieces are created using different blends of tea and coffee, painting life-like portraits set in cafe environments.
Gerard Toni, 38, began working with coffee and teas six years ago after taking inspiration from fabric dying using the hot drinks in Asian cultures.
Mr Toni's work is all inspired from the coffee house, as he believes both the scene and the colours coffee and tea create on a canvas work well together.
Each piece takes several painstaking months to complete, as Gerard has to order in flavoured teas from around the world.
Gerard Toni, 38, began working with coffee and teas six years ago after taking inspiration from fabric dying using the hot drinks in Asian cultures.
Mr Toni's work is all inspired from the coffee house, as he believes both the scene and the colours coffee and tea create on a canvas work well together.
Each piece takes several painstaking months to complete, as Gerard has to order in flavoured teas from around the world.
DALeast:Breathtaking work of art on walls and buildings
These huge paintings are the work of a secretive graffiti artist who travels the world tagging walls, often painting his quirky pieces in a hurry to avoid arrest.
Chinese-born DALeast lives in South Africa but spends six months of the year travelling and has tagged walls on nearly every continent.
His unusual paintings, which are sometimes hundreds of feet across, can look 3D and as if they are created out of thousands of tiny metal shards, but in fact they have been spray-painted onto a flat surface.
DALeast's works can be seen in Cape Town, Miami, New York and London's Brick Lane, as well as his native China. The 29-year-old, who keeps his real name a secret, has been making art since he was three.
He said: 'I worked on everything when I was in China - painting, sculpture, installations, synchronising performance, and digital art, but I only started painting in public spaces in 2004.'
DALeast, who now lives with his wife, also an artist, in Cape Town, said he creates his pieces 'Spiritually, in the mind' before embarking on his painting trips. Much of his work portrays wild animals hunting prey, often showing them in motion.
The nature of the artist's work has landed him in trouble before, most notably just before the 2008 Beijing Olympics when police raided a house he was staying in and arrested him and his graffiti crew.
Chinese-born DALeast lives in South Africa but spends six months of the year travelling and has tagged walls on nearly every continent.
His unusual paintings, which are sometimes hundreds of feet across, can look 3D and as if they are created out of thousands of tiny metal shards, but in fact they have been spray-painted onto a flat surface.
DALeast's works can be seen in Cape Town, Miami, New York and London's Brick Lane, as well as his native China. The 29-year-old, who keeps his real name a secret, has been making art since he was three.
He said: 'I worked on everything when I was in China - painting, sculpture, installations, synchronising performance, and digital art, but I only started painting in public spaces in 2004.'
DALeast, who now lives with his wife, also an artist, in Cape Town, said he creates his pieces 'Spiritually, in the mind' before embarking on his painting trips. Much of his work portrays wild animals hunting prey, often showing them in motion.
The nature of the artist's work has landed him in trouble before, most notably just before the 2008 Beijing Olympics when police raided a house he was staying in and arrested him and his graffiti crew.
SOURCE dailymail
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