Claire's Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (58)

Illustrator and designer Jessica Hische, who has an array of big name clients including Barnes & Nobles, American Express, Victoria Secret, has created Veiny Type, typography that is reminiscent of a heart with its purple, blue and reds colors and, of course, its veins. It was created for her client Chatelaine and accompanied an article about women’s…

Bristol-based Illustrator Andy Council creates detailed urban dinosaurs that have literally become a part of our modern landscape. Consisting of buildings, highways and anything else you would find in a city, these dinosaurs are far from prehistoric. Council describes his work by saying, "I use my drawing skills and love of detail to create bizarrely intricate collections of…

Véronique La Perriére M.'s charcoal drawings are surreal and almost a bit creepy, yet one can't help but to continue to look at them and wonder what's going on. La Perriére describes her art by saying, "My artistic practice is choreographed around questions that relate to memory, perception and identity. Through the medium of drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and video,…

Steve Wheen started the Pothole Gardener project as part of a university course. Over time, the project turned into a blog that follows his gardening efforts around East London. Wheen describes his endeavors as "part art project, part labour of love, part experiment, part mission to highlight how s*** our roads are – the pictures and gardens are supposed to put smiles on peoples faces and…

Colored pencils are not only great for creating art, they can be art themselves! We've already seen this once with the gorgeous gradient color pencil display and now we see it again with sculptor Motohiro Tomii's Table of Pencils, an installation at the Museum of Contemporary…

After given the amazing opportunity to paint segments of the Berlin Wall in Los Angeles, artistic duo Herakut exhibited their unique style of painting in a pop-up show in Germany. Herakut…

Artist Anne ten Donkelaar heals damaged butterflies by giving them new wings made of a variety of materials including gold, old maps, roots, threads and embroidery. Although the butterflies are no longer alive, they are given a new lease on life with their interesting new wings which are both beautiful and intricately designed. Donkelaar, who is inspired by nature and found objects,…

Walter Mason of Germany considers himself a land artist but what exactly does that mean? A land artist is someone who uses nature as an art form, displaying materials like flowers, soil, snow, rocks in their natural habitat. Walter Mason's vision is particularly stunning. In fact, the photograph shown above has become a viral hit on Tumblr!

Similar to the work of legendary land…

Canadian environmental artist Nicole Dextras creates large ice sculptures to form letters and words as part of her Ice Topography installation series. She made the icy block letters, which range from 18 inches to 8 feet tall, by pouring water into a very large mould and then freezing it. She then assembled the letters to create words and strategically placed them against beautiful…

Liu Bolin's name might ring a bell for you if you're an avid My Modern Met reader. After all, he has been featured on this site multiple times for his work, as he seamlessly blends himself amongst many different backgrounds, including graffiti murals,…

London-based artist Zadok Ben David planted more than 12,000 painted stainless steel cut plants in sand to create this installation titled Blackfield. The steel cut plants, inspired by Victorian botanical illustrations in textbooks, were placed in a bed of sand to make them look as though they were growing from the ground.

At first glance,…

China-based artist Dou combines human-like forms and earthly creatures to create fantastical works of art. Her characters appear magical with their large doe eyes and elegant yet unwieldy hair. The illustrations consist of thin and intricate lines with splashes of color, if color is used at all. Check out her website (which might take some navigation because it is in Chinese) to…

Maria Danalakis, an artist from Brooklyn, New York, has created some fun retro pin-up posters of superheros (and super villains)! The posters, which are available for sale on Danalakis' Etsy page feature such sexy characters such as Wonder Woman, Cat Woman and Poison Ivy. The posters are quirky and cute and…

AJ Fosik's wooden beast sculptures will be exhibited in Galerie LJ in Paris until January 17th, 2012. These sculptures pop out, not only because of the bright colors and eye-catching style, but also literally out from the wall! AJ Fosik, who was born and raise in Detroit, Michigan and is currently based in Portland, Oregon, uses…

England-based Alexander Korzer-Robinson is not a traditional artist, rather he enjoys creating narrative scenes by using pre-existing media, such as encyclopedias. Like Brian Dettmer, this artist creates his book sculptures by carefully cutting into pages,…

The words "black" and "garden" may together conjure up an image of a rotting garden, but Lauren Fensterstock's installation - consisting of black plants, soil and mirrors - looks far from rotting. In fact, the garden actually looks very elegant and beautiful - something that black and white interior design enthusiasts would absolutely love. By bringing two words that are never associated with one…

Artist David T. Waller used 2,500 old toy cars to create Toy Atlas Rainbow, a beautiful installation that won the People’s Award at the Arts Depot Open in 2010. The cars in the installation are arranged in a circular pattern according to their color, making a beautiful rainbow out of Hot Wheels cars. It is clear that a lot of time and effort went into constructing the installation, as…

These rainbows are not what they seem. Lee Baker used ten thousand meters of acrylic yarn to create Refractive Monolith, a piece commissioned by The Future Tense. Refractive Monolith is a three-dimensional direct reaction to Baker's paintings, which uses vivid colors to represent cities, dark looming…

Little Shining Man is a kite made out of 1,700 3D printed connectors, carbon fiber rods and cubenfiber aerospace fabric. It was conceived by Heather and Ivan Morison, designed by Sash Reading, engineered and fabricated by Queen & Crawford. The kite, which resembles a large cube with glass-like lizard scales is absolutely stunning - especially when the sunlight reflects against it. Check out the…