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Artist Notices People Are Using Protective Masks All Wrong, Decides To Create An Infocomic Explaining How To Use Them Properly With news articles about the coronavirus being printed left and right, you probably noticed the surge of overpriced facemasks appearing for sale online. And before you rush to buy a 10-pack of surgical masks listed online for 20 dollars by some shady “businessman”, we have an informative comic that might help change your mind....

Artist Pairs Everyday Objects With Matching Pantone Swatches Pantone Color Matching System holds color standardization in a vice-like grip. Inka Mathews used the Pantone system to match various random items with their colors. The match-ups are pleasing to the eye, partially because of the tiny objects involved. The other pleasing aspect comes from the well-done composition and the matching colors. “One morning, when I was looking around to see the plants in my front yard, my attention was captured by these intense bright blue little flowers called Veronica Georgia Blue....

Artist Spends 6 Months Planting 1.2 Acres To Recreate Van Gogh’s Painting ‘Olive Trees’ The world is Stan Herd’s canvas. Recently, he transformed a field into Van Gogh’s 1889 Painting “Olive Trees” by cutting it into a meadow of long grass and wild flowers near Minneapolis’ St-Paul International Airport. Herd used rototilling to cut the frame and dug furrows to accentuate the shadows and details of the image. He planted oats, squash, gourd and melon in an effort to use local plants in the “painting”....

Artist Uses Bicycle And GPS To Draw Pictures On City Maps You’d think that drawing art with bicycles would involved some paint-splattered wheels. But Stephen Lund uses a GPS app called Strava to paint his works on the map. Lund bike tens if not hundreds of kilometers to create his works. “The best ones pop off the map,” Lund says, explaining his process. “I liken it to seeing shapes in the clouds....

Artist Uses Her Fingers To Create Photorealistic Images That Raise Climate Change Awareness U.S. artist Zaria Forman’s beautiful images of water and glaciers may seem like photos at first, but they’re not – they’re photo-realistic drawings that she created using soft pastels and her fingers! Zaria Forman’s works, which focus on climate change and the importance of water, are enormous drawings, sometimes the size of an entire wall. This scale lets her achieve photo-realistic effects using only her fingers to smudge and draw with her soft pastels....

Artist, Who Says She Can’t Draw, Creates Hilarious Illustrations About Her Life Bibi is an illustrator who draws hilarious comics about her life. Although she says she can’t draw, we think the comics are great! And Bibi seems to have a positive outlook when it comes to not knowing how to draw: “why should that stop me?!” says her. Be the judge yourself and check out Bibi’s comics in the gallery below!...

Audi Hires Photographer To Shoot Their $50,000 Car, He Uses $32 Miniature Toy Car Instead Marketing a car costs big bucks. Unless you hire Felix Hernandez, who doesn’t need an actual car to make the magic happen. Instead, he does it with a $32 toy replica, and as you can see from his previous miniature projects, you can’t really tell the difference. Even though Felix is the master of the mini-world, this project was challenging even for him: “Where I normally work with 1/18 scale models, for the Q2 launch I was commissioned to do a series of photographies using a 1/43 scale model,” says the photographer....

Ballet Dancer Recreates The Paintings Of Edgar Degas Edgar Degas is famous for his paintings of practicing ballerinas. Misty Copeland, a 33-year-old ballerina is recreating his paintings in real life. In a photoshoot done with the cooperation of NYC Dance Project, the ballet dancer posed as the subjects of Dega’s world. Dega is famous for painting ballerinas working and practicing backstage, in contrast to the usually idealized depictions of them dancing on stage....

Bathroom Cleaning Hacks [INFOGRAPHIC] 40,000 germs per square inch on your toilet flusher! 60,000 bacteria per square inch crawling all over your shower faucet! Polluted water vapor lingering in the air! Getting grossed out yet? Well, you should be, because without a regular cleaning schedule, your bathroom can quickly become the filthiest room in the house, potentially leading to you catching staph, e. coli or some other equally stomach-turning disease. The problem is that getting your bathroom clean and keeping it clean can be one big, frustrating headache....

Botanical Tattoos Made By Imprinting Real Leaves On The Skin This is to the guys who are on a constant quest to find that one-of-a-kind tattoo. Ukrainian tattoo artist Rita “Rit Kit” Zolotukhina has found a way to make every tattoo unique with the helping hand of Mother Nature. She calls them “botanical fingerprint” tattoos. “I’m a nature lover. So most of my sketches are related to flora. But the more I drew, the more I wanted something fresh and native, to feel the plants without any steps in between,” said Rita to Illusion Magazine ....

Branded By Fire She was 21 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The first photo It is a representation, of how cancer affects the victims mind, moving through them like fire and smoke suffocating their mind. The second photo it is a representation of the body, how pieces are physically missing. How the women sees herself. The rational behind these images is a personal one. I stood on the sidelines as I watched it not only affect her body but her mind....

Bring a Smile on Your In-laws Face: Top Gift ideas for them In-laws are almost like parents. They take care, they love and they are full of concern. They solve all your problems and you can fall back on them whenever you want just like you used to do with your parents. They are the ones who have come to your life to love you unconditionally. You also love them back....

Can You Find Momo The Hide-And-Seek Dog? Andrew Knapp and his beautiful dog Momo the border collie, which we previously wrote about here , have a unique on-going game that they play with thousands of fans all over the world. The two best buddies have been find tons of great locations for Momo to hide in everywhere they go – urban areas, shops, yards, fields and neighbourhoods. Momo’s delightful antics are always captured on camera and shared with their fans on their blog....

Christmas pictures gone wrong OR Kids vs Santa from the Mall You know the mission all parents of young children embark on every single year before Christmas? Yep, grabbing their kids, dressing them up all cute and Christmasy, taking them to the nearest mall and queuing for probably longer than their kids can tolerate to pop them onto the weir stranger’s dressed like a Santa lap and hope for the best....

City Illustration Prints I have created a new series of poster illustrations in the same style as my previous star wats and game of thrones series. The new collection is based on diverse illustrations of the cities of London, Amsterdam, Manchester, New York, Sydney, and Paris. Below you can find all the prints. Each work is available for purchase at sekonik.bigcartel.com Dean Robert Smith

Controlling Your Garage Door Opener with a Smartphone: Top 5 iOS and Android Apps As the time went by and our smartphones became even smarter and more functional, the list of things these devices were able to pull off grew impressively large. It was obvious that something as simple as remotely opening garage doors would find a place on this list sooner or later. And truly, these days, you only need to buy a Bluetooth/internet receiver, connect it with the garage door opener, pair it with your smart device, download the appropriate app and your life will become more convenient....

Craxton’s Cats: A Collection Of Charming Cats Before the internet’s obsession with cats, John Craxton, a painter born in 1922, saw a furry feline mid-action and thought that it was a moment worth capturing and thus his whimsical hobby of painting cats in various poses began. Born in London but choosing to travel and live internationally, Craxton’s work wasn’t very popular in the British art scene until his passing in 2009....

De Young Museum’s Exhibition Of Paul McCartney’s Photos From 1963-64 Extended Till October The Beatles last performance took place more than 60 years ago. After their final concert at Candlestick Park, Beatlemania is back in the Bay via a series of over 250 personal photographs of Paul McCartney that make up this exclusive exhibition. Along with video clips and archived materials from between December 1963 through February 1964 , this is an opportunity for fans to take a behind-the-scenes look at the world’s most celebrated band’s journey to superstardom....

Designer Challenges Himself To Create Simple Logos For Words, Every Single Day Of The Year Daniel Carlmatz is a Stockholm based graphic designer and in 2017 he did a wordplay challenge, his goal was to create typographic logos inspired by commonly used words. Daniel’s work radiates simplicity and proves that design can be inspired by such little things as a letter or an ordinary shape. From a latter ‘j’ in a word ‘jazz’ becoming a saxophone to a latter ‘a’ turning into a small cage in a word ‘birdcage’, Carlmatz proves that you don’t need to look far to find ideas for your work....

Dior Copies Romanian Traditional Clothing And Sell It For 30,000 Euros, So Romanians Fight Back In A Genius Way Plagiarism is nothing new in the fashion world – even the big names do it. Last year Dior launched their pre-fall collection featuring traditional motifs. Soon people began to see that many of them looked very similar to those of traditional Bihor clothing. Sadly, Dior never credited the Bihor community for inspiring them....