Ancient Greek Frieze by Eugenio Recuenco

 

Oil Paintings: 40 Stupendous Slabs Of Art by RedBubble

There are many skills to envy in life, from ninjas to Olympic yo-yoers. But the knack some people have of combining colored oil on a bit of canvas with only a brush, is simply staggering. Our oil painting gallery is bursting at the seams with textured goodness – here are just a few that caught our eye:

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Beautiful Paper Sculptures by Calvin Nicholls

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Canadian artist Calvin Nicholls creates the following amazingly beautiful sculptures using sheets of paper. “Calvin has been creating his paper sculptures since 1986 from his studio north of Toronto Ontario, Canada. Working with sheets of paper and a scalpel, he cuts the component pieces to fit the final drawing and assembles the low relief artwork under studio lighting. When the sculpture is complete the lighting is adjusted to bring out the subtle form and texture. A large format camera is used to capture the detail on 8×10 film prior to scanning for print applications or art prints.” 

Magnificent Egg Mosaics

Oksana Mas is a skillful Ukrainian artist who makes beautiful portraits without using your standard canvas and paint brushes. Instead, she uses hand-painted wooden eggs to assemble incredible mosaics that are sure to take your breath away. Just recently, Mas created several Easter egg mosaics for the Venice Biennale. She was inspired by the old Ukrainian folk custom krashenki, where wooden eggs were covered in traditional Ukrainian designs to celebrate Easter.

25 Amazing Examples of Reflection Photography

Reflection photography carries the message of so many nuances that brought inside the photography, which describe the ultimate feeling of capturing the power of vision.

The water is perhaps the most available reflection surface known in the nature we see every day. Its power to mirror and reflect reality is copied by the mirrors and shining metal and in the same time offers the possibility for a digital photographer to create amazing displays of art capturing the reflection effect.

Reflective photography is the way of seeing reality from another perspective – one able to create nuances and discover hidden characteristic of the reflected nature.

Let’s take a look of these 25 spectacular examples of reflection photography.

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