Stroke of Genius: 10 Abilities Borne of Brain Damage
Imagine having a stroke, a severe brain injury or a tumor and suddenly waking up one day to find you’ve developed artistic talents to rival Picasso. It sounds impossible, but the brain is a ...
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Camera Hands: Beautifully Realistic Portraits & Sketches
Abstract art developed around the turn of the last century as cameras began to take painting and illustration's place as the primary means of portraiture. But just because technology and the art ...
Art of Messiness: Intentionally Sloppy Drawings & Collages
(work via ARTST.com) It takes a special kind of person to actively pursue a messy career, be they a port-o-potty cleaner or a technician on an oil rig. Messy artists, you know, ones who cherish a ...
Surprise! 20 Subversive Works of Urban Guerrilla Street Art
It’s all too easy to get stuck in a routine, walking through the city on autopilot without even noticing what’s around you. Urban guerrilla street artists seek to shake things up, force you ...
WebUrbanist Fanbase Artist Showcase (Part 2)
Welcome to part two of our fanbase artist showcase. We often get emails from artists wanting to have their works showcased on the site and therefore we have started this monthly feature to give ...
Matryoshka (Nesting) Dolls: Hidden Russian Treasures
Matryoshka, or Russian nesting dolls, were born in 1890 in a children's educational workshop near Moscow. The workshop was developed by Sava Mamontov, an industrialist and patron of the arts. ...
WebUrbanist: Ultimate Alternative Urban Art Guide
Broadly defined, 'alternative art' is by far the most popular subject on WebUrbanist - or at least the one about which we are the most prolific. What do we mean by 'alternative' in this case? ...
Real Life-Size Made Miniature: 7 Tilt-Shift Photographers
It doesn't take much to fool the human mind into thinking it's seeing something other than reality. To the casual observer, the subjects of these photographs look like incredibly detailed ...
Light Graffiti Artists: Exclusive Interview with MRI
Call it lightpainting, light drawing, or light graffiti - whatever the label, the work of NYC duo MRI is fun, energetic, and chock full of awesome. Using a Canon 5D, a wide angle lens, 10-30 ...
Cleverly Flipped: 21 Mirrored Images & Reflected Photos
Photographers know countless methods to add interest to to their images through tricks of light, angle, color and more. One of the oldest ones in the book is to double the image with a ...
