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Painting as Protest: Rainbow Stairs Spark Guerilla Reaction

It started with a single person painting one public staircase, but when city workers of Istanbul, Turkey covered this brightly-colored street art with dull gray paint, citizen activists picked up ...

Micro-Cities: Tiny Buildings Fuel Miniature Urban Renewal

Electrical boxes beware - Evol is back to up to his old tricks, turning urban fixtures and unused walls into tiny cityscapes using a deceptively simple toolbox comprised of cardboard, stencils ...

Different Strokes: Strange Paintbrushes Promote Creativity

When something evolves to have such a long history as the art of painting, it falls on out-of-the-box thinkers to question the most basic elements of creation: tools. The designers ...

Tag Before the Tide: Temporary 3D Sand Graffiti by DAIM

Artist Mirko Reisser has long developed a highly personalized (and profoundly cool) approach to making two-dimensional tags appear three-dimensional on surfaces, but in this unusual project, he ...

Vintage Vandals: 6 Artists Monsterize Thrift-Store Paintings

You seem to see them at every garage sale: a chipped and battered, faux-ornate, gold-colored frame containing a bland and boring landscape that only holds meaning for the original painter and ...

Wallpaper Paint Rollers: Cool & Classic Patterns, DIY Style

Applying wallpaper is nothing if not frustrating - you have to line everything up just right, and if you ever want to take it down, it is nowhere near as easy as painting over an existing color ...

Gray Ghost: Banksy’s Arch-Nemesis or Anti-Street Artist?

The Gray Ghost haunts New Orleans with a vengeance, adding his own Dada-esque anti-art to walls everywhere, graying out graffiti with his own incidentally artistic approach. Paradox and ...

Tiger Stripes to Cow Spots: 13 Playful Home Paint Jobs

What would your homeowners association say if you were to step way, way outside the bounds of normal home exteriors and do something way creative with your home's appearance? These people did ...

Painting Reality: Surprised Motorists Make Sudden Street Art

Ingredients: 500 liters of brightly-colored, eco-friendly, wash-away water-based paint, one elevated location with video camera and a whole mess of (2000) cars just waiting at an intersection to ...

Paint + Sound = Sculpture? [Wild Photos & Videos Included]

There is powerful, undeniable beauty in music, and vivid colors evoke some type of reaction in almost everyone - but the two have never been combined in quite this way before. This unique project ...

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