Artist Renditions Of TMNT
Comic artist Stephen Pfeil recently posted his interpretations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as the master artists they were named for would have intended them to look. On top of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael, Pfeil also explored how more contemporary artists would have depicted the turtles, including Dali, Picsaso, Monet, and Pollock.
The pictures [...]
Codependency Suit
It’s often cute when couples dress in matching outfits. Artist Nonaine took this practice a step further with her Codependency Suit. It can be two separate outfits, or it can join together into one. At the link, you can see similar shirts and hooded capes that couples can use to bind themselves together.
Link via GearFuse [...]
Melting Table
British artist Rob Smith has some lovely wood carvings in his deviantART gallery. One of the most striking is this table that looks like it’s melting. It’s made of recycled oak and took him four weeks to make.
Link via DudeCraft | Gallery
Sea Turtle Cake
Louise Hill of Love to Cake is a London-based graphic designer and visual effects artist. That is her trade, but her passion is making fancy cakes. This sea turtle cake won her the gold medal at Britain’s 2009 Cake Show.
flickr photostream via reddit | Artist’s Website
Realistic Oil Paintings by Alyssa Monks
An artist has created a stunning set of aquatic portraits which look just like photographs.At first glance, you could be forgiven for believing that these images look like an intimate set of snapshots caught by the photographer at exactly the right time.However, these touching shower scenes were not captured by a camera – but amazingly [...]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles As Their Artists Intended
Artist Stephen Pfeil depicted the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the styles and poses of the artists for whom they were named. And then he added some more artists from history into the mix. He writes:
But seriously, while going through Art History class I had a hard time NOT thinking of the Ninja Turtles. They [...]
The Birth of The Golden Girls
Pop artist Sam Carter’s Birth of Zbornak is inspired by Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus as well as the TV show The Golden Girls. The recently passed Bea Arthur is featured at the center in her role as Dorothy Zbornak. The painting is quite detailed, and if you’re foolhardy enough to look at an [...]
Creating Melodramas in Silhouettes: Kara Walker
(This post was a week in the making, due to the overabundance of articles, reviews, and critiques on Walker and her art.)
The American artist Kara Walker had achieved “both notoriety and acclaim in the art world while still in her twenties.” Her art—much of which would be considered “not safe for work”—usually sells at prices [...]
Literary Map of San Francisco
San Francisco is a city that has hosted and inspired many great writers. So artist Ian Huebert created an enormous map of that city filled with the words of novelists and poets who either wrote their works in those locations, or located their stories there. In the links, you’ll find a larger image. And at [...]
The Pop-Up Wall Sculptures of Kristine Suhr
Danish artist Kristine Suhr creates images that move when tabs — like those on children’s pop-up books — are pulled. Since they’re brief Flash videos, there’s no way to demonstrate them in motion here at Neatorama, but at the link, you can view a whole gallery of them moving. Warning: sound effects.
Link via DudeCraft
