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- Skilled Artist DRAWS Victorian Photographs with a Pencil
- Don’t Sneeze! Beautiful Dry Tea Illustrations by Andrew Gorkovenko
- Ukrainian Car Enthusiast Turns His Mitsubishi Eclipse into a Lamborghini Reventon
| Skilled Artist DRAWS Victorian Photographs with a Pencil Posted: 07 Sep 2012 04:24 AM PDT
You could swear these old photos were taken decades ago, and have been stored away some place collecting dust, but in fact these tiny artworks are painstakingly drawn by Paul Chiappe, with a simple pencil. Mind blown yet? 28-year-old artist Paul Chiappe, from Edinburgh, Scotland, has been drawing with pencils ever since primary school, and throughout the years his skills have improved to such a degree that he’s now able to create detailed photographic artworks. I remember even in primary school meticulously copying images for art class,” Chiappe remembers. “I would end up drawing dolphins and things from wildlife books. Basically, anything I would draw I’d make sure it was as realistic as possible.” Now he’s become an expert at creating Victorian-style photographic artworks in such stunning detail that you actually need a magnifying glass to tell them apart from real photographs. “Using old photos allows me to play with the idea of memory more than a very current image would and works as a device to force people to cast their minds back,” Paul Chiappe says about his artistic choice. “I find it particularly interesting looking at people in old photographs and appreciating the differences and similarities, across different periods, cultures and personalities.” Most of his miniature masterpieces are created with just a pencil, but on some of them he also uses airbrushed paint. Talking about the size of his drawn photographs, Chiappe says: “The scale stems from an interest in miniatures, where there is an intimacy forged between the viewer and drawing. I also like working on a small scale for technical reasons – it makes sense for me to produce small work because it wouldn’t be practical to produce large works with the same level of detail.” What most people don’t realize when looking at his wonderful works on a computer screen is that some of the detailed faces he creates by pencil are as small as 2mm. If you’re into realistic drawings, you can also check out Rajacenna’s realistic portraits and the graphite photography-like art of Paul Cadden.
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| Don’t Sneeze! Beautiful Dry Tea Illustrations by Andrew Gorkovenko Posted: 07 Sep 2012 02:53 AM PDT
Moscow-based graphic designer Andrew Gorkovenko has recently created a series of awe-inspiring dry tea illustration, as part of a series of packaging designs for Triptea. I’d definitely buy some, if only for the box artworks. Talk about an unusual and refreshing art medium. There are a few thing I imagined could be done with dry tea, but drawing definitely wasn’t one of them. Obviously, Russian graphic designer Andrew Gorkovenko has a richer imagination, since he came up with the idea of using the nicely-scented dried and ground tea leaves to create these amazing concept illustrations for Triptea ‘s packaging. Using only basic tools to manipulate the dry tea on white paper canvases, Gorkovenko created a series of intricate designs which illustrate the origin of the different tea varieties – the Great Wall of China and a detailed pagoda for green tea, a picturesque Ceylon landscape for black tea, etc. As Christopher from Colossal notes, Andrew really went above and beyond for this campaign. Triptea must be pleased. If you like this kind of unusual technique of drawing with edible mediums, you have to check out Bashir Sultani’s salt art, Carl Warner’s foodscapes and Kelly McKollam’s spice paintings.
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| Ukrainian Car Enthusiast Turns His Mitsubishi Eclipse into a Lamborghini Reventon Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:42 AM PDT
Alexander Stupkin, a 30-year-old car enthusiast from Odessa, Ukraine, has spent the last two years turning his old Mitsubishi Eclipse into a gorgeous Lamborghini Reventon replica. It’s barely been two weeks since we posted an article about Wang Jian, the 28-year-old Chinese farmer who built his own Lamborghini Reventon from scrap, and now we have another Lambo fan who decided to built his own dream car. His name is Alexander Stupkin, a young Ukrainian jeweler from Odessa. Apparently he has always been a fan of beautiful sports cars, and since he was already working in a field that requires patience and accuracy, he decided to try his luck with tunning. Although he had no experience with tunning cars, with the help of family and friends, Alexander managed to transform an old 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse he bought in 2008 into a stunning replica of his Italian dream car, the Lamborghini Reventon. It’s true the build process took over two years, but the end-result is really impressive, if you ask me. Although not entirely accurate, Alexander Stupkin’s home-made Lamborghini attracted the admiration of web surfers from both the Ukraine and Russia, and has also won some prizes in national tunning competitions. For those of you curious about details from the two-year build, Alexander has posted a series of notes and photos on his Drive2 page. It’s in Russian, but Google Translate can help.
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