Category Archives: Art

Artist “Draws” Amazing Portraits by Weaving Thread Around Nails | My Modern Met

By Margherita Cole on March 4, 2022 This is art you’ll want to get in real close to appreciate the hard work. Instead of drawing with pencils, Konstantin Hlanta “draws” with string. The self-taught artist creates vivid works of art … Continue reading

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Through Bronze Mushrooms and Gilded Cicadas, Xiaojing Yan Links Chinese Legend and Nature | Colossal

MARCH 2, 2022. GRACE EBERT “Tiger’s Embrace” (2021), painted wood The wide, reddish-brown fungi known as lingzhi, or reishi, has long been revered as the mushroom of immortality, said to grant eternal life to anyone who consumes one of its … Continue reading

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Polished Feet and Ears Emerge from Rugged Hunks of Marble in Dorothy Cross’s Sculptures | Colossal

MARCH 1, 2022. GRACE EBERT Detail of “Blue Dive” (2021), sodalite, 70 x 30 x 30 centimeters. Photo by Stephen White & Co., courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery. In Dorothy Cross’s “Blue Dive,” a pair of feet … Continue reading

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3D artwork by @shanef3d in Soho, New York

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Musicians Harmonize with Plants and Birds in Gaspart’s Soothing Digital Illustrations | Colossal

FEBRUARY 28, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Gaspart Twined with leafy vines, Gaspart’s series of digital illustrations titled Birds, Plants & Musicemits the calming, lyrical presence we need right now. The collection, which was inspired by research detailing the effects … Continue reading

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Embroidered Sculptures Recreate Lifelike Mushrooms, Lichen, and Fungi in Thread | Colossal

FEBRUARY 25, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Amanda Cobbett Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to … Continue reading

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Amazing art by @dy_yifanzhang | earthpix

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Mushroom, it’s glowing? By Billi51 in Strausberg, Germany | Street Art Utopia

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Street art (Inti)

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Mesmerizing Inked Spirals Created by a Hypnotic Drawing Machine | My Modern Met

By Margherita Cole on February 25, 2022 The patterns drawn are like visual music… there’s a hypnotic rhythm to each drawing. It’s easy to be baffled by the art of James Nolan Gandy at first glance. These mesh-like drawings, which … Continue reading

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