Awesome Art

This artfully animated short film follows the story of a woman who plans to hunt down a sacred mountain beast, but is interrupted by her younger sister who wants to protect the spirit. But even if she can persuade her sister, others are on the hunt. Tears of the Mountain is another wonderful team effort from GOBELINS Paris student animators.

Axolotls have become wildly popular in recent years for their irresistibly cute looks. But in the hands of diorama maker JackJack, this adorable salamander turns into a beast. Watch as the sculptor transforms polymer clay and resin into a spike-toothed monstrosity swimming in a pool of eggs that look like eyeballs staring out at us.

L.A.’s Skirball Cultural Center is showing one of the decade’s most important museum exhibitions on comic books. The Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity retrospective spotlights the legendary comic book artist who created such iconic characters as Captain America, The Fantastic Four, The Avengers, The X-Men, The Black Panther, and The Incredible Hulk.

Inspired by pixel art and brick-building toys, Prixel lets you create custom geometric prints in seconds. It features a 16×24 grid for its color-coded silicone pieces. Assemble your design, apply ink, and press against paper on its backing plate. The kit includes an idea book with designs for typography, images, and patterns. Additional grid plates are available.

Artist Noah Deledda makes amazing works of modern art by indenting patterns into soda cans. In this video, he gives away some of his secrets, showing how to take an ordinary Coke can and dent a stack of cubes out of its aluminum walls. It’s a tricky and meticulous process, so we can only imagine how much work it takes to make one of his original sculptures.

Talk about a rough ride. Artist and writer John D. Thomas has taken the iconic Little Trees air fresheners and twisted them into something you definitely don’t want hanging from your rearview mirror. Instead of pine or new car smell, his darkly funny creations capture unpleasant, hyper-specific moods like “Malaise,” “Black Mold,” “Loaded Diaper,” and “Curdled Milk.”

For the 2025 Toolroom Takeover, a bunch of machinists made metal gifts for each other. Artist Uri Tuchman. His idea? Hide an oil canister inside a mini work of metal art that looks like a fried egg. The egg’s brass yolk has a little door that swivels open to access its contents. He also made a toast case, an asparagus brush, and a knife with a pickle for a handle.

Amazon and others have dabbled in using drones to deliver packages. Sunday Nobody figured missiles might be more efficient. So he made a mock delivery missile. But this is no styrofoam prop, he machined his shipping missile sculpture from metal, then ramped up production, likely raising the suspicions of both Jeff Bezos and the federal government.

Sometimes it’s difficult to tell what a painting is going to look like when it’s started. We had no idea what this hydro-dipped image was going to look like until the artist submerged a handbag into it, transforming its canvas into a practical and portable work of art from seemingly random blobs of paint.

Traditional origami must be folded from a single, uncut square sheet of paper, without the use of glue, cuts, or additional pieces. Artist Kimiro shows how they created this incredible paper model of Pegasus. They started by mixing pigments, painting them onto Hanji paper, then creasing and folding the sheet hundreds of times to create the winged horse.

Artist Curwendil created this amazing sculpture of a brass octopus climbing a marble block. In this video, he shows us how he made the brass octopus by sculpting a clay model, covering it with silicone to create a mold, filling that mold with wax to craft a flexible version, and then using a lost-wax casting technique to form the metal sea creature.

It’s possible to use woodturning techniques with all kinds of unusual materials, as long as they’re glued into a block. Woodturning Crazy shows how wooden skewers can become an eye-catching and unique vase. The process involved bathing hundreds of skewers in resin, then cutting them into an octagonal block before carving them on a spinning lathe.

When she’s not entertaining us with he comedic and musical talents, Kate Micucci likes to doodle. Here, we see how her improvisational skills extend beyond her comedy work and into her art as she creates a series of playful people, robots, and critters on the exterior of NYC eatery Jazba using a permanent marker. She even made some special shoes for the occasion.

Create paintings wherever life takes you with this portable artist’s kit. It’s handmade from walnut wood and has cutouts for brushes and cups for up to 27 paints. Its hinged rear section has a place to clip your paper, while its lower section has a mixing palette and a cup for cleaning brushes. It’s compatible with tripods, and they make smaller kits for mini paintings.

Jacob Adler’s award-winning short film, Total Pixel Space, uses generative AI to explore the nature of images and the vast combinations of pixels and colors that produce visuals. While the possibilities may seem infinite, the math says there is a limit to the number of unique arrangements, at least when it comes to digital images of a given resolution. (Thanks, Rob!)

bart_afol’s bear statue celebrates the majestic brown bear with a wonderful forest-inspired build. Featuring raw, wood-like shapes and a mountain-themed interior, it’s a nature lover’s dream. The set also includes mini deer and doe builds, making it a great decorative piece that evokes memories of wildlife encounters. Vote for the project on LEGO Ideas.