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Speed Painter 2

Speed Painter 2

We’ve seen a speedy painter work with small canvases and another who uses glue. D. Westry works with a normal-sized canvas and ordinary paint, but he has another trick up his sleeve.

Slow-Mo Paint Explosions

Slow-Mo Paint Explosions

The Slow-Mo Guys combine some gloppy old paint with fireworks and capture the wanton destruction with their 1600fps Phantom Flex camera for nothing more than sheer entertainment value.

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Old Consoles, New Paint

Old Consoles, New Paint

deviantART member Zoki64 breathes life into old consoles and controllers by customizing them using car paint and giving them a glossy finish. Check out his YouTube channel for videos of his creations.

A Can is Born

A Can is Born

Zone out for a sec and appreciate the fine work My Dog Sighs puts into FreeArtFriday: a weekly ritual of creating art pieces with found materials and leaving them on the street for passersby.

Yolk

Yolk

Similarly to his unpeeled tangerine painting, artist Duane Keiser makes omelettes art from his broken egg in this progressive, time-lapse painting, shot one day at a time, then animated.

IPaint

IPaint

No, it’s not a new Mac app. This short film shows artist Thijme Termaat creating works for his IPaint Project. The stop-motion and his skill makes real life seamlessly flow into his paintings and back.

Illustrations by Sophie Blackall

Illustrations by Sophie Blackall

Sophie Blackall paints images of loves lost and found. Her art can be found in New York’s subway trains, in her book Missed Connections inspired by Craigslist, or in poster form on Etsy.

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Painting Light and Shadow

Painting Light and Shadow

Artist Rashad Alakbarov creates paintings – but not in the traditional way. Instead, he creates sculptural works, which cast painterly images onto the wall when hit with a light.

Still Life

Still Life

We can’t think of anything more boring in the art world than a still life painting of fruit. But digital artist Scott Garner livens things up a bit with his interactive version and its motion sensing frame.

Speed Painter

Speed Painter

What can you do in 2 minutes and 20 seconds? In that time Fabian Gaete Maureira can make one painting and finish half of another. They’re small and simple, sure, but you try pulling that off.

WHAT’s Shop Custom Converse

WHAT’s Shop Custom Converse
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Offering intricately handpainted sneakers and high-tops, Bangkok, Thailand’s WHAT’s Shop customizes shoes with everyone from Daft Punk to Chucky, and Darth Vader to The Dark Knight.

Guido Daniele: Hand Art

Guido Daniele: Hand Art

Guido Daniele specializes in hand and body painting. Here are some of his trompe-l’Å“il animal hand art. They’re so good even when you’ve broken the illusion you’ll still appreciate the painting.

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Euphorie

Euphorie

Husband and wife, and amazing artists SupaKitch and Koralie are back with new mixed media wall art, their steady hands and bright palette working magic once again. Video by Raphaël Hache.

Food Finish Edible Spray Paint

Food Finish Edible Spray Paint
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Food Finish are ethanol-based edible spray paints. They are odorless and tasteless, so feel free to tag your food, cutlery and kitchen ware with it. Available in gold, silver, red and blue.

Painting Without Brushes

Painting Without Brushes

Artist Amy Shackleton is a painter, but she doesn’t own a single brush. Her paintings are created entirely with squeeze-bottles of paint and the creative use of gravity to direct the flow.

Snowmaps on Paper

Snowmaps on Paper

Need to hit the refresh button in your brain today? Watch this four minute synth pop lovely music video, created with ink, water color, and a really, really long piece of paper. It’ll help. (Thanks Neil!)

Painted Glass Animation

Painted Glass Animation

Carine Khalifé says she listened to Blown Minded off Young Galaxy’s album SHAPESHIFTING  over 1,000 times to get the atmosphere just right for this glass-painted, stop-motion animation.

Glow Stick Blender Art

Glow Stick Blender Art

Bon Yurt’s viral yogurt ad features a group of artists possessing blenders, paint, and 700+ glasses; they build an insane equalizer type of contraption with tons of neon glow stick goo.

Skateboard Pool Painting

Skateboard Pool Painting

London-based street artist D*Face attached a “spray paint skateboard interface” to the underside of a bunch of skateboards, found an empty swimming pool and let the skaters do their thing.

Handimals

Handimals

Milan-based artist Guido Daniele creates extraordinarily detailed trompe l’oeil advertising art by painting hands to resemble animals, then photographing the results. (Thanks Kelley!)

The Flow: iPad Paint Brush

The Flow: iPad Paint Brush
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Turn your iPad, Android tablet or smartphone into a virtual canvas with these special brushes that work with capacitive touchscreens. This Kickstarter project needs your pledge if you want one.

Peel

Peel

Duane Keiser cleverly combines painting and video to make an analog animation of sorts. He makes a painting of a tangerine and then proceeds to modify the painted fruit until it’s, well, peeled.

PsykoPaint

PsykoPaint

This nifty site lets you take your photographs and turn them into painterly masterpieces with a few simple strokes of your mouse. Once you’re done, you can share your creations with the world.

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