Playing with the Sky

When I drive home from the office in Yellow Springs, one of the greatest creative backdrops is the sun setting. The warm, vibrant colors are the perfect canvas, and when you add vintage elements, it makes for an interesting scenery. Valeria Prieto adds these elements including musical notes and birds on electric wires to create picturesque illustrations.





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Typewriter Typography

Here's a fresh medium for artist expression. Using a typewriter to create landscapes.


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Seeing the World Differently

Similar to my post on illusions of daily objects.

Sandrine Estrade Boulet turns normal street scenes into amazing artwork. Some people see the world differently then others. She has a marvelous imagination. Some of her illustrations and creations are obvious once they are visualized, but I would not see it just walking down the road.



Check out more of her illustrations in her gallery.


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Lighting of Importance

Check out these incredible shadow sculptures. When light filters through them, hidden messages are unveiled through bent wires, cotton clouds, cardboard boxes, and shrubbery.


The artist's play on words and images give rise to a surprising aesthetic effect, while the kinds of materials he chooses is reminiscent of poetry.

Illusions of Daily Objects

Using daily objects to create imagery, Vik Muniz shows the depths of memory and illusion. Amazing pictures created with puzzle pieces and shreds of magazines.








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