We have all heard about origami – the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. It’s super popular in Japan and it has spread around the whole world, and evolved into a modern art form. The folds in origami are basic and there are not many, but there are several forms of origami and several things you can make out of this small number of folds. One of them is origami architecture that involves using cut-out and folded paper, as thin paperboard. The three-dimensional are the hardest ones, and require skills of an architect.

These pictures are showing some of the great works of origami architecture where some of the papers are opened 360^o that involves the hardest folding. Just imagine how many prototypes had to be made before they managed to create the perfect origami building.

For some people painting with regular paints seems not to be enough, like for Chris Trueman from California who has became famous by his unusual painting but the price of his fame was pretty big. He had to kill 200,000 ants to create his weird painting of his younger brother.

We are not going to discuss the quality of the painting but I believe this is just wrong. Being so small doesn’t make ants less valuable than any other animal and according to that, killing an ant without any reason is pretty as same as killing a dog or cat.

Chris had to spend a lot of time to catch and kill all those ants. However, one day he realized that he has to speed up his work so he decided to find some faster solution than catching all ants by himself. Soon, after short online research, he found a guy who is selling ants as food for lizards but he still had to kill them before putting them on his painting.

I am not still sure should we call this ‘painting’ or it is better to name it ‘ant massacre’ but, whatever you call it, it is totally sick and inhuman.

Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich are artistic duo from Russia. They are creating amazing paper sculptures of people’s everyday situations.

Every of their paper-sculpture installations represents an unique story from everyday life of an average human being. The choice to make them colorful is something what I like the most, and this is what makes those figures look more entertaining.

You can also see that they have focused their work to ‘capture’ the perfect movement positions of figures which is the main cause they look so realistic. Their collection of sculptures is called ‘People Too’.

Via PeopleToo.

Kumi Yamashita is Japanese artist who is creating amazing artworks based on shadow rather than light. Yamashita could be eventually called ‘the master of shadow’ because most of his artworks are actually made of it or more precisely, they are made to be the shadow.

Most of his installations are made of some specially positioned object or more of them and the unavoidable part of his artworks is the light source which, when is confronted to those objects from a proper angle, creates shadow images on the wall.

This interesting artistic style is far from easy since the artist has to calculate exactly how light is going to act and to put the light source in a proper position. For the end, you make take a look at the video that shows how he do this amazing kind of art:

Via KumiYamashita.

Artists are known for their creative eccentrics but Mike Stilkey is someone quite different. Mike is an artist from Alta Dena California, who paints exquisite portraits of life on spines of stacked books.

Mike always had a fondness for painting on old books that he even got published under the name ‘100 Portraits’. However later on, he had an innovative idea- to draw on book spines. Gradually he started drawing on a mass of stacked books.

The result was spellbinding and Exquisite paintings came to life through his drawings. Overnight Mike Stilkey became a legend, when he presented his paintings at the second Artist’s Annual group show.

Mike Stilkey had brought a new revolution in the world of interior designing. Gone are the days of multitude of stacked books that looked dull and boring. With his work of art, these walls of book stacks came to life with striking paintings and portraits. He has also inspired other artists to look a little beyond their imagination.

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The famous Czech photographer Vlad Artazov has come up with an awesome random collection on arrangement of nails in different set ups which depict the irony of life in a very astonishing manner, in his recent interesting photo art called Nail’s life. It is incredibly done showing off the wide range of real life situations, feelings and emotions by the extensive use of simple nails.

Some pictures show the seamy side and some pictures show intimacy, but the art is truly inspiring. Though the ace photographer’s works are usually humorous and carry an ironic message in his pictures, this nail art can surely be his masterpiece.

Via Vlad Artazov.

Scott Wade is an artist with a difference! He paints exquisite pictures with extreme detail work but the difference lies in his choice of canvas and equipment. Believe it or not, using only dry dust, oil, a few paint brushes and his fingers, Scott Wade paints his portraits on the back of cars. He uses a special kind of dirt that he sprays on the back of the car using a simple hair dryer and oil, and Eureka! Within a short time using only his fingers and paint brushes, he creates a masterpiece.

His art includes portraits of celebrities like Monalisa, Albert Einstein or drawings that simply represent humor in daily lives. Scott Wade is well known for his creativity. People often stop to admire and take pictures of his paintings.The only drawback here is that, whenever it rains the art is washed away. As this doesn’t pull down Scott’s spirits. Scott wade sees this as an opportunity to create more art. Scott wade belongs to an era of artists who envision art beyond the ordinary.

Scott Wade is an artist with a difference! He paints exquisite pictures with extreme detail work but the difference lies in his choice of canvas and equipment. Believe it or not, using only dry dust, oil, a few paint brushes and his fingers, Scott Wade paints his portraits on the back of cars. He uses a special kind of dirt that he sprays on the back of the car using a simple hair dryer and oil, and Eureka! Within a short time using only his fingers and paint brushes, he creates a masterpiece.

His art includes portraits of celebrities like Monalisa, Albert Einstein or drawings that simply represent humor in daily lives. Scott Wade is well known for his creativity. People often stop to admire and take pictures of his paintings.  The only drawback here is that, whenever it rains the art is washed away. As this doesn’t pull down Scott’s spirits. Scott wade sees this as an opportunity to create more art. Scott Wade belongs to an era of artists who envision art beyond the ordinary.

Via Scott’s DirtyCarArt.