art :: bottle cap portraits

Take a closer look. These super sized portraits are unusual in that they are made entirely of bottlecaps!

Molly B. Right's bottle cap series began with portraits of Jesus and his mother Mary but soon expanded to include a host of iconic women who evoke an ethereal presence and an earthy grit. In the artist's statement Molly writes, "This series of bottle cap pieces evolved from musings about the phrase “Jesus Saves”. Saves what? Does he just save souls? If he had the time or inclination, would he save string? Rubber bands? Would Jesus save bottle caps? Yeah. Somehow that became a full size bottle cap portrait of Jesus. Funny how one notion morphs into another. Now I’m doing bottle cap portraits of archetypal women that don’t have anything to do with Jesus saving anything. Now I’m the one who is saving bottle caps." Bottle cap paintings - their unusual and JUST COOL!

art :: what's love got to do with it

Ever wondered  who inspired some of the greatest artists of all time? Here are a few portraits by the masters, inspired by and painted of the object of their affection - their wives, husbands and lovers.

Henri Matisse's wife

Madame Matisse, "The Green Line"

1905

Marc Chagall's wife Vava

1966

Pablo Picasso's wife Olga

Tête et main de femme

1921

Salvadore Dali's wife Gala

Portrait of Gala with two porkchops

1933

Claude Monet's wife Camille

Camille au métier

1875

Leonardo da Vinci's lover, Salai

Salai as John the Baptist

1514

Frida Kahlo's husband Diego Rivera

1931

Happy Valentines Day everyone! Love...it's JUST COOL!

art :: from portrait to landscape

There's nothing like blending in with the landscape and artist Levi Van Veluw  knows how to do it. His camouflage portraiture is a little weird, a little quirky but really JUST COOL!

Levi van Veluw´s photo series are all self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: in  a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers – modifying the face as object – combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object with  large visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content.

art :: touching strangers

How do you ask complete strangers to pose with and touch each other? How do you do that in New York City of all places? Photographer Richard Renaldi managed to pull off this feat and his photos prove it. His images most often took the form of two or more strangers sitting on the same bench, waiting for a bus. Richard said, "It took some directing and orchestrating on my part, as people need to participate actively in the process of being photographed with a view camera ." After comtemplating the efforts it took to create his other "collections" his "...thoughts about that process led me to the idea of creating new photographs of strangers together, but pushing things a bit further by asking them to physically touch each other. Thus was born the idea of Touching Strangers.

In some of these, you'd never guess they were strangers - but in others body language says it all. These photos are JUST COOL!

via jmcolberg

Art :: Sleeve Face 'em

Sleeveface : one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion. Crap- and I've been passing up all those vinyl LPs at the tag sales! Now I know what to do with them. Uncle Juddso, are you reading this?

Sleeve Face 'em. It's JUST COOL!


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