Paintings

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Faux Facades, by Patrick Commecy

Street Art, by Patrick Commency
Street Art, by Patrick Commency
Street Art, by Patrick Commency
Street Art, by Patrick Commency
Street Art, by Patrick Commency

Patrick Commecy, together with his team, creates huge murals of hyper-realistic facades that bring blank and boring city walls to life.

What’s interesting here is that while these realistic yet fake facades trick you at first glance, some of the people painted there were once real. Commecy often paints many notable people from the history of the town the mural is in.

There are some great videos on his site of the creation of these pieces.

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Typical Americans by State, by Sara Thompson on Midjourney

New Jersey
New York
Michigan

Recently, a writer at BuzzFeed, Sara Thompson, decided to see what would happen when she asked Midjourney what a typical person from each American state looked like (AImericans?). These are the three from the states I’ve lived in, but you can see all 50, here.

Why does Indiana seem the only state that’s happy?

(via @mymodernmet.com)

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Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli

Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli
Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli
Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli
Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli
Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli
Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli
Coffee Paintings, by Giulia Bernardelli

Italians are known for their love of coffee, but while most enjoy espresso for its taste, artist Giulia Bernardelli appreciates it for its creative potential. She turns spilled coffee into works of art that look like detailed watercolor paintings.

(via MyModernMet.com)

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Sistine Chapel Cartoons, by Raphael

New Online Tool Reveals Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Cartoons in Stunning Detail.

Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Cartoons
Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Cartoons
Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Cartoons
Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Cartoons
Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Cartoons
Raphael’s Sistine Chapel Cartoons

High-resolution scans from the V&A offer an unprecedented view of the Renaissance drawings, down to every last line and wrinkle, with options for Visible, Surface, and Infrared.

Visit the Victoria & Albert Museum to see the tool, here:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/explore-the-raphael-cartoons

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Reconstructed Roman Emperors, by Haround Binous

Haroun Binous, an artist from Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, is bringing the emperors back to life in a series of hyper-realistic illustrations. Combining facial recognition AI, Photoshop, and historical references, Binous is reviving all the Roman emperors, from Augustus to Valentinian III.

Augustus
Philip II
Galba
Tiberius
Caligula
Nero
Domitian
Gordian III
Theodosius I

See the rest at BoredPanda.com

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Hummingbird Tattoo

Hummingbird Tattoo, for Leah Crocetto

My friend (and karaoke partner) Leah asked if I would draw a hummingbird for her to have tattoo’d on her wrist. I’ve always loved the vibrancy and energy of watercolor tattoos and wanted to give it a try myself.

The hummingbird was sketched from reference photos found online, then painted in watercolor, and retouched in Photoshop.

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Neoclassical Girl, by Julien de Casabianca

Artist Julien de Casabianca (previously) is known for wheatpasting subjects from famous paintings onto public infrastructure as part of his ongoing Outings Project. Last month the French artist was invited to present a monumental installation at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee alongside an exhibition and workshop. De Casabianca’s seven-story mural features a melancholic girl pulled from William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s 1886 neoclassical painting “Au pied de la falaise,” which is included in the museum’s collection.

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