Thursday, March 21, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Pencil Celebrity Portraits by Rik Reimert
Bruce Willis
All artist Rik Reimert needs to create these detailed illustrations is some paper and some ink. The rest is a series of lines and hashmarks that Reimert builds, from light to dark, with Rotring Rapidographs—a variety of technical writing devices that provide consistent ink flow. The artist begins with pencil and then fills in the lines with his pens that vary in thickness from 0.2 to 0.8mm tips.
Most of the illustrations take an average of 6 to 8 hours to complete and feature famous celebrities like Benicio Del Toro, Bruce Willis, and Jaime Foxx. The artist says he chooses ink and paper because "Analog, that’s my thing. From music to photographs to art. Yes, of course we use computers and cellphones, but isn’t it great to put on a record on your turntable on a Sunday morning and just enjoy the cracks in the music and the great artwork on the cover?" 11 more images after the break...
Benicio Del Toro
Charles Bronson
Danny Glover
Danny Trejo
Isaac Hayes
Jamie Foxx
Mel Gibson
Morgan Freeman
Robert Downey Jr.
Ron Perlman
Sting
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Painted Art On Nuts
They're nut bad! Inventive artist creates celebrities by painting on PEANUTS
- Inch-tall monkey nuts and their shells are turned into works of art
- Artist Steve Casino, from Ohio, has created nut versions of the stars
- They include Alfred Hitchcock, James Brown and Johnny Cash
By
Leon Watson
Leon Watson
PUBLISHED: 16:36 GMT, 28 February 2013 | UPDATED: 07:41 GMT, 1 March 2013
What a nutter!
Artist Steve Casino's bizarre paintings of celebrities on the side of monkey nuts are worth more than just peanuts after they become salt-after work.
The inch-tall shells might look like a normal nut from the back but Mr Casino's works of art on the other side are leading to punters to shell out hundreds of pounds for them.
Mr Casino has created nut versions of Alfred Hitchcock, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Frankenstein's monster and Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious from the Sex Pistols.
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