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It makes us proud to announce that we've just added five new works by Alex Rommel to My Modern Shop! Alex Rommel is a Siberia, Russia-born artist who creates mesmerizing digital paintings that showcase the wonder and beauty of nature. In particular, the Germany-based 25-year-old artist is an expert at creating digital paintings of skyscapes, showing us the magical beauty of the skies. The viewer is transported to another world filled with swooping clouds and majestic colors.

Portland artist and Peculiariumist Mike Wellins finds paintings in flea markets, thrift stores and yard sales and revitalizes them with new elements. The fun comes from finding something that is so boring that it isn’t even noticed and turning it into something that is strange, shocking or funny.

This man revised this painting for his dad who is a big Lord of the Rings fan.

A 31-year-old sci-fi fan has recreated masterpieces - from Star Wars figures.
David Eger wanted to combine his love of the films with passion for photography and art in a year-long project.
The result is a hilarious series entitled 12 Months of Hope, Empire & Jedi which replaces classical figures in paintings with characters from the films.
Mr Eger rom Milton, Ontario is an author of long photo projects - 52 Weeks of Star Wars and 365 Days of Clones - but wanted to do one with a more...

Just imagine: you come to the refrigerator and see Edward Scissorhands...

New York-based artist Justen Ladda has an amazing eye for perspective and distortion. Since the 1980s, he has combined painting with sculpture to produce flat installations that, from a distance, appear three dimensional. With precision and a vivid imagination, Ladda has developed so many different scenes that will just blow your mind! Before creating a piece, the artist visualizes the final work in his mind, paying close attention to the very small details. He works in assorted mediums to create his optical illusions, using everything from pigmented shellac and vinyl paints to fluorescent acrylic and plywood. By mastering angles and paying close attention to very tiny details, the talented artist is able to master all kinds of visual tricks.

Aleksei Vinogradov is a Russian freelance digital artist who shares his skills and talent with 120k followers on Instagram. His charming artistic touch, masterful use of pastels and subtle brush strokes create lively portraits full of character and attract the attention of art lovers from around the world. His beautiful works are achieved mainly with the help of Procreate app and a tablet.

Art history can be an incredibly complicated topic and a really tough nut to crack for anyone who hasn’t spent years upon years learning the various intricacies and subtleties needed to master the subject. Luckily for all art lovers who just haven’t got the time to understand all the ins and outs of art history, the internet has provided some hilarious and easy-to-grasp tips

We rarely have a chance to see what an artist saw when he was creating his masterpiece. But the Russian painter Stepan Nesterchuk from Dmitrov decided to provide us with such an opportunity. And, you know, it’s really cool to immerse yourself into the atmosphere of art creation.

Artist Jeff Bennett has created ‘Wars On Kincade’, a series of paintings by the late Thomas ‘Painter of Light’ Kinkade with epic Star Wars themes added in.

The artist can draw inspiration from mundane moments and create art on any given canvas, and size is never a limit. What about vintage Altoid tins?Using small wood panels and a compact palette of paint, Remington Robinson paints mini plein air paintings that could fit in your pocket. Robinson moved to Boulder, Colorado, in 2004, following his passion for painting mountains.

Karthikeyan Velappan has been sketching all his life, and he was into simple black and white sketches on paper, until he came across the apple pencil for the iPad pro. He has been doing some digital artwork over the last two months. And he’s been able to well adapt to the new style of putting out his imagination.

I am Norvile Dovidonyte, an artist from Lithuania. I work primarily with watercolors and ink. I can’t imagine my day without a cup of coffee and strange, beautiful things, which inspire me to create playful characters. I’m inspired by all kinds of things: people, nature, daily life, fairy tales, childhood memories and children’s books! Watercolors are my medium of choice and I enjoy working with it. The colors always blend in fresh and surprising ways, which I love.

For its way to reveal the texture of the paper, as well as the material on itself, the graphite is the ideal medium to achieve the atmosphere I want to bring out in my artworks. It allows a full and obvious light and shadows play. It’s a restless backward and forward movement between light and shadows, one existing only in relation to the other. The merging blacks and grays offer countless landscapes, discreet but real, awaiting for one’s imagination to get into. My inspirations find their...

Lithuanian painter Modestas Malinauskas paints surreal oil paintings with ships floating in the air and magical balloons flying around. There are people living there, huge fishes, bridges, magic buildings and heaven apples. His works are full of romance and joy of life.

Stephanie Law finds magic in the mundane, bridging the botanical and fantastical in her watercolors. “Mythology has always drawn me in,” she says, “And I’m not alone in that. The oral traditions of myth had perpetuated through the ages because at the core of these stories are vital bits of humanity. They are pieces that resonate with me, and they inspire me to try to create visual reflections that I can hopefully share and create resonance with my viewers.”

If embroidery makes you think of samplers full of minute flowers and sweet sayings, think again. (Not that there's anything wrong with those--I love embroidery samplers.) But embroidery, that traditionally tame craft of proper ladies, gets an intense, artistic update thanks to artist Cayce Zavaglia. Trained as a painter, she developed a way to use embroidery to create portraits of her friends, family and fellow artists that have surprising depth and detail, and are incredibly lifelike.

There isn’t exactly a college out there for face painting so Elsa Rhae Pageler‘s talent is as raw as it comes. Perhaps what’s even more amazing is that the video editor and producer from Kansas City graduated with a degree in Film and Media Studies and only does face painting and airbrushing as a side job. An application may take anywhere from 1 to 3 hours and apart from outside gigs, she features video tutorials on her YouTube channel showing how she paints herself to recreate video game...

Nanjing, China is now home to the largest 3D painting ever. It measures out to ​​2737.5 square meters and is definitely a sight to see.

This is what happens when you let a 4 year old play with your passport.

Simon Hennessey is a Birmingham, UK based artist who paints realistic images of famous landmarks around the world as reflected in the lenses of a pair of sunglasses. Like most hyper-realistic painters, Hennessey’s process starts with the camera. But instead of simply copying the photograph, the artist proceeds to add or remove details, depth, add textures, form and color values, thereby creating an illusion of a reality not seen in any photographic source. “My Paintings therefore appear clearer and more distinct than a photograph. constructing my own interpretations of a reality results in blurring the boundaries of what is real and what is made up,” said Simon Hennessey. “I use the camera only as a source to assist me with gathering information.”

The UK artist Shitty Watercolour has become semi-famous on the Internet for his funny and clever paintings. Here’s a roundup of a few of his celebrity portraits as sloths.

If you haven’t already guessed, we’re big fans of portrait art here on SBSG, but we have to admit it’s not every day you see artwork painted using merely a basketball! But that’s precisely the tool Malaysian artist Hong Yi used to create her portrayal of Chinese basketball player Yao Ming. Below is a time-lapse video of her bouncing the ball and bringing her creation to life using nothing more than red paint. Quite how she achieved such an impressive feat is still somewhat of a mystery, but then again that’s half the fun isn’t it? In her own words “I love to paint, but not with a paintbrush.”, she’s true to her word too. You can see the full range of her artistic experiments via redhongyi.com, there’s not a brush in sight.