Tag: Nature

Painting

Symbolic paintings show hidden animal rights meanings

Samuli Heimonon is a painter whose work is right out of a dream. While some of the paintings have a silent agenda for nature preservation and animal rights, all of Heimonon's works are mystical and captivating. "I'm very interested...

By Sophie Kruse · 3 days ago

Photography

Astronaut tweets amazing photo of first flower grown in space!

Tweeted out by social media savvy astronaut Scott Kelly, these two photographs show the first ever successfully grown flower in space. Part of an experiment conducted aboard the International Space Station to study the effects...

By Umar Ansari · 6 days ago

Art

Magical watercolors reveal lost connection between humans and nature

Indonesia-based artist Elicia Edijanto paints black and white watercolors in which children are facing their wild animal counterparts without fear, but with playfulness and curiosity. The artist avoids color and does not overcrowd...

By Adomas Vasiliauskas · Mar. 25, 2020

Illustration

9 black and white drawings that walk the line between sweetness and sadness

Based in Seoul, Korea, illustrator Henn Kim makes black and white drawings that she describes as beautiful, dark, and twisted. Her subject matter often includes images of the natural world, such as in the piece titled Kaleidoscope...

By Steph · Feb. 15, 2020

Creativity

From pencil to pen to digital, the thread of continuity in one artist’s drawings

Grids, spirals, boxes, and arcs are some of the underlying architecture components of Rochester, NY artist Andy Gilmore’s colorful and nature-inspired works. Although the line-work seems as though it would be uninteresting...

By Steph · Jan. 29, 2020

Sculpture

Curious sculptures explore the collision of nature and architecture

We humans tend to see ourselves as separate from nature, but that is not the case. Nature is all around us and we can never truly get away from it. Japanese sculptor Ocoze explores this collision between architecture, pop culture...

By Conner Flynn · Jan. 11, 2020

Creativity

Photographers blend nature and the human form through 19th century photo technique

Photographers Barbara Ciuer and Lindsay  Lochman created a project in which they used a special photo technique. The images were overlaid with the plants from their garden and exposed to sunlight. The artists were inspired by...

By Venesa Musovic · Dec. 14, 2019

Creativity

Amazingly detailed insect sculptures made from recycled paper

Influenced by nature, Kate Kato crafts detailed sculptures of the wonderful critters surrounding her. Using bits of recycled paper, Kato creates likenesses of mushrooms, flowers, and beetles from the Welsh valley...

By Umar Ansari · Dec. 03, 2019

Creativity

These strange animal clusters by Marco Mazzoni will freak you out!

Marco Mazzoni delivers perfectly bizarre illustrations to his audience. Making them at first believe they're looking at concentrated nests of flora and fauna. Upon closer inspection, the viewer discovers fish and amphibian...

By Umar Ansari · Nov. 07, 2019

Culture

The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is back, and 2017's sculptures are bigger than ever

We have previously covered a story about the very same festival, back in 2013. The annual festival is coming soon this year, and the sculptures are crazier and bigger than ever. Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is a tourist...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Nov. 05, 2019

Nature

Artificial lighting experimentation produces hyper-realistic, psychedelic images of flowers

We’ve always naturally seen flowers in their full bloom and color, not borrowing any of their innate beautiful aspects from another source. Just the thought of flowers clothed in a different color than what they are intended...

By Mariza Monta · Oct. 19, 2019

Nature

These photos of 50ft waves show the beauty and danger of Mother Nature

Photographer Luke Shadbolt believes that the striking pictures he has taken are a solid showcase of the violence of Mother Nature. He stresses that the waves he photographed represent a beautiful duality of creation and destruction....

By Venesa Musovic · Sep. 20, 2019

Painting

Mobile Habitats: Ecosystems thrive on turtle shells in paintings by Lisa Ericson

Hyperrealism and imagination come together in a fantastic blend of light, shadow, and color. Lisa Ericson is a Portland, Oregon-based artist who's works surround combinations of flora and fauna one piece at a time. Her series,...

By Umar Ansari · Aug. 31, 2019

Fashion

Bits of nature immortalized in jewelry to wear for eternity

Jewelry made from real flowers, leaves, and other organic materials generally fades in a matter of days. It also evokes images of hippies and flower children (they were called that for a reason) in the '60s and '70s creating flower...

By Cameron Chapman · Jul. 31, 2019

Funny

Illustrator combines birds and demonic things to create quirky works

Birds can be funny, right? That much is clear from artist Vorja Sánchez's latest illustrations. The Barcelona-based illustrator creates surreal paintings with all kinds of birds at the center of each piece. What sets his work...

By Umar Ansari · Jul. 28, 2019