Tag: Portrait

Creativity

Old technology is used to create innovative portraits in public places

Artist Hsin-Chien Huang has created a moving installation entitled 'The Moment We Meet.' Huang uses split-flap displays to showcase a collection of faces that incorporate the different emotions and feelings expressed when...

By J Hudson · Jun. 06, 2019

Technology

Portraits created from the DNA left on your discarded chewing gum

Most of us don't think twice about tossing our used chewing gum or cigarette butts when we're done with them. Nor do we think about the hair we shed on a daily basis. It's all just trash, right? Turns out we're leaving behind more than...

By Cameron Chapman · Apr. 29, 2019

Photography

"Reunions" - where we are going to be in 30 years?

Street photographer Chris Porsz was actively photographing ordinary people during the 70s and 80s in his hometown Peterborough in England. During the ten previous years, Porsz tried to find the characters from his pictures...

By Venesa Musovic · Apr. 10, 2019

Painting

Teacher uses hand as medium for fun portrait project

You're going to wish you had a teacher like this… First-grade teacher Russel Powell has taken to using a unique medium for his realistic portrait paintings: his hand. Painting them on quickly before they have time to dry, Powell...

By Sophie Kruse · Feb. 04, 2019

Art

Artist known as Golden Sister makes adorable floral portraits using real flowers

"The actual act of creating each piece, for me, is therapeutic, spending lots of time outside walking and foraging, truly in the moment, my eyes scanning every square inch of my surroundings," says artist Golden Sister in her artist’s statement....

By Venesa Musovic · Nov. 15, 2018

Photography

Woman recreates the portraits of her ancestors dating back 200 years

Christine McConnell has gone back 200 years in her family photos and recreated the portraits of women in her family. To do this she dresses as them, styles her hair like them, and mimics the popular photography trends of the time...

By Justin Crowe · Aug. 21, 2018

Creativity

Precision printing with coffee droplets

Coffee has long been used by artists as a stain or a pigment. Sometimes it is purposeful so as to add a sepia brown to the work. And sometimes it is accidental as illustrated in this photo of coffee mugs that are marked “paint water”...

By Steph · Aug. 12, 2018

Photography

New 1980s style portraits capture the worst trends of the decade

Robbie Augspurger has captured the spirit of the '80s in a series of portraits titled 'Glamour & Headshots I and II' that recreate the look of the decade. Many of the portraits even include props. Augspurger uses authentic equipment,...

By Cameron Chapman · Aug. 08, 2018

Funny

10 adorable pets posing next to eccentric portraits of themselves

Some people REALLY like their pets. So much so that there is quite an industry for pet portraiture. These aren't always your average smiling pictures with gradated backgrounds, they can be much more eccentric. Humor blog Pleated...

By Justin Crowe · Jul. 19, 2018

Art

Queer people of color placed within Catholic iconography

In a photo series entitled 'Queer Icons,', photographer Gabriel Garcia Roman has reappropriated the Catholic iconography and religious halos that he remembers from his neighborhood church in Chicago. The artist explained...

By Steph · Jun. 30, 2018

Art

15th century sculptures re-imagined with bits of modern life

Sculptor and artist Gerard Mas is very serious about his art. And he well should be, because they are beautiful. Still, one can't help to have a smile - perhaps even let out a giggle or two - with his latest artwork. Imagine a classic...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Jun. 23, 2018

Illustration

“Fight Like a Girl” is a new book for teens

From Malala to Sojourner Truth, and from Judy Blume to Margaret Cho, Brooklyn-based illustrator Summer Pierre has created a series of portraits for the newly released book Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World....

By Steph · May. 16, 2018

Inspiration

10 over-the-top photographs of fashionable Moroccan Hipsters

The patterns! The colors! The accessories! Moroccan stylist and photographer, Hassan Hajjaj is not afraid to be bold. The series of photographs manages to frame the models in a state of casual elegance. The laid-back stances belie...

By Steph · Apr. 19, 2018

Fashion

Multimedia artist taps into the powerful effects of 'Transformational Makeovers'

Erica Prince is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn. She is the genius behind Transformational Makeovers, the product of exploring her real-life experiences of making over her friends. It all began as an honest, simple...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Mar. 08, 2018

Street art

Global street art project asks: Where will you paste your face?

Inside Out is a global art project founded and conceptualized by mysterious French artist JR. The idea is to give everyone the opportunity to share their vision of what they stand for by way of public portraiture from anywhere on...

By Nhan Tran · Feb. 16, 2018