Jil Ellerbrock – Two years in and finding her stride
At 16, Jil Ellerbrock was one of the youngest artists to enter our North American Artist Showcase. Still living with her parents in Hamburg, Germany,...
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Loretta Kasper – It’s a Statten Island Thing
A retired professor, Loretta Kasper works from her home studio in Staten Island, New York City. After starting her artistic development painting in acrylics, and...
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An Artist On A Mission – Jerry Chacon
Jerry Chacon’s entry in our North American Artist Showcase received the most votes. With almost 20,000, Jerry did an amazing job of publicizing his art....
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Artist Breathes New Life Into Old Disney Scenes By Painting Over Them
Most people bristle at the prospect of seeing updates or remakes of their favorite childhood books, shows or movies. Digital artist and Illustrator Tyson Murphy,...
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Artist Paints Common Foods to Disguise them as Other Foods
In this fun series of painted objects titled “It’s not what it seems” by artist Hikaru Cho, common foods are transformed with deftly applied acrylic...
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The Artist Who Paints With Their Fingers Only… and is Bellissimo!
Southern Italian artist Paolo Troilo lives and works in Milan. Troilo’s explosive paintings are created without any brushes and instead he uses only his hands and jars...
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Artist Paints a Woman to Look Like a Parrot
It looks like a simple painting of a parrot perched on a tree stump, but take a closer look and a whole different story begins...
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Famed Portraits and Paintings Recreated with Found Objects
UK-based artist Jane Perkins produces incredible pieces that recreate classic works of art and portraits of iconic figures using thousands of multicolored found objects. Each...
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The Ceramic French Bulldog in Love With a Cat by Angie Rehe [video]
In October of last year, artFido had the privilege of auctioning off 13 hand painted ceramic French Bulldogs for charity with 100% of proceeds going to Wear...
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Michael D’Antuono’s Trayvon Martin Protest Piece on artFido
UK’s ‘American’ magazine called Michael D’Antuono “one of the world’s most controversial artists.” And quite rightly so. After very successful careers in advertising and illustration,...
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Incredibly Realistic Rainy Day Paintings by Karen Woods
On a rainy afternoon, artist Karen Woods observes large raindrops as they transform windshields and window panes into beautiful formations. She then converts those meditative...
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We Thought These People Looked Weird. A Closer Look Left Us Absolutely Speechless
OK well the title of this blog is a little misleading as we’ve known about Australian ex-pat Ron Mueck‘s works for some time and have...
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You’re Never Too Old… 97 Year Old Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows 95
Meet Hal Lasko, mostly known as Grandpa, a 97-year-old man who uses Microsoft Paint from Windows 95 to create artwork that has been described as “a...
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artFido’s North American Artist Showcase – artFido blog
artFido is less than two years old. Yet in that short amount of time, this little puppy has developed quite a bark, becoming one of...
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Light Hearted Paintings by an Unknown Denmark Artist Called S.E.M
Following on from Banky’s recent “New York Residency” during October (read HERE), one would be forgiven for thinking that “to make it” in the art...
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Some Kids Graffiti-ed This Man’s Garage Door. His ‘Revenge’ is Simply Awesome!
Some wannabe graffers tagged all over redditor Elusive92‘s garage door hired local graffiti artist “Lake13” to come and create a work of art over the graffiti tags....
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100 of the Best Street Art Photos of the Decade
We’ve scoured the world to find the best street art created over the last decade. With so many great works produced during this time it...
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Kids Let Their Father Color In Their Drawings With Spectacular Results!
A little while ago, we introduced you to illustrator Mica Hendricks and her 4-year-old daughter who collaborated on a wonderful series of drawings that pass back and...
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Imaginative Eye Makeup Art by Tal Peleg
Most of us are familiar with makeup application as an everyday thing that women (and sometimes men) do to enhance their appearance. Professional Israeli makeup...
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This Portrait of Morgan Freeman Was “Painted” on an iPad Using 285,000 Finger Strokes!
Remember iPad art? We previously wrote an article about David Kassan that tried it a little while ago to great effect (see HERE). Well British...
