Most of us are not conversant with Japanese onigiri. This is nothing but a rice ball in a cylindrical or triangular shape, wrapped in nori – a dried edible seaweed. This delectable item is traditionally filled with pickled ume – a variety of Asian plum, salted salmon, and many other ingredients. A Japanese artist, who […]
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Will you be comfortable with a snake coiled around your neck to make a style statement? Probably not. But Anna, a Ukrainian artist, makes it possible. No, not with live snakes, but with her incredible snake jewelry that looks strikingly similar to these slithery creatures. Why snakes? Well, serpents have found a place in history,
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Like we cannot imagine food without salt, Motoi Yamamoto cannot think art without salt! Foxed? Well, this Japanese artist uses this white mineral as an artistic material. And he has been at it for the past quarter-century. But, why salt? Salt has been traditionally linked with people’s lives in Japan, especially those from the east
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Stan Herd was always passionate about art but could not decide on the medium to express it. Once, while traveling by air, he looked out of the plane’s window and saw acres and acres of crop fields. It was his eureka moment and he decided to make the earth his canvas! Today, this American crop
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What started as a school hobby went on to become his passion. It was sketching that got Vlad Yashin totally hooked and he started sketching everything that caught his fancy. This Russian artist soon turned his attention to oil painting and today he uses both colored pencils and oil paints to create his artworks. This
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Give him any solid fruit and what you get back is breath-taking artwork. Such is the carving skills of Angel Boraliev, a fruit carving artist from Varna, Bulgaria. And of course, his pet fruit remains the pumpkin, the Halloween favorite. However, his creations are not limited to fruits, he also carves soaps and candles! Boraliev
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Architectural drawings remain in the domain of architects, right? Well, you cannot be more wrong! Here is an artist, Marc Poulier, who is capable of giving a run for the money to those who produce architectural designs on paper. Poulier, who is based in Melbourne, Australia, is an art director. Passionate about drawing, he used
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There are many people in this world who love animals, but this Irish photographer is actually passionate about them. This has enabled Allan Dixon to make countless friends in the animal kingdom and his incredible selfies with all kinds of animals certainly prove it. So close is Dixon to his animal friends that he has
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Lee Wagstaff, an English artist, certainly has a style of his own that doesn’t fail to awe his viewers. His geometric oil paintings, showcasing optical illusions, are what makes his works unique. His mesmerizing ‘moving images’ hold many hidden surprises. Wagstaff, who was born in London, UK, but now settled in Berlin, Germany, fragments and
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When the renowned Australian animal lover, Steve Irwin, crocodile hunter, died of stingray’s barb that pierced his heart, nobody could have imagined that his son would follow in his footsteps. This is because Robert Irwin’s age when Steve died was just three years. But that is exactly what Robert Irwin did and, today, this 17-year-old
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If you initially lay your eyes on the life-size sculptures created by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer, you may draw some comparison with the marble sculptures found in a Roman art gallery. However, what is surprising is these big sculptures are actually candles with wicks and all! And what does Fischer do with his wax