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Scotch Tape Portraits

01/03/2013 by chicquero

Forget special effects, prosthetics and hyper-detailed makeup; all you need to turn a willing friend into a monster is a little Scotch tape. Photographer Wes Naman used the unassuming office supply to transform human faces into bizarre flesh mashups, creating a unique series both amusing and horrifying, full of deep meaning and metaphor, both negative and positive, a social commentary that defies all common sense. According to Wired, Naman stumbled upon the technique while wrapping Christmas presents with his assistant when the two […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: cool, face, funny, hilarious, laugh, office, people, photography, portraits, scotch tape, series, supplies, tape, Wes Naman

Double exposure portraits

12/28/2012 by chicquero

Brazilian photographer Heitor Magno is a really cool visual artist who’s behind some very eye-catching double exposures. He applies many of his double exposed imagery “like a tattoo artist on flesh; the effect is seamless and stunning at times”. Reminiscent of Matt Wisniewski‘s work, Heitor often mixes the human body with various natural elements and he literally likes to “play with fire” in a darker conceptual way. Awesome portraits! Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: brazilian photographer, double exposure, fire, Heitor Magno, natural elements, photography, portraits, tattoo

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Cartoon Skull Masks for a Halloweenish mode.

10/31/2012 by chicquero

Happy Halloween guys! We just found out about the artwork of Jannis Markopoulos and really enjoyed his oil on canvas “Cartoon Skull Mask” series. “The mask is an object worn over or in front of the face of a skull to hide the identity of it and by its own features to establish a part of a cartoon being. This essential characteristic of hiding and revealing personalities or moods is common to all masks. As cultural objects they have been used […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: cartoon, halloween, Jannis Markopoulos, oil on canvas, portraits, skull masks, Walt Disney

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Beautiful and repulsive portraits

10/23/2012 by chicquero

Photo artist Oleg Dou is a multi award-winning based in Moscow. He is celebrated internationally for his staggeringly unique vision. His focus on artistry and craft is transformative. Oleg was born in Moscow on 19th of August 1983. His mother was a painter, and I he spent a lot of time among artists, though not particularly interested in their activities. “I felt an urge for arts and creation some time ago, when I was working as a web designer, which pushed me to study […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: artist, arts, beautiful, beauty, creepy, digital, graphic design, kids, Oleg Dou, photography, photoshop, portraits, repulsive, young

Weird beauty

09/29/2012 by chicquero

Alexander Khokhlov is a Russian photographer who loves to use the human face as his canvas for creating graphic, black and white face painting with makeup. From the WiFi icon to the pop icon Mickey Mouse or a QRcode across his model’s faces, Khokhlov’s project is quite interesting. Rather than relying on canvas, paper, or any other synthetic material, Khokhlov relies on the beauty and lines of the feminine face to form this project, entitled Weird Beauty. Check it out! Where’s your will to […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: Alex Khokhlov, black and white, Chanel, Mickey Mouse, portraits, russian photographer, weird beauty, white canvas, wifi

Luxury chicks

07/30/2012 by chicquero

It´s absolutely incredible how photographer Peter Lippmann came up with an awesome editorial for Marie Claire, featuring lady birds portraits, I mean, chicks wearing ‘haute joaillerie’ such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Buccellati and Piaget/Boucheron. Just for the record, Peter had work for huge names such as Cartier, Christian Louboutin, among others. For sure, a very creative and interesting way of showcasing luxury jewelry. You´ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to a real chicken dish. […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: boucheron, Buccellati, cartier, chicken, chicks, Lady bird, luxury jewelry, Marie Claire, Peter Lippmann, Piaget, portraits, Van Cleef & Arpels

Funny monkey portraits

07/26/2012 by chicquero

Jill Greenberg was born in July of 1967 in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in suburban Detroit. She graduated in 1989 form the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and moved to New York City to pursue a career in photography. Jill was based in New York until 2001, and now resides in Los Angeles. For the series “Monkey Portraits”, Greenberg has created a series of monkey portraits and asks us to consider, in another way, […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: animals, arts, cool, funny, humor, jill greenberg, monkeys, photography, portraits

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Old Car portraits

05/29/2012 by chicquero

Ryan Schude is a Los Angeles based photographer that focus his artwork around a conceptual and narrative framework. This is a cool series of ”vintage cars portraits”, shot mostly with his Lomo Lubitel 166+. I love the effect of Lomo photographs, perfect faded colors and beautiful lighting, creating this cool vintage vibe. “I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I’m gone.” Stephen Wright >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Vans […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: automobile, car, cars, classic, lomo, lubitel, old, photography, photos, portraits, Ryan Schude, vehicle, vintage, vintage cars

mANIMAL portraits

05/26/2012 by chicquero

These awesome painted animal masks on photographic portraits are the work of French artist Charlotte Caron, who graduated recently from Fine Arts with honors. This is a beautifully imaginative hybrid of humans and animals that particularly stood out from the other series she had created. “This series of paintings, photographs, trying to respond to a form of duality—that assumes an animal part—by the medium of painting in addition, runs, mask, portraits. Ultimately creates an osmosis between the two mediums, so […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: animal, animan, Charlotte Caron, french artist, human being fusion, manimal, photography, portraits

Pin me with sunnies!

05/16/2012 by chicquero

Philip Karlberg’s last editorial for Plaza Magazine plays a funny game with the characteristic accessory of sunglasses and introduces “pin art” at the same time. Karl Lagerfeld, John Belushi, Jack O, Johnny Depp, Karl Lagerfeld, Lady Gaga and Steve McQueen (in the following order)… all of them are more themselves with sunnies on! This is the way the photographer has transformed the still life into a little mystery. Eyewear is the main visual clue; painted pins conform the rest of […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: Celebrities, cool, Philip Karlberg, photography, pin, Plaza magazine, pop art, portraits, sunglasses

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Lomo Lubitel Portraits

04/25/2012 by chicquero

Photographer Ryan Schude in a Series of portraits taken with the Lomo Lubitel 166+ medium format camera. Lubitel refers to any of the several medium format twin-lens reflex cameras manufactured in Russia by LOMO. The design is based on the early 1930′s Voigtländer Brillant camera with various improvements. They are often considered toy cameras due to cheap price, bakelite and later plastic construction and low build quality. However the Lubitels use 120 film, feature Cooke triplet, all-glass lenses and shutter speeds can […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: camera, cool, lomo, Lomo Lubitel 166+, lubitel, medium format, photography, photos, portraits, Ryan Schude, vintage

The person I know best..

01/21/2012 by chicquero

Kimiko Yoshida Self-Portraits, 2010. Born in Tokyo, Japan (1963). Lives in Europe since 1995. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Geometrik Pragmatic way I see art in the mirror Clown Portraits

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, art portraits, black, costumes, face, kimiko yoshida, make-up, photoshoot, portraits, self portraits, white

Color my pictures

01/19/2012 by chicquero

Sweden-based artist Sanna Dullaway re-imagines photos from yesteryear in vibrant, realistic images, by replacing the varied shades of gray. The series features portraits of well-known people throughout history including Abraham Lincoln, Che Guevara, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Anne Frank, and a young Charlie Chaplin without his signature mustache. Dullaway’s color restoration project breathes new life into these aged, colorless images. Though many of them are wonderful, in their own right, there’s something new and fresh about the photographs after the artist […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: black, coloring, history, photography, photos, photoshop, pictures, portraits, recreated, sanna dullaway, vintage, white

Fashionic, comic, iconic.

11/19/2011 by chicquero

Fashimals is a tumblr dedicated to portraying fashion icons as animals. Using a few of their iconic characteristics they replace some of the fashion industry most known faces with animals that suit their personalities in some way or another in a perfect and comic way. It is amazing how obvious and appropriate all of these are, most of them you can guess immediately! Fantabulous! For you to find out who is who just check the name of the photo! And […]

Categories: Design, Fashion, Laugh • Tags: Alber Elbaz, Andre Leon Talley, animals, Anna Della Russo, Anna Wintour, caricature, Carine Roitfeld, comic photos, comic portrait, Daphne Guiness, fashimal, fashion designers, fashion editors, fashion icons, fashion industry, fashionic, Grace Coddington, Hamish Bowles, iconic, Karl Lagerfeld., Kate Lanphear, Leigh Lezark, models, Olivier Zahm, portraits, Rei Kawacubo, Terry Richardson, topmodels, tumblr, Valentino, Vera Wang

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Clown pencil portrait

11/10/2011 by chicquero

Denis Braguini Bevacqua, pencil, 2 3/8″ x 2 5/8″ Today I´ve got an e-mail from Scott Hamilton, saying that he ”art spammed” me. (at first, I thought WTF?) So I went to check it out his post.. and I was thrilled, he made my portrait as shown in my twitter profile picture, I definitely look way better in the portrait, good job Scotty. In his project, he will be making miniature portraits in pencil & coloured pencil, based on public profile […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arte, artist, clown, costume, culture, Design, draw, drawings, face, fotografia, pencil, photographer, photography, portrait, portraits, scott hamilton

We still talk about cassettes & diskettes!

10/24/2011 by chicquero

Creative and super talented Nick Gentry is a British artist that graduated in Central St Martins (so jealous!) and has his work exhibited in the UK, USA and Europe. As part of a generation, I mean, our generation that grew up surrounded by floppy disks, VHS tapes, polaroids and cassettes, he is inspired by the sociological impact of a new internet culture. His portraits combine pretty old media formats, making a comment on waste culture, life cycles and identity. Using […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arte, artista, british artist, canvas, cassettes, cd, Central St Martins, culture, diskettes, disks, draw, eco art, Europe, exhibition, floppy disks, geek, geeky, go green, green, internet culture, media formats, nerd, Nick Gentry, paint, photo-fits, polaroids, pop art, portraits, social media, St Martins, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable art work, sustentabilidade, technology, UK, USA, VHS, VHS tapes, waste

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