Simply Creative

Sushi Art by Tama-chan

Japanese itamae (a traditional Japanese chef) Tama-chan (aka llustrator Takayo Chioyta) creates these amazing sushi artworks using food dye, soy sauce, green wasabi and other ingredients.

"I never know what the inside looks like so I'm never sure if it will come out the way I imagined. And I can't make edits when I'm done."

"Facial expressions are especially difficult because small ingredients or putting on too much force when you're wrapping the rolls can completely throw things off."

"It's always a special moment when I make the first incision to reveal an image."

Check her website: http://ameblo.jp/kururinzushi/

Source: dailymail

Japan’s Artistic Manhole Covers

There are a lot of beautiful designed and colored manhole covers in Japan. For the past several years photographer S. Morita has traveled around Japan photographing artistic manhole covers.

It all started almost 35 years ago, when a bureaucrat in the construction ministry suggested municipalities to design their own manhole covers, thereby making the high cost of sewage projects a little more palatable while encouraging taxpayers to take pride in their local area. Since then, a lot of artists are inspired to create and stylise beautiful manhole covers everyday.

According to the Japan Society of Manhole Covers, today there are almost 6000 artistic manhole covers throughout Japan.

You can see some of them in Morita’s photos here

Source: thisiscolossal

Monochrome Smoke Paintings by Michael Fennel

Michael Fennel uses smoke as medium to create his art.

"Smoke as a drawing medium is of course fundamentally flawed - it is tremendously volatile and a line cannot be drawn with it, but perhaps more importantly you can easily ignite your paper and burn down your studio!"

"Smoke is a unique medium that is not drawn, painted, printed, rubbed, flicked, blown or sprayed on - so what could we say - air borne? It can create the most beautiful blacks, that are 'luminous' and have depth to the extent that charcoal is flat and pale next to it. It an also create melting, nebulous edges and a great range of tones to rival those of photography."

"I think the dullness of photography is very apparent when I photograph my smoke paintings for reference. They revert back to the mechanical bland look of photography. Not only is the scale lost but the physical look of the painting is lost, for example in the darker, denser passages these areas are ever so slightly raised by their nature of having received more smoke."

"I have been able to find a way of fixing the image securely and permanently even in the dense, dark passages of the works. Contrary to what might be said, these areas cannot be fixed with conventional fixative."

"Each new piece of work I do in smoke is different from the last, this is due in part to the nature of the medium and my experimentation with it, and also my individual approach to the subject. I always look forward to new ventures with this volatile medium"

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If you like this kind of art, you might want to check Fernando de la Rocque's and Rob Tarbell's smoke art.

All images are © Copyright of Michael Fennel

Check his website: http://www.michaelfennell.com/

Psychogeographies by Dustin Yellin

Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin, composed street flowers, leaves, bugs, and even dead rats into three-dimensional collages using multiple layers of glass and resin.

"First and foremost, they’re massive see-through blocks. And that’s one way to read them, listen to them “speaking” as massive see through blocks. Another is to listen to what’s inside them. The forms, the clippings, the dead things, the painted things, frozen between the layers of glass, what I’ve called the captured and frozen “dynamism” of culture."

Check his website: dustinyellin.com, facebook and instagram

Stone Glass Sculptures by Ramon Todo

Tokyo-born artist Ramon Todo creates sculptures using layer of polished glass in stones and bricks.

Sharpie Mural Art by Sean Sullivan

Artist Sean Sullivan spend 7 long months scribbling away on a large wall with a Sharpie to create this detailed large scale mural titled 'Grand Pale Maw'.