Simply Creative

Gummy Bear Art by Johannes Cordes

German artist Johannes Cordes uses gummy bear as an art medium to create colorful works of art.

Sometimes he is sponsored by gummy bear maker Haribo. But since gummy bears come in only six colors,
Johannes Cordes has developed his own techniques to add the necessary colors and preserving his gummy bear art.

He uses acrylic paints and special crayons on the back of the gummy bears and adds up to 10 color coats and shadings to achieve the desired effect. Once all the gummy bears are in place, he uses a special varnish to hold them all in place.

He spend a lot of his time just sorting the gummy bears to ensure he gets the perfect gummy bears for his art.

Johannes unique art requires at least 3 tons of gummy bears a year, that’s around 200 packs a week.

Each of his gummy bear portrait takes from 100 to 240 hours to complete.

The best distance to admire his creations is from 10 – 20 meters away.

Check his website: http://www.das-atelier-cordes.de/

Check the video: http://mediacenter.dw.de/german/video/item/1067821/

Images and source taken from dailymail

Word Art by Michael Volpicelli

American artist Michael Volpicelli creates detailed portraits of people and animals out of written words related to them.

Check his website: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/michael-volpicelli.html

If you like this kind of art, you’re probably like the works of Anatol Knotek, John Sokol and Juan Osbornes.

All images are © Copyright of Michael Volpicelli

Pointillism by Pablo Jurado Ruiz

Spanish artist Pablo Jurado Ruiz creates incredibly detailed portraits by using countless black tiny dots to a white canvas.

“With a creative concept based primarily on human representation, I try to tell stories through a minimalist and subtle vision. My current work is focuses on a simple but realistic drawing and worked in an impressionist technique, complex and very accurate as pointillism or stippling art."

"Since childhood I liked to express my ideas with pencil and paper. Markers, paintings, tales and comics filled my world. At an early age I discover the European and American comics of the 80s and 90s and my first references as Milo Manara or Moebius. Later studying art history, painting captivates me with artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Georges Pierre Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso… all these influences coexist in my training and vision of art."

Check his website: pablojuradoruiz.wordpress.com

Lipstick Carvings by May Sum

Singapore-based artist May Sum carving expensive lipsticks from top brands in the makeup industry into detailed busts of various celebrities, for her “Strong Women” series.

Check her website: http://www.wahahafactory.com/ and http://www.etsy.com/shop/wahahafactory

Art With Salt by Bashir Sultani

Toronto-based artist, Bashir Sultani uses basic tools, like a razor blade and Q-tips to shapes the salt fine crystals into detailed portraits of modern icons.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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John Lennon

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Steve Jobs

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Morgan Freeman

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You can enjoy more of Bashir's unique and stunning artwork on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/bashirsultani

Check his website: http://bashirsultani.tumblr.com/

Bizarre Shoe Designs by Kobi Levi

Israeli shoe designer Kobi Levi creates these unusual footware that blurs the line between fashion and art.

"In my artistic footwear design the shoe is my canvas. The trigger to create a new piece comes when an idea, a concept and/or an image comes to mind. The combination of the image and footwear creates a new hybrid and the design/concept comes to life. The piece is a wearable sculpture. It is "alive" with/out the foot/body. Most of the inspirations are out of the "shoe-world", and give the footwear an extreme transformation. The result is usually humoristic with a unique point of view about footwear. Another aspect of the creation is the realization. All the pieces are hand-made in my studio. The challenging technical development is the key to bring the design to life in the best way."