PAINTING ON WATER - WATERY ART

Zhu Shenghi, a talented artist from China has developed a unique way of painting on water.Using a fine tool and naphta, he paints all kinds of detailed shapes on the surface of the water, but water isn't actually the real canvas. After he's finished the design, Zhu places a piece of paper that absorbs the paint from the surface of the water, thus becoming a regular painting without having been touched by any painting utensils.

PORTRAITS MADE OF SCREWS BY ANDREW MYERS

California based artist Andrew Myers drives screws at varying depths into plywood and paints over them, creating unique 3D images.

Andrew Myers starts with a plywood panel upon which he places pages of a phone book. He then draws out a face and drills 8,000 to 10,000 screws into each portrait.

For me, I consider this a traditional sculpture and all my screws are at different depths,” he said. “There’s nothing planned out. I draw out a figure on the board and figure out the depths.

“The real challenge comes when the sculpture is done and I have to get rid of the flat drawing. It’s hard because of the screws — you can’t get a brush behind them. I did figure out a way to do it, but I’m keeping it a secret.”

ICE AND SNOW SCULPTURE FESTIVAL IN HARBIN

The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province of People’s Republic of China, is one of the sources of ice and snow culture in the world.

BIRDS OF AMERICA - WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BOOK

Birds of America was first published as a series of sections between 1827 and 1838. Only 119 copies were published of which fewer than a dozen are in private hands. Each of the printed book were colored by hand, and it was an extremely laborious process. Even by today's standards, the vividness of its illustrations of birds is extraordinary but when it was being released in the 1830s it was mindboggling.

Audubon employed a rather shocking technique to produce the book. He hunted the birds down and shot them before propping them up on wires to paint. Each drawing would take about 60 hours to complete. Ironically, many of his beautifully rendered subjects are now extinct, such as the Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon, Labrador Duck, Great Auk, Esquimaux Curlew, and Pinnated Grouse.

LUXURIOUS GOLD PLATED CARS

Luxury is something expensive or hard to obtain. Well this post features a collection of gold plated cars owned by the Arabs, Middle East.


BUGATTI VEYRON


MERCEDES-BENZ C63 AMG


BMW M5


ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOM


ASTON MARTIN


PORSCHE 911


PORSCHE CAYENNE


DELOREAN JIOOV


SMART FORTWO


FIAT 500