Art Bodypainting Wallpaper: September 2011

Diwali rangoli designs

Diwali Rangoli Designs

Rangoli is a traditional decorative folk art of India. These are decorative designs made on floors of living rooms and courtyards during Hindu festivals and are meant as sacred welcoming areas for the Hindu deities. The ancient symbols have been passed on through the ages, from each generation to the one that followed, thus keeping both the art form and the tradition alive. Rangoli designs can be simple geometric shapes, deity impressions, flower and petal shapes.

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Nice Rangoli

Lord Ganesh Rangoli

Happy Diwali Rangoli

Peacock Rangoli

Traditional Rangoli

Big Rangoli Design

Flower Rangoli Design

Source for most of all above images is: http://lilisokey-lovewallpaper.blogspot.com/2010/11/colorful-rangoli-designs-flower.html

To know more about Rangoli Please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoli
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Snake Tattoo

Mini Manhattan Carved Out of 2.5 Tons of Marble by Yutaka Sone

“Little Manhattan” by Japanese artist Yutaka Sone is an exquisitely detailed 2.5 ton marble model of Manhattan. To ensure accuracy, Sone looked at photographs, satellite images from Google Earth, and flew over the city on helicopter rides to view the buildings, streets, bridges, and topographical nuances of the Big Apple. The eight foot long model is on display at the David Zwirner gallery in New York City through October 29, 2011.

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Band Tattoo

Realistic Embroidery Portraits by Cayce Zavaglia

Originally a painter, Cayce Zavaglia still thinks of her embroidered portraits as paintings. Zavaglia might use wool, but her work borrows techniques from drawing and painting. Frustrated by the limitations of the range of colors available to her, she created a system of sewing the threads in a particular sequence that give the allusion of specific colors or tones.

Zavaglia explains:

Initially, working with an established range of wool colors proved frustrating. Unlike painting, I was unable to mix the colors by hand. Progressively, I created a system of sewing the threads in a sequence that would ultimately give the allusion of a certain color or tone. The direction in which the threads were sewn had to mimic the way lines are layered in a drawing to give the allusion of depth, volume, and form. Over time the stitches have become tighter and more complex but ultimately more evocative of flesh, hair, and cloth.