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Rainscapes: Hyperrealistic Rainy Windshield Drawings by Elizabeth Patterson

 Fascinated by the texture and color of water artist Elizabeth Patterson challenged herself to recreate the absurdly complex formation of water droplets on rain-streaked windshields. Her ongoing series titled Rainscapes blends drawing, hyperrealism, and traditional landscape techniques resulting in images that can be seen as both real and abstract.

Patterson begins with her own photography and often utilizes several images for a single drawing, finding the details and patterns that feel right for each composition. Interestingly, the precise nature of the sharpened pencils results in drawings that are more detailed than her source material. You can see more of her work on her website as well as Louis Stern Fine Arts.

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Mirrored Photographs Combined with Watercolor by Fabienne Rivory

French artist Fabienne Rivory creates these unusually beautiful images by working with mirrored photographs and watercolor paints. Rivory has been making artwork that blends paint and photography since 2007, a process she likens to the exploration of memory versus reality.

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matt-molloy:

177 photos merged into one image using the lighten layer-blending mode in photoshop. I pass this field most days but I can only remember photographing it once before this. The first time was just a few photos, but this time I stuck around for a timelapse while the sun set.

ryandonato:

Amy Friend

Chandelier from Hilden & Diaz

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archiemcphee:

These awesome photos, in which rolling waves appear to be both perfectly frozen in time and miraculously made solid, are the work of French photographer Pierre Carreau.

Carreau “shoots waves with a variety of high speed cameras using various macro and wide angle lenses, capturing water shapes that appear more sculptural than liquid.”

Visit his Pierre Carreau’s website to view many more examples of his amazing work. He also offers prints of some of his images via Clic Gallery.

[via Colossal]

starkidpixie:

CGI images showing transportation routes of businesses such as pizza delivery.

starkidpixie:

Installations by Gabriel Dawe, using coloured thread to create the appearance of coloured light.