Inspirational Artists :: Living Portraits

This is seriously creative!
American installation artist, Alexa Meade, uses paint on three-dimensional surfaces as part of a series that encourages viewers to experience and interpret spatial relationships in a completely different manner. Instead of using paint to create portraits on canvas, Meade applies paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of a painting. 

via The Senses Five

Inspirational Artists :: The Invisible Man

Chinese artist Liu Bolin takes photos of himself painted so that he blends into his surroundings :: talk about unique camouflage! It can take him up to ten hours for him to complete a single shot! No trick photography, no photoshop...he just paints himself!

images by CATERS NEWS and Liu Bolin

Inspirational Artists :: Pour

In his "Pour" series, New York artist Holton Rower pours successive layers of paint onto three-dimensional surfaces. The end results are amazing, but it's the process that I think is truly mesmerizing! Don't miss the video below!

Living Painting

Van Gogh's painting A Wheatfield, with Cypresses, 1889, has been recreated in London's Trafalgar Square :: using over 8,000 different plants! Their hope is that it will attract visitors to the National Gallery where they can see the real thing...creative advertising at it's finest! The installation will remain in Trafalgar Square until the end of October 2011. 
I wish I could say I'll be traveling to London sometime before October, but sadly I am not. I would love to hear from you if you're lucky enough to see this in person!

Photos by B. Alter, and National Gallery

via Tree Hugger