Amazing Arts Which Were Surprisingly Made in MS Paint

His art is a far cry from the stick men most of us are capable of making on Paint

[Yahoo! News}- It’s known as being the go-to tool for clumsy doodles and childlike scribbles, but it turns out Microsoft Paint can actually be used to create incredible works of art.

The internet went into mourning on Monday as news spread that the programme was being discontinued.

But today Microsoft confirmed that it will continue to offer Paint through the Windows Store – though it won’t included on Windows 10 by default.

This will be music to the ears of US illustrator Pat Hines, who uses the programme for his artistic creations.

He has used the software to create beautiful illustrations for an e-book, as well as producing intricate portraits and incredibly detailed landscape drawings.

Pat says he uses the old-school programme because he ‘sucks’ at using Adobe Photoshop.

But that doesn’t mean his method is easy. He told the BBC: ‘I wouldn’t say it’s easy, it definitely takes quite a while. It could take upwards of 20 hours for just one piece.’

These are some of his astonishing creations.

His art is a far cry from the stick men most of us are capable of making on Paint

This picture of a wedding day was created with the click of a mouse

Intricate details appear in Pat’s Paint art

Pat used Paint for this portrait of a friend’s baby

A detailed depiction of a scene from Harry Potter

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is given the Paint treatment

Silhouetted figures are created on the software

Incredible Origami Animals By Spanish Gonzalo García Calvo

The collection includes birds of prey made in intricate details

Professional musician Gonzalo García Calvo has created lots of outstanding origami animals and other objects using various of different techniques and papers.

The 35-year-old sells some of his more complex creations but gives away the simpler ones which he often left in public for people to find. 

Below are some of the Madrid-based Spanish origami master’s awesome creation.

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Gonzalo Garcia, from Madrid, spends hours making the miniature creatures, including birds of prey, rhinos and even dragons and unicorns, out of paper. (Pictures: SWNS)

Gonzalo has even created a Game of Thrones-style dragon. (Pictures: SWNS)

The menagerie includes fantasy creatures like this unicorn. (Pictures: SWNS)

Simple designs like this duck are left around for people to find. (Pictures: SWNS)

The collection includes birds of prey made in intricate details (Pictures: SWNS)

This tiny spider is one of the Madrid-based artist’s pieces. (Pictures: SWNS)

A black and tan doberman is one of Gonzalo’s favourite. (Pictures: SWNS) creations

One of Gonzalo Garcia’s creations is a miniature elephant (Pictures: SWNS)

Drawing Using Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet

Apricot, the cat. My first drawing using the Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet.

I drew the above picture using our Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet.

It’s easy to draw with the tablet because it is similar to drawing using a pencil.

But the hard part is, the lines that I draw are not as straight and as smooth as and as the lines that I draw with a pencil because when I’m looking at the tablet, I can’t look at what I’m drawing,

But after the undos and redos, I finished my drawing, and I think that the result is very nice 😉

I really enjoy using the Wacom Intuos Creative Pen Tablet.

Astonishing Sculptures From Paper

For most people, paper is used in printers, for random notes or occasional doodles. However, artists across the globe are taking the ancient material to a whole new level, fashioning everything from 3D sculptures to intricate cut-outs.

Paper sculpture is very beautiful as shown in these photos.

Among the popular paper sculpture artists are Li Hongbo, Simon Schubert and Bovey Lee.

Rogan Brown’s work is inspired by the age-old tradition of scientific drawings and model making.

Cheong-ah’s studio is completely void of natural light so that UV rays don’t harm her paper stash.

From plants and birds to shoes and architecture, Cheong-ah manages to capture the complexity of natural and man-made forms.

Funny Pothole Arts

And they dived straight in – creating everything from a pothole bowl of cereal for breakfast to a popcorn machine. Pictured: Popcorn machine pothole. (Caters News)

Potholes are annoying but in these photos the potholes were transformed into funny pothole art by some creative people.

Pictured: Cereal bowl pothole. (Caters News)

Pictured: Eggs in nest pothole. (Caters News)

Fun-natured drivers from Scranton, Pennsylvania have been challenged by an arts group to turn the ugly craters in their neighborhood into pothole art. Pictured: Washing up pothole. (Caters News)

The Pop Up Studio, who designed the guerrilla art campaign titled Pothole: Positively Filling Negative are looking into starting an international competition after receiving such a big response. Pictured: Barbie swimming pool pothole. (Caters News)

Giant Globe Made From Matches

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Artist Andy Yoder used 300,000 matchsticks to made a giant globe weighing 90kg and is 43 inches in diameter.

The project took him two years.

The New York based artist used satellite images of the Earth during Hurricane Sandy as a basis for the sculpture as well as a second hand desktop globe to help map the contours of each country.

Each matchstick is hand painted to achieve the most accurate colour pigment.

Reluctant to see all of his hard work go up in flames, Andy took the decision to dip each match in a fire retardant.

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Yahoo News UK – Andy’s art is a match for the best. (Caters)

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Yahoo News UK – Andy’s art is a match for the best. (Caters)

Yahoo News UK – Andy’s art is a match for the best. (Caters)

A Picture Says A Thousand Words, Portraits By Sean Williams

 

(Illustration by Sean Williams/Caters News)

Sean Williams, from Alberta, Canada, creates pop icon portraits with typography depicting their popular hits.

I think that Sean Williams is very creative.

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Marilyn Monroe (Illustration by Sean Williams/Caters News)

Rihanna (Illustration by Sean Williams/Caters News)

Darth Vader (Illustration by Sean Williams/Caters News)

Bob Marley (Illustration by Sean Williams/Caters News)

Harry Styles (Illustration by Sean Williams/Caters News)

Justin Timberlake (Illustration by Sean Williams/Caters News)

Photos: Zaria Forman’s Spectacular Life-Like Paintings

Greenland #69
50″x 50″
soft pastel on paper
(Zaria Forman)
Visit Zaria’s website and follow her on Facebook. Limited edition prints

The inspiration for my drawings began in early childhood when I traveled with my family throughout several of the world’s most remote landscapes, which were the subject of my mother’s fine art photography. After my formal training at Skidmore college I now exhibit extensively in galleries and venues throughout the United States and overseas.

In addition to exhibitions, recent projects include a series of drawings that served as the set design for the classic ballet Giselle, which premiered in October 2012 at the Grand Theatre of Geneva, Switzerland. Ten of my drawings were also used in the set design for House of Cards, a Netflix TV series directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey.

In August 2012 I led Chasing the Light, an expedition sailing up the NW coast of Greenland, retracing the 1869 journey of American painter William Bradford and documenting the rapidly changing arctic landscape. Continuing to address climate change in my work, I spent September 2013 in the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, and arguably the most vulnerable to rising sea levels. (Zaria Forman)

Maldives #9 38″x 50″ soft pastel on paper (Zaria Forman) Visit Zaria’s website and follow her on Facebook. Limited edition prints

Maldives #10 45″x 75″ soft pastel on paper (Zaria Forman) Visit Zaria’s website and follow her on Facebook. Limited edition prints

Greenland #68 30″x 44″ soft pastel on paper (Zaria Forman) Visit Zaria’s website and follow her on Facebook. Limited edition prints

Greenland #69 50″x 50″ soft pastel on paper (Zaria Forman) Visit Zaria’s website and follow her on Facebook. Limited edition prints

Maldives #2 41″x 60″ soft pastel on paper (Zaria Forman) Visit Zaria’s website and follow her on Facebook. Limited edition prints

Greenland #63 50″x 75″ soft pastel on paper (Zaria Forman) Visit Zaria’s website and follow her on Facebook. Limited edition prints

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Bizarre Stereographic Projection Photos By Randy Scott Slavin

Closing in: This photograph of Times Square, New York, can give the viewer a strange sense of vertigo. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features)

In stereographic projections, several panoramic images are projected onto a flat, square or rectangular image.

New York-based photographer Randy Scott Slavin uses a computer program to stitch together as many as one hundred photos of the same scene to create the bizarre images.  

Mr. Slavin is inspired by artist M. C. Escher who was famous for his optical illusions.

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Randy uses computer software to stitch together 100 photos to make the ‘stereographic projection’. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features

Randy uses computer software to stitch together 100 photos to make the ‘stereographic projection’. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features

Falling down the rabbit hole: Leafy Central Park in New York City is transformed into a wormhole. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features)

Does this make you dizzy? A boardwalk in Brooklyn, New York, is transformed beyond recognition. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features)

The sky and trees are reflected in a lake in Central Park, New York City. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features)

The waves appear to be crashing onto the beach in ‘Tsunami’, shot in Puerto Rico. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features)

Closing in: This photograph of Times Square, New York, can give the viewer a strange sense of vertigo. (Randy Scott Slavin/Rex Features)

Charming Colourful Portraits From Junk By Jane Perkins

Queen Elizabeth II: The Exeter-based artist also transforms famous works of art – such as Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ – into colourful masterpieces. (Photo by Jane Perkins/Caters News)

Jane Perkins, from Exeter got an idea to create colourful paintings from junks in 2006 after she wrote a thesis about recycling materials to use them for art. 

The artist used broken jewellery, buttons and toy parts that she bought from second-hand shops and recycling centres to create her ‘junk art’ paintings.

Later she started to create colourful portraits of famous people like Queen Elizabeth II, Albert Einstein, Barack Obama and Winston Churchill.

I really love the idea of junk art because we can create beautiful items and save the earth from rubbish and junk at the same time.

I think that junk art artists are very creative people.

(Please click for From Metal Scraps to Beautiful Animals By Edouard Martinet and Toys From Thrown Flip-Flop).

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Winston Churchill: Jane uses coloured beads to create her unusual artwork. (Photo by Jane Perkins/Caters News)

Albert Einstein: To capture the scientist’s wild mane Jane used plastic toys and dice. (Photo by Jane Perkins/Caters News)

Nelson Mandela: If you look closely you can spot plastic toy spiders and dinosaurs that form his colourful shirt. (Photo by Jane Perkins/Caters News)

Duchess of Cambridge: Kate Middleton’s wedding day is reimagined using marbles and beads found in junk shops. (Photo by Jane Perkins/Caters News)

Barack Obama: Jane scours second hand shops and recycling centres to find the material to make her unusual portraits. (Photo by Jane Perkins/Caters News)