A collection of impressive works of art created using duct, electrical, packing and masking tape.

Street Art With Masking Tape By Buff Diss: Melbourne based artist Buff Diss uses masking tape to create this awesome street art.

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape Installations by Rebecca Ward: These installations are site-specific works that are dependent upon the space they occupy. Utilizing the existing lines, and angles, each piece created is informed by the individual site and its unique linear placement. These installations are inherently architectural. And here is the rest of the interesting work – gallery.

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium (image credit: behance)

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape Sculptures by Mark Jenkins: These street installations are created using box sealing tape by American artist Mark Jenkins. Most widely known for the street installations, his work has been featured in various publications.

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium (image credit: simonswork)

Packing Tape Art: This is the artwork of Mark Khaisman, artist based in Philadelphia who creates artwork from brown packing tape. ‘I work on the light easel, applying translucent brown packing tape on clear Plexiglas panels, the layers built up to create degrees of opacity.’

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

1700 Squirrels: This is a drawing of 1700 squirrels created by one person working from 8am to 10pm for fourteen days in a row. It was done using ¼ inch flatback tape and he tried to draw each of these squirrels in their own unique poses.

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Wall Art Made With Electrical Tape: ‘Woody Allen black electrical tape portrait’.

Tape as Art Medium

Duct Tape Art: Artist Joe Girandola created these amazing duct tape art by keeping minute details in mind. Though Joe is classically trained as a stone carver in Italy, but he has veered away from the media, concentrating on three-dimensional drawings and paintings using a variety of materials. And one of his medium of choice is Duct Tape. His drawings using various colors of tape reflects ingenuity and creativity.

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

Tape as Art Medium

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2. Take a field trip to an art museum, an art gallery, or even an artist’s studio. Remember that visual art includes pottery, sculpting, drawing, architecture, and printmaking. Don’t limit yourself to paintings. Look in your yellow pages to see what options you have locally.

Take a field trip

3. Choose a favorite children’s book illustrator. Look through as many of his books as possible. Have your child talk about what makes his style unique. (It may be helpful to compare or contrast his work with another illustrator). Then let your child copy his style as he illustrates his own story.

4. Find art that matches the period of history you’re studying. Look for paintings that reflect the historical events in your curriculum, for example art of the American Revolution.

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5. Stop and appreciate art when you see it no matter where you are. Is there a unique sculpture at the community center? Is there a reproduction of a famous painting hanging in the mall? Take time to pause and discuss it with your children. For discussion starters, try this PDF.

Ivan Shishman is a church artist. Besides he is a father of seven and drinks sometimes.

This time he has got an order from Crimean church to make an artwork on the inside surface of its domes.

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Puns and plays on words aside (or perhaps inside), artist Leandro Elrich has quite an elegant way of shattering our expectations (so to speak) in works like this one, where the properties of one material are experimentally applied to a familiar object made from another substance. The last thing a viewer expects is for an almost boringly ordinary door to crack and crumble like a sheet of glass.

Knobs away! What appears to be a large door knob rests on the floor in front of the broken shards (still sitting loosely in their frame). Other works by Elrich likewise take typical settings, household furnishings and home fixtures like windows, ladders and curtains and add twists that turn these common situations and objects into visually and conceptually challenging works of art.

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Our favorite band, Tool, is on a fourteen city tour and their backdrop for these shows is an unusual work of art by Alex Grey, entitled “Original Face.” Grey’s painting shows fountains of neon spirit illuminating the void, and life as a ripple in the stream of Eternal Light. Now this artwork can be yours by purchasing a limited edition canvas print, size 12 x 42 inches, stretched and ready for hanging. Hand signed and numbered in an edition of 250, one can be yours for $300, LIMITED TIME ONLY. Prices of prints increase as more are sold.

Original Face - Print on Canvas

Would surely look mighty fine in my hallway. If you love Alex’s work, but the price on this limited edition print is beyond you, take a look around the CoSM store because there’s plenty of other cool artwork available. (h/t to Blair at Toolband.com) Source: dailygrail.com

Steve Bierley’s first and intimate foray into an artist’s labyrinthine world has been playfully rendered. The work is like a series of nine large illuminated manuscripts, painted boldly from a kinky palate. There is an enjoyable circularity about the journey, from review, to painting, to review. It is not often that a critic is taken so literally. By reiterating the review the sentiment is amplified, but split up into panels the meaning is partially obscured. But, I know as well as you do that it is not always good to fly your flag directly from the mast. Here form has lifted a painterly finger to function.

Central to my experience of Bob and Roberta Smith is some unfettered innocence in both approach and delivery. The work in all its shambolic reverie smacks of the perpetual thrill of the chase, of the professional amateur. Unlike in sport, it is hard to tell who the winners and losers are in art. Bierley’s deft writing is shaded in angst and perturbance, yet this exhibition summons up optimism. If we could siphon this off we would be high on the fumes of hope, or accountability. Now that would be truly dangerous.

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On Thursday July 16th, Melbourne central was overtaken by urban stylers to celebrate the street fashion and artwork of the iconic Melbourne shopping centre. Urban style has always had a place in the Melbourne fashion scene, however like any city, urban and street brands are often not given the recognition they deserve. Two Blocks party was invented to combat this, creating heightened awareness of street brands and stores such as 5cm, General Pants, Diesel and new Jeanswear store THAT. Brands such as Cheap Monday, Nobody, Superfine and Bassike were browsed in the shops that kept their doors open for party goers to investigate while sipping Tiger Beer or Skyy Vodkas. The attendees of the party combined media, retailers and fashionistas all with their own street edge. Black was the staple colour of the event, while military jackets (reminiscent of Michael Jackson?) shorts teamed with stockings and skinny jeans were the common outfits of both the guys and girls at the event.

An arTwork by GhostControl

Street artist GhostPatrol was creating artwork throughout the party, using felt tip markers to create a street graffiti piece. The live creativity process highlighted the intricacy and detail involved in street art which should not be underestimated purely due to it being labelled as “street.” DJ Peril spun RnB beats which are not commonly featured in Melbourne’s mainstream music scene, creating a novel urban atmosphere.

Overall, Two Blocks is part of an initiative to create awareness of Melbourne’s urban fashion, music and art scene. Street style, music and artwork have always been regarded as alternative however in a fashionable and modern progressive city like Melbourne, urban styling is highly regarded and sought-after. Two Blocks and the people who attended are lovers of all that is modern and street chic, a scene and aesthetic that will hopefully become even more recognised in the next few years.

Rachel Q. Landers earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, with a concentration in Scientific Illustration from the University of Georgia in 2006. She currently lives in Gainesville, Georgia.

Rachel’s artwork, by moving away from realism, acknowledges that viewers bring a lexicon of experience and concurrent emotion to a painting. She would like her artwork to encourage discourse – facilitating storytelling and a sense of community. This holds a significant place in her art and philosophy.

Tying together aspects of life and nature with spirituality, Rachel creates mystery, in essence – possibilities. When creating her art, she feels it is challenging as well as freeing to accept change and adapt to what emerges. By layering perhaps unusual combinations of shapes and colors which contrast and resolve, her work represents life with its undulating tensions– and sometimes surprising beauty. She wishes to broaden her outlook visually as well as in day to day interactions. It is an optimistic process.

The following one is by graffiti artist “Sr. X” who has been hitting up the streets of Spain with all sorts of stencil based FIRE. (source)

The following one seems kind of scary but it obviously was meant as a piece of art:

Mirror manhole by Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor (Source):

Manhole cover designs in Japan:

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The manhole monument: this bronze, situated near the Opera House, Bratislava, shows a man looking out of a manhole.

“Dirty mouth?”

“Hey City That Never Sleeps. Wake up. Folgers”

This one was placed in the Chicago streets. Especially the sewers that steamed:

BMW Mini: Road Marking:

As part of the water conservation campaign for Dublin City, this vinyl sticker was placed over an actual manhole. It appeared as if someone had sealed the drain with a giant sink plug. The tagline highlights the message: “Water is precious. Let’s conserve it.” (Agency : Publicis QMP, Dublin)

“Don’t let child abuse remain unseen“. (Milwaukee, USA)

Thousands are held prisoners for their beliefs in places worse than this. Write until you free them all. Amnesty International.

How many more lives will cost $1.25? Please call 010-62357575 to report manhole cover theft so we can put an end to this.

Just plain funny: