“Kiss” stained glass painting, inspired by Gustav Klimt. Beautiful stained Glass Painting by Iris, St. Petersburg based artist

Stained Glass Painting by Iris

Iris is a talented artist from St. Petersburg, Russia. Unfortunately, there is so little information about the master. But I suppose, her beautiful works – Stained Glass Painting tell everything about her – creative, bright, colorful, positive, patient, and, besides, cat loving person. Colored glass has been produced since ancient times. Both the Egyptians and the Romans excelled at the manufacture of small colored glass objects. Painting on glass remains one of the most popular trends in crafting nowadays.
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Snegurochka (the Snow maiden). Oil painted, decorated with natural stones, beads and sequins. Handmade. Beautiful Jewelry boxes by Vesnushka, Russian artist

Jewelry boxes by Vesnushka
Beautiful jewelry box “Snow maiden” – made of two solid Pearl basins of oceanic origin, in the traditional lacquer boxes technique. A delicately painted silver picture, framed in gold ornament, trimmed with natural pearls, rhinestones, and sequins.
Vesnushka (aka Vesnushka-67) is the name of a talented Master-jeweler, painter and designer from a small town of Kovrov of Vladimir region. Snegurochka, or the snow maiden is a folk character of Russian mythology, lovely daughter of King Frost and Fairy Spring. The legend of Snow maiden became an inspiration for Alexander Ostrovsky to create his play Snow maiden. Besides, the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky wrote incidental music for the first performance. And Rimsky-Korsakov used Ostrovsky’s play as the basis for his opera “Snegurochka”.
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Floral motif. Zhostovo trays beautiful folk art

Zhostovo trays beautiful folk art
Old Russian folk handicraft Zhostovo painting comes from a village of Zhostovo in Moscow region. Originally, manufacture of painted metal trays appeared in the middle of the XVIII century in the Urals. There were steel mills of Demidov (Nizhny Tagil, Nevyansk, and Verkhne Neyvinsk). Moscow manufacture of metal trays appeared only in the first half of the XIX century. However, the most beautiful and colorful trays – made in the villages of Moscow province – Zhostovo, Trinity, and Novoseltsevo.
In fact, Zhostovo painting handicraft stylistically related to porcelain and enamel painting techniques, used by factories near Moscow. Also, flower motifs on printed cotton, produced by the Ivanovo factories, and Fedoskino miniature.
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Cosmic cat. Inspired by cats Irina Garmashova, Russian artist Garmashova-Cawton

Inspired by cats Irina Garmashova. Russian artist Irina Garmashova (Garmashova-Cawton) studied at the Art Academy of St. Petersburg, then began a successful professional career. Pictures of the artist has been exhibited in St. Petersburg, Holland, Germany and England. Paintings by Irina are found around the world in private collections. To create the paintings the artist uses oil paints, pastels, pencils and watercolors. Favorite topic for Irina are pets, and, in particular, cats. She has lived in the UK for 9 years.
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Reflection. Painting by Liu Hong Yuan, Chinese mixed media artist. Traditionally, her enormously detailed works contain jewels, embroidery patterns, porcelains and fruit

Painting by Liu Hong Yuan
Born in 1976 in Baoding, Hebei Province, Liu Hong Yuan is a talented Chinese artist. Her beautiful oil paintings received Excellent Award. Noteworthy, she works in classic techniques of European masters, seldom seen in the world today. Liu Hong Yuan’s paintings look as if they are sculptured on the canvas. Chinese artist Liu Hong is surely a rare and unique mixed media master combining tradition, history and contemporary modernist trends. Traditionally, her enormously detailed works contain jewels, embroidery patterns, porcelains and fruit. According to critics, these bizarre and classic painting will always haunt you.
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In January, one mongoose is snowboarding, as his New Year resolution. Maverick Meerkats calendar 2013

Maverick Meerkats calendar 2013
Hilarious pictures of fun-loving meerkats taking up extreme sports are from the calendar of 2013. In January, one mongoose is snowboarding, as his New Year resolution. February – he’s bungee jumping. March sees this mongoose kitted out with crampons scaling a sheer rockface, before strapping into a harness to give gliding a go in April foolhardy. In May two meerkats give the camera a cheeky look as they freefall over a busy city. And animal lovers need not worry, no meerkats were harmed in the making of the pictures.
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Smoking a pipe. 17th century people in surreal portraits of Israeli artist Boris Shapiro

17th century people in portraits of artist Boris Shapiro
Talented artist Boris Shapiro was born in 1968, in Lvov, the Soviet Union. He studied at the school of fine arts in his native city. But in 1991, Boris Shapiro immigrated to Israel and joined the Beer Sheva College of art. After experimenting with different media and styles Boris developed his own naive-like style based on 16-17th century Dutch school, like that of great Dutch master Peter Bruegel. With his beautiful painting he expresses his own humor, irony and simplicity of life. The portraits of 17th century people are whimsical, and the colors are usual Earth tones, symbolizing the down to earthiness of everyday life. Personal exhibitions of Boris Shapiro took place in Panama, Israel, Paris, group exhibitions in Israel, Great Britain, the United States, France, the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Beautiful Steampunk notebooks by Asiya Mahdi, Smolensk based artist

Steampunk notebooks by Asiya Mahdi
Do you enjoy works of H. G. Wells, William Gibson? Did you imagine a whimsical world of Jules Verne and Paul di Filippio? Do you need a travel notebook for travel writing? For you – note pads with aesthetics “Steam Time Steampunk”. Genuine leather, gilding, silvering, aging, codex medieval embroidery. The material Asiya Mahdi uses – Eyelets, rivets, part of the Clockworks, buckle-buttons, mechanisms, and fantasy. She sees no rules and the use of vignettes. Mahdi is a talented designer and artist. Her artworks include Design, carving, embroidery, musical instruments, restoration, and Binding.
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Butterfly. Oil on linen. 2013. Expressive paintings by Italian artist Danilo Martinis

Expressive paintings by Danilo Martinis
Italian artist Danilo Martinis was born in Milan in 1976. According to the artist himself, he started drawing by pencil at the age of 5, and never stopped since. Martinis graduated from the Glasgow School of art and began his career drawing unique products from the original design. He began painting in the late 90’s with a series-style material works made using stones and enamels. In 2005 the artist dedicates himself to the search for a new expressive form of art by creating special shapes with straight and curved lines, using neutrals and particularly intense colors. Passion, creativity and research are basic elements of Danilo Martinis art.
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