Artist Cristóbal Schmal was born in northern Chile and grew up far from the hostile political environment in his country at the time. His parents chose to live close to the Peruvian border in hopes of a better future. He later moved to Valparaíso where he studied graphic design,...
If you ever find yourself riding a taxi in Mumbai, the second-most populous city in India, don't forget to look up. You'll be pleasantly surprised by all sorts of colorful ceilings that will make you ride just a bit more enjoyable. Mumbai is home to more than 58,000 metered...
Artur Bordalo is a 32-year-old gifted Portuguese artist and the creator of a series of artworks made from trash. Big Trash Animals is created from waste that was dumped in the area and represents both the beauty of nature and the waste materials that threaten it. https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Lul5eni6b/ “I belong to a...
Large roasted turkey is a centerpiece of each Thanksgiving meal, but what if it came in a cake form? One woman tried to answer this question and her followers lost their mind after seeing the final result. Sarah Hardy, the mastermind behind the Instagram account The Edible Museum, came up...
Is there anything the Euphoria star can't do? As soon as we saw the notification for Allure's video, "Zendaya Tries 9 Things She's Never Done Before" we jumped straight to our Youtube page. The star showed up to the set looking like she stepped straight off the runway, her...
Barcelona-based illustrator Nadia Hafid sees drawing as a powerful tool for telling stories, translating complex ideas and narrative concepts into bite-size images. Her illustrations are very much comics-inspired, treating her artistic medium as a way to communicate her thoughts. But it was only in 2016 when she developed her...
Portland-based illustrator Camille Shu has been doing art her whole life, be it murals, commercial and editorial work or paintings. In addition, she has also been a florist, as well as working part-time on a farm. So it makes sense that her illustrations combine her love for nature, flowers,...
Illustrator and graphic designer, known by her moniker Yogatella, admits she's hungry for colors. Judging by her Instagram page, this much is clear. Her digital illustrations have a vivacity to them that speaks volumes; her art seems to jump right off the screen. Talking about her overall aesthetic with Ballpitmag,...
Agnieszka Nienartowicz is a talented Poland-born artist who combines classical and modern art in a really unique way. Nienartowicz paints portraits of women in which she then incorporates classical artworks. There are several different ways in which Nienartowicz places the works of Caravaggio, Guido Reni Hokusai, and Sandro Botticelli into her paintings but...
Hanny Newton had always loved making things with her hands. In her teens, this mainly took the form of baking, but later on, she found her true calling in embroidery. "One day, I showed my stitching to my friend Kathleen who had studied art in London," recalled Newton in...