A talented high school art teacher has produced an enormous, 40-foot (12-meter) patriotic military mural for an Iowa state park as a tribute to the nation’s brave veterans. Dave Schaeffer, 43, of Blue Grass, Iowa, teaches art to ninth through twelfth grades at Davenport West High School in his hometown of Davenport. He was approached by…
Artist Paints 40-foot Patriotic Panorama Honoring Branches of Military, Hopes Grandpa’s ‘Looking Down’
A Russian Graffiti Artist and His Mural Cats in Hong Kong
Vladimir Boldyrev is a Hong Kong-based Russian graffiti-artist. He has painted five cats in different places around Hong Kong. His painting “the Cat in a House,” a large brown and white cat with green eyes nestled snug inside a box, at Tai Mo Shan, has became a popular check-in place for hikers since October. “The Cat…
Couple Renovating Dilapidated Old Building Stumble on 60-Foot Century-Old Murals Hidden Behind the Walls
When Air Force vet Nicholas Timm, 40, bought a dilapidated building in Okanogan, Washington, at the end of last year, he stumbled upon a lost work of art behind the walls. Carrying out demolition work with his crew in January, he was removing plaster from a wall when he glimpsed something unexpected. “A spot caught my…
Optical Illusion Artist Transforms Dingy Soviet-Style Apartment Building Into Giant 3D Bookshelf in Russia
Jan used to be afraid of heights. He recalled his hands shaking as he stood teetering on the side of a 9-story apartment building, painting his illusionistic murals on a grand scale, nervously wielding paint-filled aerosol cans. A wellspring of creative talent, graffiti artist Jan Heinsbroek, from Utrecht, Netherlands, in 2016 transformed that apartment into…
‘Incredibly Rare’ Elizabethan Wall Paintings From 16th Century Found in Pub in England
November 18, 2021
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A Weatherspoons pub surviving from Elizabethan times has yielded a set of remarkable wall paintings from around 1580—when the establishment was bought by Queen Elizabeth I’s Chief Adviser William Cecil, also known as the Earl of Salisbury. The series of six panels, showing significant wear, portray lavishly dressed figures donning the most fashionable couture of…
Missouri Artist Paints Huge Patriotic ‘Tribute Mural’ With Iwo Jima Flag Raising and Eagle
Staged with her paints set up and ready to go to town, Missouri artist Sandra Pemberton climbs the scaffold and with a piece of soapstone starts etching out, freehand on the sheet metal siding, the contours for a patriotic American mural. The 36-year-old painter from Neosho prefers to work without the hindrance of a projector…
Marcus Rashford Mural Graffiti ‘Not Racial’: Police
Police have said they do not think that abusive graffiti on a mural of England footballer Marcus Rashford was of a racial nature. Officers are keeping an open mind over the motive for defacing the artwork in Withington, Manchester, following England’s penalty shootout loss to Italy in Sunday’s Euro 2020 final. No arrests have been…
Artist Paints Huge American Flag for High School Gym so Classmates Can Say Pledge
The son of two U.S. Air Force veterans has made his town proud by painting an American flag mural for his high school—a project that took a whole semester to complete. Eighteen-year-old Hunter Delsite, from the military town of Mountain Home, Idaho, tackled the project with encouragement from his art teacher. The pair noticed that…
Artist Paints the World’s Largest Human Chain Mural Across 5 Continents
A French-Swiss artist is making headlines with his project to paint the largest human chain in the world. After beginning a massive art display in Paris last year, Guillaume Legros, or “Saype,” has left his mark in Andorra, Berlin, Geneva, Istanbul, and beyond. His murals feature gargantuan clasping human hands across massive expanses of lawn,…
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