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In 2008, the Annual Sand Sculpture Festival was held on a Portuguese beach. It was open to the public in Pera on May 22. It is said to be that there is a total of 60 huge sculptures made by professional and amateur artists from around the globe. Last year the theme was 'Hollywood' this included superhero, action, scifi and non-fictional characters from all sorts of movies. The artists used more then 35,000 tons of sand to create these wonderful works of art.

Banksy is an amazing street artist. He has drawn and painted numerous works of art appearing for the public to find in the morning. Banksy is a master mind of street art, he carries out works at night and paints pictures sometimes as big a building wall.

Double yellow flower

This is a excellent collection of food art I found on the net. Very creative and inspiring, some of the detail here is fantastic. My favourite one is probably the Knife biting bread and The finger eating apple.

Bread shoe

Great ad produced by the agency Wieden+Kennedy London for the new Nokia 6220 handset. The advert depicts a big map drawn by the public helped by the Nokia phone application "Maps". Do you think they actually did a drawing that big?

I've been browsing the web looking for street art lately to drive inspiration. Here is a nice collection of graffiti street art. The optical illusions set is very nice.

Speed sketching is known as a time-lapse video featuring the construction of a drawing by an artist taking you behind the scenes of an illustration. It is primarily a non-digital art form whereby the sketch is hand-drawn on paper and rendered using a sequence of photographic images.

Here is a collection of some fantastic video sketches.

Speed Painting is known as a time-lapse video featuring the construction of an image by an artist taking you behind the scenes of an illustration. It is primarily a digital art form whereby the image is hand-drawn and rendered using a tablet and graphics editor such as Photoshop or Painter. Artists may use their imagination or take direct inspiration from a live scene or recreate an image depicted in a photograph. Whilst the artist works on the illustration, their actions on the computer screen are automatically captured and compiled into a real-time video. This recording is then accelerated, thus giving the term Speed Painting.

Here is a collection of incredible speed paintings showing you the process behind some of the most breath taking paintings on the web.

I started in the design field in 1996, right after completing a computer animation course at a local college. I thought, as a freelance animator, I'd be in high demand. But, I didn't really do any local market research so I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I found myself having to pick up new skills such as web design, HTML because those were the types of jobs that were plentiful at the time. I freelanced (went broke) for a year and then found a full-time job as an HTML programmer for an online publishing company.

Well, it all started when I became a news hound for the now defunct Llamanet gaming network around 5 years ago. The news scripts were rather dependant on HTML tags, so I spent a little while learning them. In time this progressed onto little banners for the network which, of course, required Photoshop and its been on my system ever since! When the people from Llamanet reformed to create GibWorld I helped them make a few of their web interfaces with my fledgling design skills. Admittedly my work was very basic back then, but I suppose it worked for kind of site we were running. Looking back, I'm very happy with where I am now, but it kinda makes me feel guilty I didn't spent even more time over the years designing instead of playing games.

My nick is Art DJ. First I want to do a showplace for my works and I decided to do a web site because people can see my works. I found a name 4 myself Art DJ. Because I use a simple photo and it became really different path with my skills so it became my vision. That’s the reason my nick is Art DJ I change photos so I made an Art then I change photos like DJ's did change songs.