The artist explores a new medium. The results don’t look like your average computer art samples.

A Swedish artist’s photomontage gallery.

Thai sculptor Kittiwat Unarrom uses bread dough as a medium, producing realistic torsos, heads and other body parts. Via CoolHunting.

But not quite in the way you might think.

Are they photographs or paintings? Perhaps a hybrid? Or maybe it’s all an illusion.

A more contemporary view of the heroine and her adventures.

Using photographs, Callaghan blends mundane objects such as utility boxes into their environment.

Artist James Cauty exhibits works depicting the beloved cartoon characters killing, chopping, and otherwise doing terrible things to each other. Apparently, kids who’ve seen it absolutely love it.

Using the stuff of daily life - drinking straws, styrofoam cups, paper plates, fishing line - she produces jaw-dropping works that remind the viewer of clouds, land patterns and bacterial growth. Some of her art can be seen here.

One of the gods of modern art.

Can you tell which was done by whom? I scored 100%, but then I’ve had the art training. Hint: It’s in the subtleties.

We were in the city during the holidays, got a glimpse of the spider at the Embarcadero. I’ve written about her before, and am very glad her works can be seen locally.

She is 95 years old.

After enduring the ad, you will meet the artist, who creates her own world of hybrid animal creations.

I didn’t know what else to call it. Here’s the article from The Times, which links to the actual painting, or repainting by Lluis Barba of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights.

There were 6,000 stuffed animals by a self-taught taxidermist, placed in domestic situations such as card playing and taking meals. The auction house sold it off in lots for 336,000 pounds, although an artist, Damien Hirst, offered a million pounds for it all. The owner of the collection is now suing the auction house.

You can see samples of the collection here.

Should any aspiring taxidermist, self-taught or professional, wish to recreate some of these scenes, he is welcome to begin trapping from nature’s bounty of small animals on my property. They are currently in their prime, fat and sleek of coat after a mast year in the oaks. Haste is urged, because they are reproducing at record rates.

Images using polaroids and other photos, influenced by the likes of Corot, Titian, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Picasso.

From his series: ‘Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of America’s Mass Consumption’: Cell Phones.

Some of her work can be seen here.

He sculpted children in various poses - reading, crying, playing - and then he took photographs of the sculptures. When the works became public, the artist was overwhelmed by the praise and attention, and packed the sculptures away for 30 years.

Through the efforts of an art dealer, they were found again in 1993. But Bartlett was primarily a photographer. A dedicated collector set about trying to locate slides of the sculptures, and found them via eBay.

A NY Times article examines possible reasons why Bartlett chose to sculpt such lifelike children, and in the process, compares him to Lewis Carroll, Joseph Cornell and a group of photographers who specialized in setup photography.

Stuffed works you probably don’t want your kids to see. But ones that family members and I appreciate.