Artist Kevin Cyr (whose great bike-camper we’ve covered before) has a line of paintings that highlight the weathered looks of delivery trucks and old vans.

Artist James Barnett creates landscape paintings from scenes found in 3D video games.

Marc Trujillo is an urban landscape painter who depicts the big box retail stores, gas stations and fast food chains that fill our modern suburban and urban environment.

Japanese artist Que Houxo creates brilliant live paintings using fluorescent paints illuminated by black lights.

Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw make up Sweatshoppe, a mutimedia performance group who have developed a way to “paint” with video.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Artist/designer Chris Rubino shared a video with us that follows him as he creates four paintings for the new Ace Hotel in New York City.

[Video by Jim Helton]

Thomas Broome is a Swedish artist whose most recent work features large format color paintings comprised of descriptive words.  These typographic illustrations are a surreal reflection on our mind’s constant definition of our surroundings.  The series entitled Modern Mantras was on display at the 556 Hz show at the Galleri Magnus Karlsson.  We wonder if he scribbled on his shoes as a child..
[via Kottke]

Artist Jorge Colombo has created some beautiful digital sketches that look like real paintings. They were all finger-drawn on the iPhone using the Brushes application. On Jorge’s site, you can watch the drawings come to life in animated recordings of the process.
Also be sure to check out all the amazing artwork on the Brushes site.
[via Design Notes]

While selecting the proper profile picture as a stand-in for your online persona might not be the end all and be all of social media decisions, it certainly says a lot about who you are and will be the first thing that most people see. So how to stand out from the crowds with something other than a well snapped photograph showing you on one of your best coiffed days?
Enter Brooklyn artist Matt Held who turned to Facebook when he lacked inspiration for his latest painting project. What began as a single portrait of his wife’s profile picture has grown [...]