Out of the Box Magazine

Artists know that their process is as important as the product. In fact, the time they put into their work can directly affect how powerful and impressive their completed piece will be in the end. Here are some time-consuming works of art whose ends justify the means.

Australian  artist CJ  Hendry  has a big passion for fashion and shows it through her massive hyperrealistic  ink drawings  of top name brands including: Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Armani, and Hermes.

Normal outdoor steps get a glorious  makeover  when they're  painted  by street artists all over the world. These lovely staircases are best when you appreciate them from a certain vantage point  - from above they may merely look like colorful splashes of paint - but they've been photographed so that you can appreciate the beauty and depth of each complete "canvas."

French street art duo Vanessa and Stéphane, better known as Urban X Stitch, decorate ordinary chain-link fences across public city streets with bright and colorful cross stitched characters.

Andres Amador is an artist whose canvas is the beaches of San Francisco. To remove the sand creations without avail more resources than a rake, creates enormous ephemeral works.

If everywhere you look there are faces staring back, you’re not alone.  For the past 10 years French artist  Gilbert Legrand  has been finding the hidden characters in everyday objects and revealing them with paint. His whimsical vision sees all sorts of household objects become things they were not: a coat hanger becomes a mouse sporting shoes; a paintbrush transforms into a teen with an attitude (and a wicked hairdo); and the blades of some scissors get amorous.

The Korean artist Yong Ho Ji is known for his work with realistic sculptures. Each piece is created from a wealth of details that turn each of these into works of art. Moreover, a great curiosity of the artist's work is the material used - all the sculptures are made with tire.  The strength of their work are animals and mythological creatures, but he also has sculptures of the human form.  Inspiring, isn't it? 

Iranian  artist and designer  Mehdi Ghadyanloo  is  brightening  up the city of  Tehran  one wall at a time. With the blessing  of the  municipality, Ghadyanloo and his mural-painting company  Blue Sky Painters transform blank, gray walls into amazing large-scale works of  art .

Lorenzo Duran is an artist who uses dry leaves to develop his amazing and detailed work, where he uses a technique based on paper cutting (and of course a lot of patience)

The Alterego can be understood literally as another self, another person of the same person. So the Artist Danny Haas decided to create a series of posters that "reveals"

Jeff Nishinaka is an american artist who creates this incredibly amazing 3D paper sculptures. Bellow you can find the most astonishing examples of Nishinaka artwork.

This extremely cute and original Vespa inpired sculptures are the artwork of the australian artist Patricia Piccini. Patricia art consits in giving her Vespas a