The art of a tasty lunch! Father brightens up his sons' sandwich bags by drawing a cartoon every morning before school for five years

David Laferriere, from Attleboro, Massachusetts, has been doodling on the plastic lunch bags with a Sharpie marker since 2008 - before taking a quick snap of his handiwork and posting it to his Flickr account

'He'll go down in history as a great artist': George W. Bush's painting teacher talks about his prowess - and penchant for painting dogs

Former President George W. Bush took a month-long painting course

World famous 'invisible' artist reveals how he melts into his surroundings in amazing time-lapse video

Liu Bolin, the Chinese artist who has become world famous for appearing invisible in his art, has demonstrated in a time-lapse video how he melts into the scenery around him using a painstaking technique that can take up to four days

French villagers help government raise €4million to buy back famous Courbet painting 'The Oak of Flagey'

Gustave Courbet's painting 'Le chene de Flavey'

'The Oak of Flagey', unveiled at the Courbet Museum today, depicts a large oak tree that once stood in the village of Flagey in eastern France.

Let's hope they don't topple! Artist insists new boulder sculpture is perfectly safe (although it looks anything but!)

Scary: The large-scale boulder sculpture, called 'Rock on Top of Another Rock', was unveiled at the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park today

The large-scale boulder sculpture, called 'Rock on Top of Another Rock', was unveiled at the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park today.

The $300,000 cottage that came complete with thousands of paintings… worth $30MILLION

Discovery: Thomas Schultz, pictured, surrounded by paintings by Arthur Pinajian, an unknown artist whose house was filled with thousands of artworks when Mr Schultz bought it in 2007

Two men bought a bungalow on Long Island intending to sell it on for a $100,000 profit, but found more than 3,000 paintings and drawings by Armenian-American artist Arthur Pinajian.

Royal treasures big and small: Tiny portrait of mystery 17th century woman among historic valuables to go on display as part of new exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum

Tiny treasure: This image shows the medallion Unknown Woman In A Masque Costume, which features in the new exhibition, viewed through a magnifying glass

Unknown Woman In A Masque Costume is among the exhibits featured in the London museum's new Treasures of the Royal Courts exhibition.

Depp and DiCaprio buy his art, Lindsay Lohan crashed his car and Hollywood beauties want him to paint them - naked: The wild world of Domingo Zapata

'I guess I am a very lucky man. People like me, they like what I do,' said Domingo Zapata

He is the celebrity artist du jour. His work sells for six-figure sums and he currently has a waiting list of around 30 commissions.

Photographer captures a decade-long adventure spent travelling across America on freight trains

The photographer, Mike Brodie, now 27, spent 10 years jumping freight trains to compile his images, which he has put in a new book, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity

The series of stunning images were captured by Mike Brodie, 27, who has compiled the pictures for a new book which shows the fascinating sub-culture still alive nearly 100 years after it came to prominence during the Great Depression.

San Francisco Bay Bridge is turned into magnificent art installation using thousands of LEDS controlled by a single laptop computer

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New York artist Leo Villareal, 46, flipped the switch on 'The Bay Lights' with a click of his laptop computer to his latest and biggest illuminating backdrop that's said to have a life and personality of its own.

Stunning photos show cold weather enthusiasts creating patchwork quilt design in snow covered field

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Incredible aerial photographs show the designs envisioned by landscape artist Sonja Hinrichsen - who mobilizes snow-oriented communities to create a patchwork quilt designs in the snow. In February, she organized a communal art project for the town of Saratoga, Wyoming to participate in creating one such masterpiece.

Not your average art show: Models become the canvas at annual bodypainting contest

Body of work: Model Klara McDonnell's bodypaint caught the attention of a passing skateboarder at Temple Bar

Models coated top to toe in paint - and little else - drew a crowd at the second annual Irish Bodypainting Competition in Dublin.

'Stolen' Banksy mural withdrawn from sale at U.S. auction house following storm of protest as mysterious new graffiti appears in its place

Street art: This new mural, centre, appeared today in the space left after the Banksy work was taken.

The piece, called 'Slave Labour' mysteriously disappeared from the side of a Poundland shop in Wood Green last week.