Benjamin Kyle has no or very little memory of his life prior to Aug 31 st, 2004 when he was found around dumpsters behind a Burger King joint.

64 year old Benjamin Kyle suffers from something known as dissociative amnesia. He was found with injuries on this head, almost blind with no idea of how he got there and without any identification papers. Therefore, the authorities couldn't give him a social security number, due to which he couldn't get a job or register to a homeless shelter.

It truly is a uniquely sad story of a man who has no idea where more than half of his life went, and to make matters worth, his future seems to be as blurred as his past. And this where art came into the picture.

Chinese street artist Chen Yingjie aka 'Hua Tunan' has an amazing talent of creating intricate portraits from utter chaos. Twisted Swifter likes to put it as 'organized confusion at its finest'.

Tunan is a classical Chinese painter and illustrator, and when it comes to street art, he has a style of his own. He beautifully brings together the style of graffiti and traditional Chinese style of painting.

Needless to say that creating portraits from the method of splattering paint can be quite a task and making it look so surreal and expressive can only come from genuine talent.

Have a look at some of his amazing work:

When it comes to creating portraits of famous people, a lot of artists tend to take an unconventional (and some times bizarre) approach. David Palmer for example, created bullet portraits as a tribute to famous personalities. Daniel Edlen on the other hand, pays his tribute to musicians by creating their portraits on vinyl records.

Today we would like to share a little humorous approach by Dito von Tease who has taken our childhood joy of "finger puppetry" to a whole new level; he likes to call it 'Ditology'. ('Dito' is Italian for 'finger')

He has beautifully created portraits of well known personalities and fictional characters on human fingers. Of course, the images have been digitally manipulated and Tease has done a wonderful job in detailing these portraits and bringing a smile to our face. :)

Here are some of my favorites:

Creating art with musicians as subject is quite common, but what's uncommon is the way an idea is executed using unique materials. There have been portraits created in vinyl records and as well from recycled cassette tapes.

This time, it's CDs that have been used to create portraits of musicians like Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, Jimmy Hendrix, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and James Brown.

The portraits are created using original CDs of these musicians greatest hits. Have a look:

Creating art out of unique materials reflects on an artists' creativity. Mark Khaisman is one such artist who creates portraits using translucent brown tape, and likes to work on subjects from art history, old movies and 20th century propaganda art.

The dramatic visuals in his work comes from backlit Plexiglas panels that are placed behind layers of tape work.

Khaisman studied art and architecture in Moscow Russia, and is currently living and working in Philadelphia, USA.


Check out his amazing work of art in the images below:

Cristina Otero is a 16 year old, extremely creative photographer from Spain who has created her very tasty self-portrait series called: Tutti Frutty.

Ever since she understood the wonders of Photoshop, she very smartly combined it with her creative and unique make-up skills. She has been sharing her art work on Deviant Art for quite a while now and has managed to gather quite an impressive following.

It is refreshing to see young artists not only creating wonderful artwork but also opening up to the their fans, rather than pretentiously hiding in solitude. Not only is she very active on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, she also likes to interact with her fans through ask.fm, where she answers questions and video chats.

Check out her vibrant artwork below:

Couple of months back we'd featured a Mohammad Ali's portrait that was created using 1300 boxing speed bags. Today we'd like to share another creative homage to a sportsperson: ex-NBA superstar, Yao Ming.

Hong Yi, a very creative artist, quite fascinatingly used a basketball and color red to create Yao Ming's portrait.

After releasing a video of her working on this portrait, Hong experienced an overwhelming social media experience, here what she has to say:

"Next thing I knew, my views shot up from 12k to 50k in a matter of a few hours, and the video was featured on the Huffington Post and Yahoo and NBC! I couldn't wrap my head around what was gong on before my eyes. The next crazy thing: Good Morning America and ABC news contacted me to request permission to show the video on their channels! I'm totally blown away by the power of social media." Check out the video below:

Replace Face is a personalized portraits series where the artist has replaced portraits of Russian Generals with celebrities, family and his friends.

Way back, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, an artist named George Dawe, painted 329 portraits of Russian Generals active during that period. In this series, the artist has used the magic of photoshop and has managed to achieve a lot of appreciation.

I know what you thinking...copyright violation! Right?

Here's what the artist has to say about it: