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Jennifer Maestre creates stunning sculptures out of pencils. I didn't start making sculptures from pencils until 1999. My nail sculptures grew larger and more complex, but I still couldn't get enough diversity of form to satisfy my vision. My pencil sculptures are created by turning the pencils into beads, and sewing them together using a sculptural beading technique called "peyote stitch". Kraken and Ibentina are two of the most advanced of my sculptures, in terms of making up new ways to use my technique.
Chiharu Shiota's impressive thread installations amaze with their complexity and artistic trace, you will definitely be blown away, enjoy!
Look at this picture riddle and answer the question. An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. Here is one more amazing painting by Oleg Shuplyak. How many people can you see in the picture below? So were you able to solve the riddle? Leave your answers ... Read more
UK artist su blackwell primarily uses old books as her medium to creates fine, intricate sculptures.
How in the world could Phil Hays have been so entirely unknown to me until this past week? Because I have only this week heard his name and seen his work for the very first time. But it turns out Philip Harrison Hays was very well know to a great many people (perhaps including you). Hays' illustrations from various 1956 issues of Cosmopolitan magazine are the only ones I've ever come across... but apparently he did quite a bit of work for magazines in the 50's. Not only did Hays illustrations appear in such magazines as Cosmo, Esquire, Fortune and McCall's, but he did high profile advertising work for American Airlines, Coca-Cola and Columbia Records, among others. Some aspects of Hays' style reminds me very much of Jack Potter's work, and this passage from Phil Hays' obituary in the NY TImes confirms my feelings: "In the mid-1950's Mr. Hays was one of a young band of expressive and interpretative illustrators, including Robert Weaver, Jack Potter, Tom Allen and Robert Andrew Parker, who, rather than paint or draw literal scenes based entirely on an author's prose, interpreted texts with an eye toward expressive license." Phil Hays won many prestigeous awards over the years and was the chairman of the illustration department of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California at the time of his death in 2005. * Today's images can be seen at full size in my Phil Hays Flickr set.
" Early on I discovered a curious thing about carving. Fifty percent of the effort will achieve ninety percent of the effect. Another discovery followed on quickly. If you allow yourself to stop at that ninety percent, then the carving can never succeed, never really succeed. Never raise the h
on tumblr Anatomical paintings combined with illustrations of plants and animals that extend from the muscular and skeletal structure by Italian artist Nunzio Paci. The paintings include written...
Sydney-based artist Catherine Nelson refers to herself as a painter with a camera, in that she doesn’t see the world as a photographer does but instead uses photos as a medium with which she creates these fantastic miniature worlds. Each work is comprised of hundreds of photographs which she digitally stitches together, drawing from an extensive background in visual special effects having worked on such films as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and 300. Of her work Nelson says: When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn’t expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. More
When the going gets tough, the art gets going. That's the beautiful thing about human creativity – it can sprout in any soil. Especially for the late British-French illustrator Edmund Dulac, whose flair for Art Nouveau fantasy not only gave us brilliant literary illustrations, but flights of fancy a
All refracted light and fresh water, this summery scene by the Spanish painter Josep Moncada will definitely keep you feeling cool today. See more of his beautiful work here. (via pinterest)
ELIZABETH SHIPPEN GREEN PAPER DOLL BOOKS #2 1906, watercolor and charcoal 23" x 14 1/2", signed lower left Harper's Monthly, December 1906 'The Mind of a Child' by Edward S. Martin SETTING THE TABLE c. 1900, pen and ink on illustration board 14" x 20", signed lower right THE FIVE LITTLE PIGS watercolor and charcoal […]
Explore Valerie Hadida's 323 photos on Flickr!
Hi Everyone, Some of you probably thought that you weren’t going to hear from me. And you’re right. This isn’t me. Who is it? Not sure, but it can’t be me because I’ve only finished the first day of the tour and I’m already transformed– completely. Seriously, I could come home right now, completely sated […]
In four decades as a performance artist, Marina Abramović has had a stranger point a loaded gun at her head, sat in silence for 700 hours and set herself on fire. Now, as she prepares for a new show in which she enacts her own funeral, the 63-year-old reveals why "Freud would have had a field day" with her. By Sean O'Hagan
Cristina Troufa is a painter based in Porto, Portugal. She was born in Oporto, Portugal and earned a BFA and and MFA in Fine Art from the University of Fine Arts of Porto. Cristina explains her work by saying, “The theme of my work is about my life, about myself and my beliefs.”
Manchmal warte ich auf deine Antwort, deine Worte... ich habe nicht gelernt, dass sie niemals kommen, oder dass sie mir...
benjamin shine has realized a five piece installation using his signature material, tulle, in the windows of new york's bergdorf goodman department store.
Part painting, part sculpture. 100% amazing.
This made me smile hugely. Piñata Anatomy by Minneapolis-based Carmichael Lynch of Carmichael Collective. More
