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Is this a real tornado?

Feb 04, 2010 // Published in Best of 2010, Crafts, Landscape, Using Daily Objects to Create Art
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Matthew Albanese is known for constructing meticulously detailed small-scale models using diverse materials and objects to create landscapes. For example, the tornado scene above was made from steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss. Notes by the artist: Every aspect from the construction to the lighting of the final model is painstakingly pre-planned using methods which force ...

Plastic Surgery on Porcelain

Dec 24, 2009 // Published in Crafts, Porcelain
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A unique art project by Beth Ridsdel. She dissects bone china plates, mugs, and jugs. Notes by the artist: This work was an installation, set up as a lab experiment in progress, complete with scalpels, lab coats, needles and a microscope. Piles of dicarded, cut-up craft objects lay about the desk, some with their innards seeping out, ...

Anthropomorphic Porcelain Art

Dec 17, 2009 // Published in Crafts, Portraits, Sculptures
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Simply amazing porcelain art by Kate MacDowell. Her themes are based on the "union between man and nature is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practices." Notes from the Artist's statement: I hand sculpt each piece out of porcelain, often ...

Extraordinary Papercut Art!

Mar 12, 2009 // Published in 3D, Crafts, Paper Art, Sculptures
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This has got to be one of the best collections of paper cutouts I've seen to-date! WOW! Woo woo! They're all done by hand with an x-acto knife by Elsa Mora (a.k.a Elsita). Other then these cut-outs, she made an interesting music box, Casa del Corazon. And here are some 3D paper sculptures, a must ...

Just use Needle and Thread

Mar 10, 2009 // Published in Crafts, Drawing, Drawing and Sketching, Sewing
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Drawings that are not made from pencil colors... just needle and thread! Artwork by Megan Whitmarsh. Link via Booooom!

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