Category: Carving
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Halloween Pumpkin Carving Timelapse titled “Pumpkin Lobotomy” by Chris Soria!
Happy Halloween everyone! To celebrate this wonderful day, check out the amaze-balls pumpkin carving timelapse titled “Pumpkin Lobotomy” by Brooklyn artist and carver Chris Soria. Apparently it took over 15 hrs to carve! The video is by Joe Vaughn. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your walls, check…
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Amazing Pumpkin Arrangements at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York!
Update: be sure to also check out the Amazing Pumpkin Carvings from Villafane Studios HERE! Held every year in New York, the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze is a 25-night-long Halloween event featuring some 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins arranged into dinosaurs, sea monsters, zombies, and other spooky sculptural forms. Via Instagram: Although only associated with Halloween as we know…
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Amazingly Detailed Sculptures Carved from Single Lead Pencils
Hungarian artist Cerkahegyzo creates amazingly detailed miniature sculptures from single lead pencils. He says that it’s a form of relaxation and most importantly, a fun hobby to take his mind off the daily grind as a professional tool-maker in Hungary. Cerkahegyzo says he started carving after coming across the highly detailed sculptures of artist Dalton Ghetti…
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The Amazing Art of Tree Shaping
Tree shaping is the practice of training living trees and woody plants into artistic shapes by carefully orchestrating how the tree and the branches grow. Techniques such as grafting, bending, creasing, framing, weaving, twisting, braiding, pruning and ring barking are employed to archive the unnatural shapes. According to Wikipedia, tree shaping is a form of…
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AMAZING Pumpkin Carvings From the Guys at Villafane Studios
Update: be sure to also check out the amazing Pumpkin Arrangements at the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze in New York HERE! With Halloween fast approaching, we thought we’d look into pumpkin carving. We didn’t have to look too far before we discovered Ray and the team at Villafane Studios. Wow. These guys know how to carve a…
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Melting Ceramics by Livia Marin
When dropping a ceramic plate or cup we’ve all braced for the familiar sound of impact as the object explodes into a multitude of sharp fragments on the kitchen floor. Artist Livia Marin imagines a wholly different demise for ceramic bowls, cups and tea pots in this series of work titled Nomad Patterns. Inexplicably, each piece seems to…
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Birds made from typewriter parts
Artist Jeremy Mayer just completed this beautiful set of swallows using assembled typewriter parts. The birds required Mayer to find multiple sets of identical parts adding a significant amount of time to sourcing materials, but as a happy accident the artist also discovered his design allowed for the wings to partially retract. If you’re unfamiliar with Mayer’s work…