Tag: carving
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Chinese Sculptor Spends 4 Years Sculpting World’s Longest Wooden Masterpiece
When you hear the word ‘masterpiece’, you most likely think of a famous painting painted in the 15th or 16th century like the Mona Lisa. So it’s always nice to know that artistic masterpieces are being created even today. Take, for example, Chinese artist Zheng Chunhui’s breathtaking 12.2-meter-long (over 40 ft) wooden carving – it…
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Insects and Animals Made from Repurposed Objects by Edouard Martinet
It’s hard to believe that these perfectly assembled sculptures by French artist Edouard Martinet ever existed in any other form than they appear now. Yet every head, thorax, leg, wing, and eye from these assorted creatures was once part of a car, bicycle, typewriter, or other found objects. Reading through his material lists it becomes clear how…
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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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Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee
For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to…