Tag: craft
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Japanese Artist Turns Found Stones Into Animals You Can Hold in the Palm of Your Hand
To me, stones are not simple materials or canvases for painting pictures on. Among all those numerous stones on a river bank, one stone, looking like an animal, catches my eye. When I find a stone, I feel that stone has found me too. Stones have their own intentions, and I consider my encounters with…
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IKEA Releases DIY Instructions to Create Your Own Amazing Globe-Shaped Greenhouse
If you’ve ever wanted to kill everything around you while building something from IKEA, imagine trying to build this awesome garden! The Denmark-based company Space10, which is supported by IKEA, has released instructions on how to build The Growroom, an incredible wooden spherical garden for people living in urban spaces. The Growroom was created to…
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Artist Uses Tightly Rolled Newspapers to Create Incredibly Detailed Animal Sculptures
Remember the paper creations you used to make as a kid? They were probably limited to paper planes and some simple origami. Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama has taken paper art to a whole other level by creating textured sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper. The compact application of…
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Russian Embroidery Artist Creates Billowing Clouds and Rainbow-Hued Sunsets
Vera Shimunia is a Russian embroidery artist who began her landscape embroidery in 2015. Vera’s work includes richly-hued mountainscapes, sunrises, and skies are crafted on palm-sized embroidery hoops using a variety of textured threads. Although embroidery is considered an old craft, Vera has breathed new life into the art form and has developed a huge following by…
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Miniature Paper Cut Artist Creates 365 Days of Egrets, Sparrows, Pelicans and Other Birds
If you’re a fan on all things miniature, then you should be following India-based cut paper artists Nayan Shrimali and Vaishali Chudasama. They have set out to construct 365 miniature bird species by the end of 2018. To form each work, the pair begins by cutting feathers, beaks, and talons from layers of paper and then using…
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Artist Creates Hand-Sewn Lace Figures Using Real Pieces of Found Wood
Artist Agnes Herczeg uses lace to create figural works of female forms, capturing figures in moments of contemplation or work. In one piece the subject stands at a loom, appearing to weave herself from the included fibers. All of Herczeg’s works uses all natural materials, incorporating small pieces of wood or other found materials to…
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Artist Stretches Colorful Strands of Thread to Produce Awe-Inspiring Rainbows Indoors
Gabriel Dawe’s indoor rainbows almost defy understanding. It is a visual representation of the full spectrum of natural light, a harnessing of a prismatic view of sunshine that has been confined within the four walls of a gallery space. Up close, the artist’s tricks are revealed. The artwork is made of ordinary embroidery thread that…
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Japanese Artist Uses Complex Cuts To Form Detailed Paper Sea Creatures, Flowers, and Reptiles
One of the most interesting art forms we’ve seen lately has been perfected by Japanese cut paper artist Riki Fukuda who creates mind-bogglingly detailed designs using simple tools: a cutting mat, blade, and paper. She regularly shares her in-progress and finished works on Twitter, including the pencil sketches that she cuts into for her final…
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Artist Creates Hyper Realistic Cats Hand Felted Cats Out Of Wool
Needle felting has grown in popularity in leaps and bounds in recent years, with many textile artists using wool create amazing sculpted creations. Japanese artist Wakuneco has taken the craft to another level, by creating hyper-realistic hand-felted cat faces. The artist uses wool of various different colors and creates 3D portraits of cats using needle…
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Needle Felt Artist Brings Old Brushes Back To Life In A Spectacular Way
Simon Brown – aka The Gentleman Felter – is a needle felt artist from a small village on the Northumbrian coast in the UK surrounded by castles, cats and copious amounts of tea. He finds old, beaten up, heavily used brushes that nobody would look twice at and then brings them back to life with…