Tag: sculptor
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Japanese Artist Handcrafts Amazing Hair Ornaments That Look Like Delicate Flowers
The Japanese artist Sakae creates hair clips in colorful flower shapes using liquid resin and thread. Sakae calls her craft “dip flower,” which involves sculpting the metallic wire into floral shapes and dipping them into the liquid plastic. Once the individual petals, leaves, and buds are dry, the artist then combines them to create glassy…
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Ceramics Master Creates Dream Worlds Imagined in Contorted Clay Portraits
Master ceramicist Johnson Tsang (previously) continues to create spectacularly emotive ceramic sculptures of the human face. The Hong Kong-based artist’s latest series, Lucid Dream II, features surreal contortions that squish, wring, melt, and stretch. Titles like “Remembrance,” “Extrication,” and “Unveiled” suggest an exploration of the liminal space between the conscious and subconscious, in addition to…
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Amazing Luminous Glass “Jellyfish” Sculptures Drip with Sinuous Tentacles
We’re in love with everything when it comes to artist Daniela Forti. She lives and works in Chianti, Tuscany where she produces these fantastic artworks of dripped glass. She refers to the pieces as “Jellyfish” because of their undulating tentacles that are formed by hand through a melted glass fusion process. Each piece appears to…
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These Giant Urban Flowers Bloom When Pedestrians Walk Under Them
HQ Architects have designed a set of giant flowers that bloom and react to pedestrians and transportation. Located in Vallero Square in the heart of Jerusalem in Israel, the flowers have been installed as part of the municipality’s effort to improve the urban space. The four giant flowers, that are 30 feet tall, have been…
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Huge Lion Carved From A Single Tree Trunk Took 20 People 3 Years to Complete
Sculptor Dengding Rui Yao has carved this incredible wooden lion from a single tree trunk. The artist led a team of 20 assistants on a three-year journey to complete the sculpture, which was made in Myanmar and was transported to its permanent home at the Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, China. According to Woodworking…
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Artist Hand-Cuts An Intricate Octopus From A Single Piece of Paper
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Veteran kirie artist Masayo Fukuda has been practicing the art form for 25 years and recently revealed what she says is her greatest masterpiece of 2018. Kirie (切り絵, literally ‘cut picture’) is the Japanese art of paper-cutting. Variations of kirie can be found in cultures around the world but the Japanese version is said to be derived from religious ceremonies and…
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Artist Turns Japanese Product Packaging Into Art, And The Results Are Amazing
Haruki is a Japanese artist that goes by the Twitter name @02ESyRaez4VhR2l and recently went completely viral when he posted images of the Japanese snack boxes he recently transformed into realistic figures! His artwork has a name in Japanese called “Kiries” or “Kirigami” – the art of paper-cutting. Kirie is more associated with traditional Japanese…
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Sculptor Fills The Forest with Life-Size Sculptures Made from Woven Rods of Willow
It’s not often that you walk through a forest and encounter a life-size statue of a woman shooting a bow and arrow. But that’s exactly what British sculptor Anna and the Willow has crafted. She’s filling the U.K. forests with statues made of willow branches by combining sculpture and basket weaving. The sculptor says she…
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Lego Lovers Post ‘Illegal’ Lego Building Techniques And They Are Actually Genius
There are online communities for almost everything these days, but did you know that there was a community called ‘adult fans of lego’ or AFOL, and it is filled with men and women who haven’t let their enthusiasm for the building game die? While these enthusiasts respect the activity, some have gone off-map to create…
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Ceramist Anna Whitehouse Created 100 Unique Clay Vessels in 100 Days
Anna Whitehouse is a ceramic artist based in United Kingdom who set a goal on January 1, 2018 to create a new bottle each day for 100 days. By limiting herself to a single form, Whitehouse was able to stretch her creativity to formulate new designs previously unexplored in her practice. Each white ceramic bottle was…