celebrity and historical figures find a second life in these paper miniatures by people too,
the collaborative efforts of russian designers alexei lyapunov and lena ehrlich.
Bob Marley
The Beatles
Elvis
Elton John
MJ
Queen
The Office
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Paper People
Paper People..
celebrity and historical figures find a second life in these paper miniatures by people too,
the collaborative efforts of russian designers alexei lyapunov and lena ehrlich.
Bob Marley
The Beatles
Elvis
Elton John
MJ
Queen
The Office
celebrity and historical figures find a second life in these paper miniatures by people too,
the collaborative efforts of russian designers alexei lyapunov and lena ehrlich.
Bob Marley
The Beatles
Elvis
Elton John
MJ
Queen
The Office
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Jelly Bean Art.
Jelly Bean Art!
California-based artist Kristen Cumings spends hours on end piecing together detailed works of art out of thousands of colorful jelly beans. Needless to say her pieces look good enough to eat.
Although it must be fun working with jelly beans for a living, making 4 x 6 feet murals out of them is definitely painstaking work. Cumings uses between 8,000 and 12,000 jelly beans for her stunning masterpieces and it takes over 50 hours to complete each one. She starts the artistic process by looking at a close up of the reference photo, and then visualizes where each colored jelly bean has to go. She then paints an acrylic version of the photo on a blank canvas, and once that dries, she begins applying the small beans and tries to match the colors as best she can. The painter/illustrator uses spray adhesive to make sure the jelly beans stick, and usually likes to start her artworks by recreating the main features, like the eyes and nose. Then she just starts applying the other jelly beans from the bottom up until the piece is completed.
LOVE the girl with the pearl earing, love it more made of jelly beans!
California-based artist Kristen Cumings spends hours on end piecing together detailed works of art out of thousands of colorful jelly beans. Needless to say her pieces look good enough to eat.
Although it must be fun working with jelly beans for a living, making 4 x 6 feet murals out of them is definitely painstaking work. Cumings uses between 8,000 and 12,000 jelly beans for her stunning masterpieces and it takes over 50 hours to complete each one. She starts the artistic process by looking at a close up of the reference photo, and then visualizes where each colored jelly bean has to go. She then paints an acrylic version of the photo on a blank canvas, and once that dries, she begins applying the small beans and tries to match the colors as best she can. The painter/illustrator uses spray adhesive to make sure the jelly beans stick, and usually likes to start her artworks by recreating the main features, like the eyes and nose. Then she just starts applying the other jelly beans from the bottom up until the piece is completed.
LOVE the girl with the pearl earing, love it more made of jelly beans!
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Quilling
Bought some of this months ago and never got round to doing any so thought i'd look it up. AMAZING.
Basically, the quilling process consists of cutting strips of paper, and rolling them with a special tool. It sounds simple enough, but special skill is required to create more advanced shapes like marquises, arrowheads or holly leaves. All through the years, the art of quilling has remained almost unchanged, but new specialty supplies now allow quilling masters to create anything from detailed 3-D figures to wall-sized museum installations.
Because it requires so few supplies, quilling is available to anyone with enough patience to give it a try, and with a little bit of practice you’ll be creating some pretty amazing paper artworks, just like iron-maiden-art, whose works I think show the beauty of quilling.
Basically, the quilling process consists of cutting strips of paper, and rolling them with a special tool. It sounds simple enough, but special skill is required to create more advanced shapes like marquises, arrowheads or holly leaves. All through the years, the art of quilling has remained almost unchanged, but new specialty supplies now allow quilling masters to create anything from detailed 3-D figures to wall-sized museum installations.
Because it requires so few supplies, quilling is available to anyone with enough patience to give it a try, and with a little bit of practice you’ll be creating some pretty amazing paper artworks, just like iron-maiden-art, whose works I think show the beauty of quilling.
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Sarah Beetson
one of my fave artists/illustrators. studied her work throughout sixth form and fell in love :)
heres an example of her work and my version..
click to her website..
heres an example of her work and my version..
click to her website..
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