Apartment Blocks Painting
18 12 2009These apartment blocks were painted in 4 months in Chartres, France.
Categories : Art, Bizarre, Life
Categories : Art, Bizarre, Life
Jewelry With Teeth And Hair By Van Der Glas
28 11 2009This is from the first collection of wearable works by Polly van der Glas. A new collection will be available in a few weeks on the artist’s website.
Polly was silversmith qualified in 2006 and won the Craft Victoria Fillipo Raphael Fresh! Award upon graduation. All works are handmade, with sterling silver, human hair and human teeth. Human teeth are locally donated and sterilized, and human hair is either locally donated or sourced from India and China.
Retail prices ranges from $180 for a pair of cast sterling silver human tooth stud earrings, or a cast sterling silver plaited human hair ring, to $750 for a sterling silver knuckle ring set with four human teeth.
Photos by Terence Bogue
Categories : Art, Bizarre
Sipho Mabona Origami Art
13 11 2009Sipho Mabona was five years old when he folded his first paper airplane. Fifteen years later Mabona ran out of paper airplane designs to fold and turned to origami hoping it would enable him to come up with original designs.
Categories : Art
Helen Musselwhite Art
28 10 2009Each piece of work is handmade by Helen Musselwhite in her studio in the North West of the U.K. Each piece combines the hand cutting, folding and scoring of a wide range of papers and card that are further worked on to create patterned and textured surfaces. They are then used to build scenes in box frames which are often complex and consist of many layers. This process means that each item of work is individual with no two pieces the same.
Categories : Art
Heaven of Delight with Buprestidae Beetles
5 10 2009Jan Fabre spent four months, helped by 29 assistants, gluing 1.6 Million Buprestidae beetles on the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels to create the Heaven of Delight.
The beetles are a non-protected species and they were gathered from universities and countries where beetles are considered a delicacy.
Categories : Art, Bizarre
Limoge Porcelain Design
4 10 2009Limoges had been the site of a minor industry producing plain faience earthenware since the 1730s. The manufacturing of hard-paste porcelain at Limoges was established by Turgot in 1771. The ingredients were used for the production of hard-paste porcelain similar to Chinese porcelain.
Categories : Art
Driftwood Horses by Heather Jansch
18 09 2009The work of Heather Jansch started from her two passions: drawing and horses. She has a very interesting and diverse biography, many exhibitions, one book published (Heather Jansch’s Diary: A Year in the Life of…..
Categories : Art
Tiago Hoisel Artwork
14 09 2009Tiago Hoisel is a young and talented artist from Brasil. Visit his gallery for more illustrations.
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Categories : Animals, Art
