Art

March 14, 2016

Floral Human Figures Digitally Bloom From Dried Flowers That Have Been 3D Scanned

Artist Jean-Michel Bihorel uses real dried blooms to create a stunning digital series called Flower Figures. The French creative says that this project is “a bit more experimental than what I usually do,” as his work typically features characters with a cartoonish look and feel. Here, he's utilized 3D scanning technology to capture a bunch of dried white hydrangeas that were then multiplied and modeled over a female form.

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March 11, 2016

Elegant Wooden Chair Hand-Carved from a Single Tree Stump

With the right artistic vision, an ordinary tree stump can become something magnificent. In 2014, Alex Johnson demonstrated this with his chair called Glemham I, which he carved out of a large oak stump. It took the craftsman six months to complete his wooden creation by hand using everyday tools like a chisel and gouge.

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March 10, 2016

Vintage-Inspired Wooden Drawing Machine Produces Complex Designs with the Turn of a Crank

Long before there were plastic drawing toys like the Spirograph, there were wooden drawing machines. Dating back as far as the 1880s, these mechanical devices produced intricate geometric images using a pendulum or working along a curve, known as a cycloid. While both approaches created complex drawings, the old cycloid machines were limited in how they could be tweaked and hampered their design possibilities.

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March 7, 2016

Multicolored Palette Knife Paintings Explore the Many Layers of Human Emotions

Artist Joshua Miels‘ textured paintings pop off the canvas with multicoloured brilliance. Through intricate layering techniques, his vivid paintings communicate the raw emotion that his subjects inevitably convey through their subtle physical cues, which Miels eloquently picks up on and then transmits through his paintbrush. His striking portraits are powerful in both their technical brilliance and their ability to strip each model down to their most vulnerable state.

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