Video: Pushpin Portraits by Eric Daig
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It's hard to imagine a more inappropriate object for creativity than a pushpin. But the artist Eric Daigh decided to experiment - and now he cannot imagine his creativity without buttons, because it is with them that he "writes" his amazingly creative portraits.
Originally from Southern California, Eric now lives and exhibits in Northern Michigan. Most artists know that sometimes restrictions on material properties or colors are beneficial. With a simple (and rather harsh) color palette at his disposal, limited to the colors of the button caps, Eric Daig achieves amazing results.
To create his portraits, the artist first analyzes the original image and creates a kind of scheme, where the place and color of each button are indicated in rows. Following this map, Daig places the buttons one by one. The limited range of colors (white, black, red, blue and yellow) is more than compensated for by the quantity: an artist can use more than 10 thousand buttons for one portrait.
Eric Daig creates only portraits, believing that nothing can compare with them in entertainment and assertiveness. It takes him from two days to several months to create one picture, depending on how much time he devotes to this activity per day. Well, if we assume that the artist sits at his painting and works without interruption, then he can finish it in 8-10 hours.
Eric's talent lies in his brilliant perception of color, and buttons are not the only material with which this can be proved. The artist is thinking about his next project, where he plans to create portraits from pieces of colored adhesive tape. “It could actually be anything,” says Eric, “even colored thread.” Well, a person with such abilities is hard not to believe: he can really take anything as a basis for his future masterpieces - and he will succeed!
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