British retiree Bill Barritt is probably the only person in the United Kingdom who can boast that he owns the railroad. The most real, albeit miniature. The old man, who recently turned 80 years old, built it with his own hands in three years, having spent about 30 thousand dollars on this project. His garden is now surrounded by 1.2-mile rails, on which an eight-car train runs
There is no need to explain to anyone what origami is - almost all of us have been doing it in one way or another. Someone folded airplanes and boats, someone boxes and elephants, and someone went much further, making completely unusual and unique things out of paper - from comic book wallets to provocative outfits
A talented Englishman by the name of Kyle Bean has repeatedly appeared on the pages of our site with his curious and diverse projects. The designer is a multi-user, he made an installation from an eggshell, and did paper art, and now, he is collecting a collection of insects. From matches, yeah
What will you do if you find a wine stain on your clothes or tablecloth? American Amelia Harnas, for example, will not rush to the kitchen for salt, because for her a spilled drink is an invitation not to wash, but to creativity. Wine will rouge anyone: not only a tipsy guest who has planted a wine stain, but also the hero of an embroidered portrait that appeared thanks to this
Housewife Maddy Chambers is a real Tolkien fan. However, her hobby is not limited only to multiple reading of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and watching its film adaptation: Maddie spent a year creating the house of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and now proudly demonstrates her creation to everyone
It is believed that paper should not be eaten - it causes volvulus in large quantities. But now the Paper Donut company has released a whole series of products called Curious Breakfast, which is a paper food. True, you don't need to eat it. Curious Breakfast is designed to showcase the power of paper
There are authors who create serious works that rightfully occupy a place in the collections of famous world museums and are printed on the pages of art publications. And there are others whose works are unlikely to ever go beyond the Internet blogosphere and videos on Youtube - just such is our today's hero FlippyCat. His creations from dominoes do not even claim to be serious works of art, but they make the viewer smile, and this, you see, is already a lot in
Today we will focus on printer cartridges. They are, they are being used, and they are running out. And when the cartridge is empty, all that remains to do with it is to throw it in the trash can. But wait. There is a much more environmentally friendly, mentally warm and physically active option for using empty cartridges: use them as the main material for installations and sculptures in the form of spaceships with robotic arms
Nails are such an attribute of a woman that can reveal her inner world. No wonder now manicure masters are appreciated more and more. After all, they know how not only to cut and paint their nails. They can make real works of art out of them
The opinions of teachers and parents on education issues can differ significantly. But on one thing they are unanimous: children must be involved in applied art. Fortunately, modern stores are inundated with goods for children's creativity. It can be either a traditional construction set or a paper modeling kit. Such a pastime not only develops people, but can also serve as a good hobby. For example, Luca Iaconi-Stewart has been creating a paper reproduction of the Bo plane for 5 long years
Kerry Hawley, 23, a talented Cambridge University student, loves to surprise audiences with unexpected know-how. So, a young Englishwoman creates interesting crafts - openwork and almost weightless necklaces. These original jewelry are made of natural material - human hair. The works of the craftswoman made a noise in the art environment, causing mixed feelings and different reactions of the audience: from delight to disgust
More recently, we talked about the cheerful notes painted by the Novosibirsk art tandem "Too People" (Alexey Lyapunov and Lena Erlikh). But the music-oriented work of our talented compatriots did not end there: they are also known for their wonderful paper sculptures depicting the great musicians of our time - in a slightly caricatured, but very funny and original form
Double Dragon is one of the most famous and popular games in the eighties and nineties. It is a pity that now it is practically forgotten, unlike its "contemporaries", the games Super Mario Bros., Pacman and Space Invaders. But artist Aled Lewis is sure it's too early to forget about this game. So he cut a scene from Double Dragon on a wooden plank
It turns out that the problem of bad roads is not only in our country, but in much richer and more developed countries. For example, in France, where even in Paris the condition of many roads leaves much to be desired. But Paris would not have been Paris if they had not taken a creative approach to this misunderstanding. For example, as the artist Juliana Santacruz Herrera, who used her knitting talent to patch holes on the roads
Beauty is a terrible force! Although, in our case, it would be more appropriate to say that art is a terrible force, since calling the dolls, which the artist Amanda Louise Spayd sews, is not easy to call beautiful dolls. Probably, this is what the dolls of the voodoo priests looked like, so that it would not be a pity to pierce them with needles and fry them on the fire
Ryan Novelline is an American painter, fashion designer and designer living in Boston. And he is also a person who has not forgotten about a happy childhood and once beloved fairy tales. And not only didn’t forget, but decided to share these memories with us, using pictures from old collapsed books into a fashionable business. The result is a truly fabulous dress - an outfit for a young princess-book reader
Taking inspiration from nature in general and the plant world in particular, Brazilian author Simone Lourenco carves colorful, intricate and emotional works of art from colored paper
Briton Matthew Picton creates amazing models of famous cities from many tiny pieces of paper. Sometimes it is not just paper: on one of the streets of Dallas you can find photographic evidence of the last car trip in the life of President Kennedy, and Dublin at the beginning of the 20th century was assembled from scraps of James Joyce's "Ulysses"
American origami master and theorist Erik Demaine gives sheets of paper the geometric shape of a "hyperbolic paraboloid" - simply put, a potato chip with ribs. The trick is that from a scientific point of view, this is practically impossible - this cannot be explained by Demaine himself, who, by the way, has a scientific degree in mathematics
When they say "candy" about something, they want to emphasize the good appearance and even the kawaiiness of this object or person. But the Candelier lamp can be called "candy" without any metaphors. After all, it is made just from hundreds of gummy candies
Origami has long ceased to be the art of creating flowers and animals from paper. New developments have shown that origami may well reflect not only, let's say, “eternal” things, but also quite modern ones. This, that is, the creation of modern origami, is what the American engineer and artist of Chinese origin Brian Chan is doing
While some authors in their work try to master the latest achievements of progress, others remember their grandmother's knitting lessons and create equally talented works with the help of yarn. For example, Joe Hamilton crochets portraits of people in a way that not everyone can draw
Adults who do not have children of preschool or primary school age have probably already forgotten the last time they held colored paper and scissors in their hands. After all, the application, as a rule, is an activity for kids in the lessons of fine art or labor, what should adults do with this good? Well, at least what is obtained by the American designer Michael Velliquette
Every year in Russia there are more and more fans of anime and manga. Moreover, in addition to just comics and cartoons, these realities of Japanese culture extend to other areas of art - from fine arts to more unusual forms. Take, for example, these wonderful paper dolls, some of which are so coolly made that you can't immediately see that this is ordinary paper
After so many publications about paper masterpieces, take at least the recent sculptures by Carlos Meira, or the mini-origami Mui-Ling Teh, it seems that it is no longer possible to surprise us with paper art works. But the paper sculptures of Francene J. Levinson, which will be discussed, are still amazing
Jewelry made by Minnesota craftswoman Jaana Mattson contains no precious metals or expensive stones. But they have something different: a small piece of history, the nature around us or someone's life. And for some people it is more important and more expensive than gold or diamonds
Cake is not just a sweet delicacy, it is a real decoration of the festive table. Truth, skilled craftsmen sometimes create such masterpieces of culinary art that are more like sculptures made of marzipan, glaze, cream and biscuit. Today we are talking about amazing Kathy Knaus cakes (Kathy Knaus)
I always wanted to become a jeweler ‚but became a Ukrainian philologist :) I moved to another city for my beloved - I took only a cat with me … And then I find out that my friend is getting married. I didn't know if I would be at her wedding, but I wanted to make a gift. This is how my first bezel turned out - the product is as beautiful as my friend
Artist Dan Beville used something that we never paid attention to in his work, namely, different colors of different motherboards. And he turned out to be neither more nor less, but a real stained glass window
A little over ten years ago, American craftswoman Jenny Hart first took up a needle and a hoop, and soon she founded the firm "Sublime Stitching" ("Amazing embroidery"). The task of the needlewoman is to revive and popularize the "old-fashioned" art. Books, exhibitions, speeches, collaborations with magazines like Rolling Stone and The Face, her own successful business - the 39-year-old American is by no means old-fashioned. And her embroidered portraits are very different from traditional needlework
If you still have old magazines that you definitely won't read (or maybe you haven't read at all, having limited yourself to viewing pictures, and you don't even know why you bought and save up this waste paper), you can safely take them to the trash heap if you not familiar with Christopher Coppers. This guy rips up prints like Vogue, Playboy, Glamor starting from the cover so that they turn into a real work of art
The idea of using money as jewelry is not new at all. Ringing coins can be seen on necklaces, earrings, belts … But how to use paper money in this way is a more complicated question. However, the young Belgian Tine De Ruysser does not see any difficulties here and enthusiastically makes origami jewelry from banknotes
Just as sometimes a physicist and a lyricist, a romantic and a cynic can reconcile in one person, so in an Israeli designer named Hanan Kedmi love for computers and handicrafts coexist. So, one of his projects called Felt Follows Form is a collection of multi-colored woolen rings with "implanted" computer details as a decor
Filmmakers and historical reenactors have been trying for decades to show the war as truthfully as possible. And they succeed with varying degrees of success. But the American Mark Hogancamp recreates the war with the help of puppets
There are also such originals that store audio and video tapes at home. Someone is just too lazy to throw them out, but someone really watches films from them, listens to music. But Erika Iris Simmons makes portraits of both her friends and famous people out of them
People who know German have probably already noticed the unusual, enviable for any artist, surname of our author, Sebastian Schonheit. Indeed, translated from German, this word means "beauty", therefore, the profession for the young man was chosen, if not in heaven, then certainly some higher powers. However, looking at the "Giant Knit" project created by Sebastian, it begins to seem that higher forces helped him not only with the choice of a profession. Can the simple
We have already talked about the role insects can play in contemporary art in the article about the Debug art project, a series of paintings created by ants, ladybugs and other bugs. However, in addition to these centipedes, others wake up in the spring. Less pleasant, but no less talented. Fly fun is a selection of humorous pictures about life … the most ordinary flies
The arts of patchwork and quilting are as similar and as different as graffiti and murals. Quilting is a broader concept that includes patchwork, and applique, and embroidery, and track stitches, and as a result, a pile of colored scraps and kilometers of thread turn into real paintings from fabric, which can sometimes give a significant head start to painting and watercolor graphics … Eileen Doughty is one of the needlewomen who managed to reach certain heights in this nel
Today I would like to show you my jewelry, or rather jewelry made by me. All products are made of plastic with the addition of various beads, pendants and sometimes ribbons. I wanted to make this collection in a vintage style, but how well I did it for you to judge
Books die in different ways. Some turn into dust, some are burned at the stake, and some turn into completely new works of art. The latter, for example, include those old books that were taken up by the American artist Julia Feld, who creates incredible volumetric appliqués from them