American artist Maude White hand cuts amazingly intricate paper artworks using a craft knife. On her website White explains why she loves paper as her medium of choice: When I cut paper, I feel as if I am peeling back the outer, superficial layer of our vision to reveal the secret space beneath. With…
Artist Hillary Fayle likes to stitch on unconventional materials. She says she started exploring the idea whilst studying embroidery at the Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England. As Fayle recounts on her website: “I began with using found materials and fabric and transgressed to leaves upon my return to America. I generally try to…
20-year-old cardboard artist and Taiwanese student Kai-Xiang Xhong recreated Tony Stark’s famous Iron Man suit using only corrugated cardboard. In a video interview with the Stan Winston School of Character Arts, Xhong says the cardboard Iron Man suit took him nearly a year to complete as the full-time student only has time to work…
Artwork by KUMI YAMASHITA Kumi Yamashita, whose mind-blowing artwork has been featured previously (here and here), just unveiled her latest artwork in her ongoing Constellation series. Posted earlier this afternoon to her official Facebook page, the new piece was privately commissioned. The Constellation body of work consists of three simple materials that,…
Lilly, Leon & Orson @ Cardboard Box Office Website | Facebook | Twitter When parents Lilly and Leon moved from New Zealand to Sydney, Australia they found themselves with two things: 1. A lot of cardboard boxes from the move 2. A newborn baby named Orson who is now 10-months old With their social…
A stunning gallery of embroidered temari balls by a 92-year-old grandmother who has been practicing the craft for over thirty years.
Artist Mark Khaisman Born in 1958 in Kiev, Ukraine, artist Mark Khaisman studied Art and Architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute in Russia. Now living in Philadelphia, USA, Khaisman uses rolls of brown packaging tape to create incredible works of art. Mark characterizes his work as ‘pictorial illusions formed by light and shadow’. The…
JeeYoung Lee is a Korean artist currently living in Seoul. A recent graduate of Hongik University, Lee transforms her small studio space into a series of surreal fantasy worlds. None of the images below are photoshopped. Everything is built and created in the same small room that measures a modest 11.8′ x 13.5′ x…
Artist and redditor Elliot Frantz (u/thejehosephat) carved these amazing portraits into everyday pieces of corrugated cardboard. Using a simple X-acto blade and lots of patience, these relief-like portraits took Frantz about 16 hours each to complete. On reddit, where these were submitted yesterday, Frantz says Hepburn was the most challenging as her hair would…
One day, artist and mother of three Lacy Knudson was playing with Play-Doh with her children when she serendipitously mixed some colours together and made her first ‘dot’. It dawned on her that these dots could be a creative way to make art and still be with her children at the same time. Play-Doh…
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