Mention chainsaw and the mind usually wanders to lumberjacks cutting trees with chainsaws for logging and to the horror movie ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’. The potentially violent and destructive machine that can be used to create art is something that defies logic. I mean, how can such a crude appliance be used to create wooden […]
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If you want to wear a real one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry, forget the traditional jewelry. Kt Ferris, an American jewelry designer, offers unique jewelry that’s simple, timeless, and clean. However, some of it is with a twist, that is, it actually blinks! This 20-something jewelry designer, based in Brooklyn in New York City, USA, creates
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Colin Mitchell dreamt of becoming the youngest general manager in international paper history and studied hard to earn a degree in MBA. He picked up a job too straight out of college when he was living in Lynchburg in Virginia, USA. However, once into the job, he felt disillusioned by his hard-earned degree and miserable
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures aren’t the only means for expressing art. In India, the innocuous artistic matchbox labels are no less than collectors’ items. And they’ve been depicting art from the time of their inception. If you’ve seen matchboxes down the ages, you’d know the mind-boggling variety of art depicted on its labels. Their depiction
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Ms. CaiCai has certainly turned candle making into art and the variety she offers, through her US-based candle store in Katy, Texas, called ‘CaiCaiHandmade’, is simply mind-boggling. This Japanese, who was an architectural designer by profession, but an artist at heart, let her heart rule over her head and switched to candle making. What really
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If you ever want to play a prank on someone, Ben Cullen’s cakes will certainly give you a thumping success! This is because this King of Cake bakes cakes that perfectly imitate everyday items of food, vegetables, fruits, and much else…even human body parts! So realistic are they that it becomes difficult to distinguish between
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It’s rare to find an artist who is equally comfortable with painting as with sculpting, whose works evoke such strong emotions. Well, Thomas Lerooy is one such artist whose works do stir emotions, mainly because they’re a potpourri of realism and surrealist themes, with a sprinkling of classical sculpting. The viewers are able to identify
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There’s something about the black line engravings of Dan Hillier that immediately catch attention. This amazing professional artist embodies the ‘Steampunk’ aesthetic, combining it with Victorian-era imagery, to produce his original ink drawings. Hillier’s stunning images, rooted in the late-1800s imagery, are fantastical, to say the least. This is because he depicts human-animal hybrids that
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If you’ve read comics of ‘Casper, the Friendly Ghost’, you’d know how loveable this ghost is. Years ago, it was most popular amongst comic book readers. The good news is Lisa Agnetun has recreated this friendly ghost. No, not as a comic book character, but as an adorable ceramic figure. Agnetun, based in Gothenburg, Sweden,
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Guido Daniele is a hand painter and it’s not patterns that he paints, but all kinds of animals that, looked at in isolation, appear life-like, what with the texture and color of their hide, and shiny eyes that look so real. This hyperrealist artist lives and works in Milan, Italy. Born in Soverato in Calabria,
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Folding paper art is nothing new, as is evident by the Japanese art of Origami. However, Simon Schubert, a contemporary artist, has a different take on folding paper art that has much to do with architecture. It isn’t surprising his works have become so popular. This 45-year-old artist basically uses the play of light and
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