Andrew Myers Decides To Screw Art. Portraits Made With A Drill and Philips Head Screws.
It's hard to know whether or not to call Andrew Myers' work paintings or sculpture. A bit of both, Artist Andrew Myers uses anywhere from…
Hole Punch Dots Make Whole Face Portraits by Artist Nikki Douthwaite.
Artist and huge F1 fan Nikki Douthwaite makes mosaic portraits out of photographs, paper scraps, articles and ephemera, but her Hole Punch Dot portraits really caught my eye. Most of us just toss out those little round pieces of paper punched out from larger pieces without giving them a second thought. What we think of us trash, Nikki has turned into an art medium. (more…)
‘Made In China’, A Soldier’s Portrait Created With Over 5500 Plastic Toy Soldiers.
Artist Joe Black's Made In China was created using using more than 5,500 toy soldiers.The portrait is of a Chinese soldier boy taken by well-known…
750 Pairs Of Socks Make A Portrait Of Chinese Film Director Zhang Yimou.
Red Hong Yi Sock Portrait. When Artist/Architect Hong Yi, who goes by the nickname "Red", first moved to Shanghai she was fascinated by how many…
New York People, Places and Things Made With Cut Up MetroCards by Nina Boesch.
As the name suggests, these “Metro Card Collages” are made from cut up pieces of used and expired MetroCards® (MTA cards or New York City subway tickets). (more…)
Portraits of Black Icons Made With Thousands Of Colorful Thumbtacks.
Andre Woolery’s work depicts his journey as an artist and reflects his personal cultural experience as a young black man. His current work, comprised of thousands of colored thumbtacks (not unlike Eric Daigh’s pushpin portraits) combined with paint, is primarily portraits of black icons by design. (more…)
Nonpareil Pet Portrait. One Sweet Beagle Made of 221,184 Colored Sprinkles.
What began as a university fine arts project on Pointillism and Georges Seurat by student Joel Brochu, evolved into a remarkable artistic idea. The Nonpareil…
Eye Popping Pill Portraits of Celebrities Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger & More.
Get a load of Jason Mecier pill portraits of celebrities Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Witney Houston, Courtney Love and Kelly Osbourne made with actual pills. While it’s true that some of these subject’s undoing was the medium itself, others, like Kelly Osbourne have successfully kicked the habit. Either way, these are interesting homages to them. (more…)
Mary Ellen Croteau Creates a Self Portrait with Thousands of Plastic Bottle Caps.
There seem to be an endless number of talented artists creating portraits using assemblages of unexpected items; licorice, junk, toys, pills, pencils, diamonds, pushpins and…
Art to Rave About. Self-Portrait Made Up Of Ecstasy Pills By Artist Scott Blake.
Scott Blake Ecstasy Portrait, a self-portrait from the Savannah College of Art and Design graduate who specializes in unique forms of digital mosaic and bar code art. A few years back, he created this comprised of Ravers’ favorite drug, MDMA or 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, more commonly known as Ecstasy or simply “e”. (more…)
