Artooz » Sculpturing

Wooden sculptures by Willy Verginer

Rick — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:27:45 +0000

Willy Verginer , an Italian woodcarvers who creates simply awesome artistic wooden sculptures. Utilizing his own unique signature style, all of the pieces reflect everyday life with a strong emphasis on color and composition. His art pieces are basically real sized, Further information on Mr. Verginer can be found via his website.

David O’Keefe: Master of sculpted caricatures

Artooz — Sat, 21 May 2011 05:40:20 +0000

Raised on Hollywood, David O’Keefe has an acute knowledge for the images and personalities that have colored the lives of his generation. His sardonic caricatures and humorous illustrations have appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Mad Magazine, The Village Voice and within the pages of TIME. His advertising clients include Coca-Cola, WaffleHouse, Fuji and SunCom Communications. David O’Keefe Studios, distributes his work through galleries across the country and in Europe.

O’Keefe’s work has won numerous awards from such organizations as The Society of Illustrators (NY and LA), American Illustration, Communication Arts, National Headliner Awards, Dimensional Illustrators, and the Society of News Design.

Audi A7 made out of paper by Taras Lesko

Artooz — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:02:20 +0000

Taras Lesko, a 28-year-old graphic designer basically from Ukraine and now working as a freelancer designer in Seattle. In 2009, he started graphic design work at Turn 10 Studios, Microsoft, for the Xbox 360 video game Forza Motorsport 3. His work there led him to design and create a miniature paper-craft model of the Audi R8 with a custom Forza Motorsport paint scheme.

Stunning Micromachina by Scott Bain

Artooz — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:51:39 +0000

Scott Bain is graphic designer and artist based in Adelaide, South Australia, whose works are one-offs and unique in the world. Micromachina is a collection of real taxidermy insects fitted with various devices that is meant to show how we humans mistreat nature, forcing it to do our bidding.

Once the stuff of science fiction, today flying and crawling insects are used by the military, fitted with audio and video devices. This exhibition experiments using real taxidermy beetles as mechanised shells, to show how we mistreat our fellow inhabitants, forcing them to do our will. Scott’s exhibitions are like mini sideshows, each work, a self contained story guaranteed to amaze, All.

Miniature motorcycles made from old watches

Rick — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:45:30 +0000

Jose Geraldo Reis Pfau, is a very unique artist from Brazil, who transforms old wristwatches in to beautiful miniature motorcycles.A peek into the models will surely win your hearts.Pfau’s collection of miniature motorcycles is huge – he has over two hundred of such mini-sculptures.His work has been displayed at many fairs and exhibitions across Brazil and overseas.

Matchstick Sculptures by David Reynolds

Rick — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:50:50 +0000

David Reynolds, a 51 year old retired British oil rig worker from Southampton, spent more than 10,000 hours gluing 250,000 matches to make a fleet of 20 legendary vessels. Models of the Titanic, Queen Mary and HMS Victory are included in his extraordinary collection.He said: ‘It took me about 10 years to put the Armada together. The anchors and lifeboats with the safety ropes are one of the hardest aspects of each creation. The most time consuming part is doing the blocks and tackles. They’re very fiddly and some ships have 400 of these.’

Metal city landscapes by Franco Recchia

Rick — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:06:01 +0000

Italian artist Franco Recchia uses computer parts and makes city landscapes and skyscrapers out of them. They are very detailedcolor green against gray is completing it all.Recchia shows us how we can make awesome sculptures with simple materials.

Wooden Sculptures By Heather Jansch

Rick — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:23:14 +0000

If you’re into sculptures and animals, you’re definitely going to like these incredible sculptures created by Heather Jansch.Instead of stone, Heather is using wood in her creations.Her sculptures are very beautiful, and she is especially interested in horses, so it’s no wonder to see that most of her sculptures are inspired by horses.She is combining pieces of wood instead of carving them in order to create her sculptures.Have a look on these lovely wooden sculptures.

Newspaper and Book Sculptures by Nick Georgiou

Rubi — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:42:19 +0000

Nick Georgiou from Queens, New York is an inspired artist who managed to use newspapers to create sculptures, the wonderful piece of art. It’s a quite different approach and he gives life to words through his creative works. These sculptures are some strange works reminding of animals like dogs. Some of the works even looks like little aliens.

World War II miniatures by Mark Hogancamp

Rubi — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:07:15 +0000

Mark Hogancamp has started this creative art works as part of his therapy. Can you believe that these miniature war-figures have been created by a handicapped man? Mark Hogancamp has been attacked and badly injured by five men and after he survived a brain-damaging coma, he had some serious after effects. To restore his hand-eye coordination which has been weakened after the accident, he has decided to start creating small figures from different materials. He has chosen that activity as it was less expensive and affordable to him. He decided to replicate some scenes from World War II and after some time, he has built a really impressive collection of different figures which are a 1/6 of the actual size of real figures. This micro or mini level figures represents mini-towns, different figures, buildings and other related stuff from World War II and he named it Marwencol.