Athenia Design

This is unusual, its 3D sculptures carved out of old phone books. They are made by Alex Queral an artist from Philadelphia. He produces two new pieces a month and has been working in this way for 14  years. He starts off by sketching a picture and then places it over the phonebook to use as template before using a scalpel to cut away at the pages to create the finished sculpture. You can see a work in progress above and a finished image of Obama to the right.

This is unusual, its artwork created on dirty cars. The work is done by artist Scott Wade who creates these impressive pictures simply out of the dirt on car windows. They range from more traditional pieces based on famous works of art like this Mona Lisa he created in the back of a mini to more unusual works like the one below of a family inside a car.

This is interesting its a piece of artwork created by sand artist Andres Amador. He creates these patterns in the sand some of which span over 500 feet. The work involves raking the sand into intricate patterns. Andres first works on the designs in his notebook before working with the sand. The work has to be completed quickly before the sea washes the design away so the effect is only temporary. After all his hard work the artist is left with just a snapshot of each piece of work. Still its fairly impressive stuff.

This is unusual its one woman's project to recreate the Sistine Chapel ceiling in a cross stitch. It took eight years to finish the piece which is actually longer than it took to create the original ceiling. It certainly is impressive.

The Tate have recently paid £30,000 for a till receipt from a little known artist. The receipt is supposedly a piece of conceptual art. Entitles Monochrome Till Recipt (white) it is simply a receipt for £70.32 worth of grocery items all of which happen to be white. It contains 36 items all of which are white, including boil in the bag rice and Andrex toilet tissue. The artist described the work as a modern still life where objects are imagined rather than shown. The receipt also comes with a list of instructions from the artist which state that a new receipt must be used every time the work is shown because till receipts are light sensitive and fall apart. Each time a new receipt is produced it must be based upon the original which is now archived by the Tate. This certainly isn’t my idea of art.

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This is interesting its some pictures that have been taken by artist Alan Sailer of everyday objects being hit by pellets. He used an air rifle, a camera and a home made flash to create the shots which are quite amazing. He took them by using a laser to trigger the Nikon D40’s shutter and used a special flash to film the action in slow motion. To pinpoint the exact moment to take the perfect shot must have taken ages which makes the results all the more spectacular. Some of the picture are shown below.

 
Strawberry

 
Glass ball filled with water

 
Nut

 
Crayons

 
Christmas Decoration

 
Paintball

 
Tomato

This is interesting, its artwork created by Christian Faur who used crayons to create pictures but not in the conventional sense. He arranges the crayons by colour or tone to create pictures such as the one on the left. The second picture shows a detail of the same piece showing how the crayons are arranged. You can see more crayon art by the artist here.