Athenia Design

This is interesting it’s some of the pieces created at the first ever European vegetable carving competition which recently took place in Leipzig in Germany. This eagle (left) was created by Russian vegetable carver Vadim Nefedjev from various fruits. The frogs on the right were created using cucumber,s with their tongues and eyes made from pieces of carrot.

If your painting ability is questionable then there could still be hope.
Perhaps you might not make a major exhibit but you may someday
produce something that could go on display in the Museum of Bad Art.
Masterpieces on display there include this reproduction of the Mona Lisa
and are mainly rescued from bins or donated by art critics.
The works must be original, sincere and interesting and they must try to
communicate something, even if we are not sure what that something is.
The museum based in Boston Massachusetts was opened by Scott Wilson
and now has three separate galleries attracting 8,000 visitors a year.
I feel a masterpiece coming on.

This is interesting its an artist who uses pencil sharpenings to create portraits. Kyle Bean saves all his pencil shavings to create the pictures. The shavings are put into place using a set of tweezers with each shaving being positioned individually. It just goes to show you make art of practically anything.

This interesting looking sculpture has been created by artist
Keisuke Yamada who likes to carve faces out of bananas.
He uses a toothpick and a spoon to create the faces which
take about half an hour to perfect. When he is finished he
takes a picture of the completed piece before eating it.
So far he has created 11 pieces including skulls and dragons.
It will be interesting to see what else he comes up with and
indeed whether he starts to get sick of eating bananas
and moves onto other fruit.

These are interesting, they are made by artist Kobi Levi who makes unusual sculptures out out of shoes. The artist from Tel Aviv, Israel spends about a week making each sculpture by hand and all the finished pieces are supposed to still be wearable. They are certainly interesting and I’m sure you would create an impact with one of these designs that looks like a swan, slingshot or children’s slide. I quite like the toucan ones.

An artist is installing 38 giant roses across ten blocks in Manhattan as part of a floral project. The roses are made of plaster, wire mesh, PVC tubing, steel, fibreglass resin and brass and are complete with bees, ladybirds, aphids and beetles. The project has been created by artist Will Ryman along Park Avenue between 57th Street and 67th Street. Each installation includes up to six painted roses that stands around 25ft high. The whole project has cost about $1 million to create.

An artist has created what is thought to be the world’s largest toast mosaic. The mosaic which is an image of her mother in laws face uses 9,852 slices, that's around 600 loaves of bread. It took six hours to create using nine toasters to brown the bread before arranging them into the image. The Finished mosaic measures 32ft by 42ft beating the previous record which was 29ft 2ins by 44ft 11ins.

A Turner painting depicting the city of Rome has recently sold for £29.7 million, a record amount for eh British artist. The painting Turner’s Modern Rome has been brought by a London dealer on behalf of the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. It was painted in 1839 and has been described by experts as Turner’s finest view of a Italian city. It has only been sold once before on the open market back in the last 172 years. It was previously owned by a descendant of the 5th Earl of Rosebery,who bought it in 1878 whilst on his honeymoon and before that by Scottish landowner and collector Hugh Munro of Novar who brought it directly from the artists exhibition.