Nailed Art
Marcus Levine makes sculptures of people by hammering nails into large white wooden boards. Amazing! All done freehand and by eye - no tracing.
See also Screw Sculpture.
Art From Thread Spools
Devorah Sperber makes upside down pixelated pictures using spools of thread like this version of John Lennon's self portrait. When viewed through a glass or acrylic sphere placed in front of the piece the image appears smaller and the right…
3D Paper Art
Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich make these amazing sculptures out of paper and a lot of patience and tweezers! Their website (in Russian, use Chrome to translate) is well worth a look.
The piece above reminds me a bit of…
Paper Cut Tapestries
Tomoko Shioyasu makes these huge majestic hanging paper cut tapestries. When illuminated they throw an otherworldly changing pattern of shadows and light. They look like satellite pictures of rivers on Earth - all those intricate fractals. More pics here.…
Human Printer
The Human Printer follows the same colours and dot process as a printing machine to reproduce photographs as a hand drawn print. Human imitates machine imitating humans...
Book Surgeon
Using tweezers and scalpels Brian Dettmer goes to work on a book; surgically removing pieces to produce a truely unique work of art. See his Flickr pages for more images.
3D Art From Screws
Andrew Myers makes 3D portraits by screwing coloured (Phillips head) screws into boards. And he does all this free hand - like sculpture. They look amazing. AOL has some video.
Chandeliers From Bicycle Chains
Carolina Fontoura Alzaga makes chandeliers from bicycle chains... a chaindelier if you will. There's a gallery and an artist's statement on her web site. I just think they look cool.
Typography Via Book Origami
Now here's something you don't see everyday: origami on book pages to create typographic art. Marvelous. It's the work of Isaac Salazar (an accountant according to his Flickr profile, should probably add artist to that list too). You can…
