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.
Jelly Buildings
Liz Hickok makes models of cities from jelly. The installations last only as long as it takes the jelly to melt... or to be eaten.
A YouTube video is embedded below.
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…
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.
Pixelated Sculpture
Shawn Smith makes these incredible pixelated sculptures of real things - exploring the intersection of reality and the digital world. The sculptures are built by hand from 1/2 inch strips of plywood or MDF - the strips themselves are hand…
Glass Sculptures
Shayna Leib makes beautiful organic sculptures out of glass inspired by nature. The painstaking process, which she describes on here site, involves hand pulling the coloured glass into canes which are then molded and cut to length. Lovely.…
Pencil Sculptures
Jennifer Maestre makes sculptures from pencils. The sculptures are made by beading 1 inch long pencils that have a hole drilled in them - mostly with the peyote stitch. The sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of…
