Pretty Paper

Entries for an art contest at the Hirshorn Modern Art Gallery in Washington DC. The rule was that the artist could use only one sheet of paper. This has produced some really interesting, intricate and clever outcomes. I am impressed at how they have made the most of being limited to one sheet of paper by using the area that has been cut out, and used to make the model, to add to the overall image.

From edible to incredible

Something I found on the BBC News website about a photographer Carl Warner who has painstakingly captured all kinds of food in a series of still lifes. Everything you see in the images can be found in the kitchen.


Edible ingredients in this Italian-inspired rural scene include a lasagne cart, fields of pasta, a pine nut wall, mozzarella clouds, trees of peppers and chillies and a parmesan village.


A winter landscape for carnivores - Parma ham and breadsticks are fashioned into a sled which is pulled across a snow-covered road made from a selection of cold meats.


The red sky at night in this landscape is actually made from salmon.

Hand Art

Having been really impressed with the hand art images created for the LSC Skills Advert, I was further impressed when I found some more examples of this work. The attention to detail is amazing. So much attention would have to have been paid as to how the hand would eventually sit so that the image worked. I am especially fascinated by how the artist managed to make the lines and creases in hands work to create the texture of the elephants skin. The finished effect is stunning.