Creative Sculpture With a Twist: 3 Extraordinary Ways to Carve Art Out of Ordinary Objects

Interesting Sculpture Carving Material Choices

Paintings normally require canvas and most theater takes a stage, but carvings can come out of almost any material - a fact which some talented artists have put to into practice in amazing ways. Most people are familiar with amazingly carved ice statues and perhaps even giant cheese sculptures, but what about eggs, pencils or books? Here are three approaches to carving used to create amazing art from ordinary (and often fragile) objects.

Strange Egg Shell Carving Art

Lew Jensen, Don Lisk and Brian Baity and others have approached the art of egg shell carving in a variety of ways and with strikingly varied results. Some artists work layered reliefs into the seemingly one-dimensional shells, others are subtractive and emphasis the relationship between figure and void. One set of artists has even gone into the business of taking larger bird eggs to create lamp shades.

Creative Pencil Carving Sculpture Art

Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado divide their incredibly intricate pencil carvings into four basic types and the rest they consider variations on these basic themes. Any mistake, they note, is fatal for an individual work which must remain intact throughout the delicate carving process. Creating link after link without breaking through thin wood barriers and while dealing with the material change between the graphite and surrounding wood is extremely challenging.

Amazing Book Carving Sculpture Art

Brian Dettmer is a kind of “book surgeon,” performing “autopsies” on old volumes with engaging three-dimensional results. He uses an array of precision instruments to create or reveal patterns within a given book or set of books, often taking advantage of the particular appearance, form and content of his subject material. In many cases, the connection between the material, process and product is overtly evident, as he reveals an interpretation the past through history books and the dissects virtual bodies via anatomy texts.

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Posted by Urbanist December 29th, 2007
Urban Art, Urban Images, Urban Videos, Various
Comments: 12

Comments

Comment from Jessica Short
Time: December 31, 2007, 12:30 am

Pencil carving is a great way to express creativity in an affordable format.
I like the little sculptures that are made out of pencils.

Comment from James
Time: December 31, 2007, 7:09 am

Its cool, but what a waste of time and effort, a CNC machine could be programmed to whip these things out in probably a few hours. Art is not about how difficult or tedious something can be, but how beautiful, something that can’t be programmed.

Comment from Stacy
Time: December 31, 2007, 10:35 am

In response to James’s message:

“Art is not about how difficult or tedious something can be, but how beautiful, something that can’t be programmed.”

I disagree. Art and its beauty are inseparable from the tools, materials, technique, and thought that were poured into it. Furthermore, there is value in displaying the depth and intricacy of human ability, regardless of how efficiently a computer might be able to accomplish similar tasks.

Comment from Ilaarijs
Time: January 1, 2008, 6:55 am

Funny :)

Comment from plasmosis
Time: January 4, 2008, 5:23 pm

wow. amazingly amazing faboulous