Sneakers Cubed Up!>Pawel Nolbert

“Simply, I take a favourite sneaker that I love & I re-envision it as a cube. It’s also a creative way to represent my wish list of sneakers, though I own some of those.”

Each sneaker is shown along with the original one.

All original sneakers & photos belong to their respective authors. No parts of the original photos were sampled to create cube versions.

Sneakercube was created for appreciation of footwear design &  minimalistic aesthetics. It’s not a sneakers news blog, but you might find some sneakers related posts @Sneakercube Twitter or just visit Sneakersave to watch a huge collection of footwear i love.

Its' an ongoing design/illustration personal design project by Graphic Artist Pawel Nolbert.

 

“Simply, I take sneakers that I love & transform it into cubes. Sneakers that are on my wishlist, or that I own. Sneakercube was created for appreciation of footwear design & minimalistic aesthetics.”



Incredible 3D Monster's by AJ Fosik's

AJ Fosik is a Portland, Oregon based artist that creates incredibly intricate three-dimensional sculptures of monsters made out of wood, paint and nails. His works are built using a complex process in which each form is carefully handcrafted by arranging hundreds of pieces of individually cut and varnished wood, which he then paints in vibrant colors and patterns.

Ali Cavanaugh >Neo Fresco Secco

 

Ali Cavanaugh was born in St. Louis in 1973 and has worked as a professional artist for 15 years. Her compositions are strong and intuitive, thanks not only to being a wife and mother but also to the variations in her experience—such as hearing loss—that made her adapt to and recreate the world around her.

Cavanaugh developed a process best described as neo fresco secco, where she applies watercolor to plaster panels; her figures often are accentuated by stark white negative spaces. Fascinated by the dichotomy of the seen and unseen in the human condition…body and soul…Cavanaugh’s art brings to light the complexity within contemplation. Her signature poetic titles are part of this engaging discourse.

"establish a small area of simplicity" She has had 40+ solo and group exhibitions in galleries throughout the U.S. Cavanaugh’s art has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings no.88, American Art Collector (cover artist), American Artist Watercolor, Watercolor Artist magazine, Southwest Art magazine, International Artist magazine, Art Calendar magazine (cover artist), and The Daniel Smith Art Supply Catalogue. Perhaps because of her work’s infectious energy combined with deep reflection, her collectors are particularly devoted. Her work has received extensive recognition and is featured in more than 300 private and corporate collections throughout the U.S., Canada, England, Portugal, Switzerland, Singapore, and Australia. She now lives in the St. Louis area with her husband and three children.

http://www.alicavanaugh.com/

 

‘What Came First’ Eggshell'>Kyle Bean



What Came First?’ is the ingenious sculpture of a Chicken made from eggshells created by Kyle Bean; a Brighton based designer that specializes in hand crafted models, prop styling and art direction…

“As you may know I really enjoy visual puns. My new project ‘What came first?’ is a funny take on the well known saying. I thought it would be a nice ironic twist to actually make a chicken from eggs. It has taken a couple of failed attempts and I have eaten quite a few poached eggs and omelettes in the last couple of weeks, but I have finally finished the sculpture. I made good use of my dremel on this one…”

Kyle Bean is a designer specialising in hand crafted models, set design and art direction. Since graduating in 2009, Kyle has worked for a variety of international clients for a diverse range of projects including installations, window displays, editorial illustration and advertising. Kyle’s work has been recognised by the prestigious Art Directors Club in New York and the International Design Biennial held throughout Europe. His work has been featured in a range of international art and design publications, praising him for both his conceptual thinking and craftsmanship. Kyle splits his time between working from his studio by the sea in Brighton and London where he often collaborates with photographers and directors. Kyle is represented by Blinkart.

PORCELAIN SCULPTURE by Kate MacDowell

Kate MacDowell is an amazing sculptor mainly working with the porcelain medium. Her pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops.  They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones.

“I hand sculpt each piece out of porcelain, often building a solid form and then hollowing it out.  Smaller forms are built petal by petal, branch by branch and allow me the chance to get immersed in close study of the structure of a blossom or a bee.”

“I chose porcelain for its luminous and ghostly qualities as well as its strength and ability to show fine texture.  It highlights both the impermanence and fragility of natural forms in a dying ecosystem, while paradoxically, being a material that can last for thousands of years and is historically associated with high status and value.”

“I see each piece as a captured and preserved specimen, a painstaking record of endangered natural forms and a commentary on our own culpability.”

http://www.katemacdowell.com/portfolio.html
www.katemacdowell.com

Anna Wili Highfield>The Paper sculpturist

Anna-Wili Highfield is a Sydney based artist currently making sculptures of animals from paper and from copper pipe. The paper sculptures are created from archival cotton paper, that is painted, then sewn together, to create the figure of an animal. The copper pipe is bent and manipulated to create sculptural forms reminiscent of line drawings.


 Ana has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Arts School, Sydney NSW.

She has worked for Opera Australia as a scenic artist for several years.

She works almost entirely by commission.

Her commercial clients include Carla Zampatti,  Bianca Spender, Anthropologie and Hermes. However, Anna-Wili’s pieces have predominantly been commissioned by private clients, both within Australia and around the world.


 Her sculptures have appeared in publications in The UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Hungary, Russia , Israel, Turkey, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina, The USA, Korea, China, and Australia.
 

Dino Valls>Spanish Artist

Dino Valls is a Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza. Since 1988, he has lived and worked in Madrid.

Building on a childhood passion for drawing, Valls taught himself to paint in oils beginning in 1975. After completing his degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Zaragoza in 1982, Valls devoted himself full-time to the profession of painting.

As one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art, Valls' work displays the strong influence of past masters and their studies of the human being. In the early '90s, Valls began studying the use of egg tempera, adapting and customizing the techniques of Italian and Flemish masters from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries to create new works in combinations of tempera and oil. His paintings elaborate and expand upon the methods of past masters, employing formal figurative techniques as the medium through which to explore the human psyche in a conceptual framework laden with profound psychological weight and symbolism.

Valls has participated in important international exhibitions of contemporary art, and has held numerous showings in Europe and the United States.