Gorgeous Paintings on Fallen Tree Logs Mirror Their Natural Origins

The skillful artist Alison Moritsugu captures the real essence of Mother Nature in her log paintings. These beautiful environmental pieces utilize trees as both the subject and the canvas. The fragmented nature of the trees lets the designer to paint directly onto the rustic wood. At once her inspiring work is complete, what results is a painting that explores the history of American landscapes.

Moritsugu lets viewers to see what America was like when settlers first arrived and furthermore depicts the destructive effects of industrialization. Therefore, this sense of strained duality is one of the main stimulations behind the artist's work. She said that I normally like the juxtaposition and tension created by having an image of nature on a section or sample of real nature. However, it is contrast that makes Moritsugu's work a real essence, instigating viewers to reflect on how man has inclined nature and vice versa. 

Moreover, it is also very imperative to notice that the artist gathers her canvases from trees that have naturally fallen after a storm or from human activities that cut them down and plan to chip them. Moritsugu sporadically uses endangered species to make her work even more thought-provoking. Well, so to view the artist's reflective work in person, you can visit New York's Littlejohn Contemporary from November 12th to December 12th, 2015.

Artist Creates Lovely Blooms with Everyday Objects.

Rachel Dein a London-based artist of Tactile Studio preserves everyday objects in an exclusive way. Rachel Dein has using the process of casting, and presses both natural and man-made materials into wet clay and then fills the voids with a unique combination of plaster and concrete. Hence, what results are slabs that showcase the subjects’ complicated characteristics, with their colors delicately tinting the plaster as it dries? Rarely, as an added step to this process, Dein will hand paint the casts after they have been finished and refined.

Moreover, the size of Dein’s work differs, and few of her compositions measure as large as 16 squared inches. She fills these spaces with lovely blooms, vegetables, fruits, and even children’s toys. The potentials are infinite, which gives the clients to chance to request commissions that are tailored to their lives and characters.  She says; I really enjoy the magic of plaster casting to make fossils from everyday life, “whether it’s a shell found on holiday, your grandmother’s treasured lace, a Christening gown, or the flowers from your wedding.” She sells her creative work through her Etsy shop, but she’s also available for custom work through her website. http://www.tactilestudio.co.uk/commissions/

Creative Artist Uses Natural Landscapes to color in Cutout Silhouettes of Animals

Artist Nikolai Tolsty considerately joins forces with Mother Nature to create artwork displaying an all-natural twist. Tolsty has using paper as his main medium of choice; the artist carves out a beautiful sleek animal silhouette on apiece sheet and carryon to photo the said cutout, superimposed on the world around him. Tolsty brings his sophisticated outlines into the natural world, where he searches for an authentic and visually engaging background. Among dewdrop-covered grass, tree trunks worn with rustic lines, brightly bold flower petals, and recently fallen autumn leaves, the artist has a lot of options to select from. Therefore, every image in this ongoing photo project settles on a section of scenery that compliments his latest paper creature. 

Hence, a giraffe's spots are mimicked by blossoming yellow buds, though thin brown leaves serve as a tiger's stripes. In actual fact, nature is used to color in the artist's two-dimensional zoo. Tolsty's work also demonstrates the power of contrast. The sharp lines of the paper silhouettes complement the lush textures of the environment, enhancing the essence of the artist's vision. In the end, Tolsty's simple project purposes to capture the many shapes and forms of beauty that unceasingly occupies the world around us.

Dazzlingly Patterned Jewelry Creates from Layers of Cut Colored Pencils

A talented designer Anna Čurlejová of Carbickova transforms colored pencils into fanciful brooches, necklaces, and earrings. Czech Republic-based jewelry designer does this by mixing different parts of the pencils to create dazzling, colorful layers at the ends, however, when halved, she produce a honeycomb-like pattern; and splitting the color pencils lengthwise makes a striped effect. Therefore, the elements are arranged in sections, and one piece of jewelry will repeatedly comprise multiple motifs. Once the design is finalized, Čurlejová put on a transparent lacquer to the overall form, which sets it into place and gives it a lustrous sheen. Thus, Čurlejová presently sells her colorful creations through her Etsy shop.        Source: My Modernmet     &    CP