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]]>Dewison is an artist from Warrington, England, who used to make sculptures from beads and clay before turning her attention to the miniatures she’s known for today.
“I didn’t really set out with the intention of making miniatures. They just turned out that way. It began with making little mossy patches on clay pieces, sourcing materials I found in model railway layouts… Seeing how others recreated such realistic scenes was really inspiring, so I bought some scenery supplies, and the ideas just grew,” she told Colossal.
Dewison’s dioramas are inspired by myth, magic, and the natural world, including the woodlands around her home. Nature has always filled her with a sense of wonder, and she came up with a captivating way to honor its beauty.
Her miniatures show illusions of precious moments captured in time, and they’re usually made with a combination of model-making supplies, acrylic paints, and clay. Many of them depict UFOs exploring the Earth’s surface and admiring the magnificent wonders that our planet has in store.
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]]>Richards is a biology graduate from the UK, who decided to give embroidery a shot while looking for a new hobby after going through a rough patch. After doing embroidery on and off for years, she found green and blue thread in her grandmother’s old tin and decided to try working on some landscape embroidery.
This decision defined her journey as an embroidery artist going forward, and her art is now mostly inspired by endless meadows and lush forests of her homeland.
“I’ve always had an interest in aerial landscapes and use a combination of stitches on felt sheets to recreate them based on the Devon countryside. I particularly enjoy recreating the fields – I love the shapes they naturally form and are made to form by agriculture, seemingly perfectly fitted together yet forced,” she writes on her official website.
Richards enjoys using Google Earth for inspiration, but many of her landscapes stem from her own imagination. As an autistic person, she finds the process of working on her embroidery pieces calming and therapeutic, and she believes her neurodiversity is an integral part of her art.
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]]>Akhikyan is a wire artist born and raised in Yerevan, Armenia, who explored many different art forms before finding his true calling. He tried doing everything from drawing and oil painting to making batik scarves, but always strived toward new forms of artistic expression and eventually stumbled upon the enchanting realm of sculptures.
Despite never receiving any formal art education, he carved his own path in this world after deciding to use metal as his medium. He describes it as “a conduit through which he channels his deepest emotional states” and uses it to capture “the profound beauty that can emerge when raw emotion intertwines with the strength and resilience of metal.”
Akhikyan wants his “sculptures to dictate their own emotional expression as if they possess a life force of their own.” They perfectly capture human figures in motion, showing them do everything from dancing and playing instruments to reading newspapers and holding different objects, making it seem like they’re carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders.
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]]>Kuronushi became interested in shadow art by a happy accident after noticing a shadow of his baby daughter projected on a wall on a sunny day. He was so fascinated by this image that he decided to start exploring tiny wonders that hide in the shadows by creating elaborate cardboard dioramas that have to be pushed at the right angle to project amazing art.
@kuronushi_ #harrypotter #danielradcliffe ♬ オリジナル楽曲 – 黒主くん – 黒主 Kuronushi
Popular culture is Kuronushi’s main source of inspiration, and many of his dioramas pay homage to the fictional characters we all know and love, such as Harry Potter and Iron Man. Kuronushi also enjoys celebrating his favorite soccer players, and we’ve seen him craft shadow art inspired by Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, and Neymar.
Kuronushi has been sharing his art with the world for less than a year, but it didn’t take long for his TikTok page to blow up. He’s followed by two million people on this social media platform, where one of his videos attracted over 350 million views.
@kuronushi_ #piratesofthecaribbean #jacksparrow #jonnydepp #cardboard ♬ オリジナル楽曲 – 黒主くん
@kuronushi_ #messi #art #drawing ♬ オリジナル楽曲 – 黒主くん
@kuronushi_ #ironman #avengers #robertdowneyjr ♬ オリジナル楽曲 – 黒主くん
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]]>White had his first brush with glass art at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He only took a glassblowing class in order to fulfill the art credit requirement, and had no idea this decision would forever change the course of his life and shape his journey as an artist.
After four years of working with glass at university, his passion didn’t fade away, and he decided to pursue it further by working as an apprentice for Andrew Jackson Pollack. He introduced him to the basics of flameworking, the technique that White has been mastering to this day.
(@davidwhiteglass)After doing a series of odd jobs and practicing flameworking in his free time, White finally decided to follow his passion full-time in 2021. This proved to be the best decision he ever made after his glass art became a huge sensation on Instagram, where millions of people watched the viral clips that show him making his signature dinosaur sculptures.
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]]>Relying on the contrast of light and dark to create narratives, Morimoto’s works have an observational feel to them. The subjects featured in them are often shown lost in their thoughts or disconnected from the world that surrounds them. The viewer only has the opportunity to get a good look at them thanks to the lights from vending machines, mobile phones, or neon signs.
When Morimoto shows city streets without people, the previously mentioned sources of light become the main subjects. According to the artist, he feels like they have a “living presence” to them even if there is no one interacting with them.
“They feel to be more than just an object but like a living creature. I enjoy capturing that energy at night,” Morimoto explained in a recent interview.
Morimoto grew up in Osaka, Japan, but moved to Toronto, Canada as a 16-year-old. Initially wanting to become a manga artist, he turned to painting and acquired a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Ontario College of Art & Design. His paintings have been exhibited all over the world and are part of permanent collections of High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy.
Check out more of Morimoto’s captivating works below.
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]]>Oxman arranges musical notes on a sheet to create a graphic portrait that captures the pet’s physical features while the resulting composition captures their playful demeanor. These compositions often have pun-intended names like “Toc-cat-a in B for Pawiano” and “Pawntasy in G for String Orchestra”.
(@sympawnies)“I like it because it seems like a song that fits the unexpected behavior of cats,” one Instagram user commented after listening to “Toc-cat-a in B for Pawiano.”
Sympawnies not only bring much joy to pet owners but they also serve a good cause. Oxman organizes fundraisers through which he sells his pet portraits and then shares the profits with animal welfare organizations.
“I have decided to use my art in order to raise awareness about the situation of various animals around the world and as a way of raising funds for pro-animal causes,” Oxman shares on his website.
Check out more of Oxman’s Sympawnies below.
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]]>Elson collects driftwood and transforms it into whimsical animal sculpture in the most amazing way. By strategically placing a few pieces of scrap metals or adding some paint, a mundane plank can become a dog, and a broken wooden block gets turned into a whale.
Making art out of driftwood and discarded material isn’t new for Elson. She has been collecting old objects and giving them a new purpose for a long time, including a project in which she crafted tiny houses and idyllic scenery. But recently, she has been fully focused on her animal sculptures.
“I’m thoroughly enjoying this new path, as I can be even more playful and inject some humor into my work, which I think is a nice distraction in these troubled times,” Elson told Colossal in a recent chat.
Elson frequently shares her newest driftwood creations on social media. She also has an Etsy shop where she sells the pieces she makes. You can check out more of them by scrolling below.
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]]>Pálsdóttir’s paintings mostly feature close-up presentations of faces, which are often framed by botanical elements. According to the artist, this serves to explore the “historical context” that early humans couldn’t tell apart the colors green and blue because finding blue was a rare occurrence in nature.
While creating her Cobalt Blue oil portraits, Pálsdóttir employs an approach that is similar to collage art. This gives her pieces depth and makes them more life-like.
“My paintings are derived from digitally dissected images. I apply oil paint to the surface in consecutive layers to transfer the abstracted reference information into iconic female forms,” Pálsdóttir shares about her creative process. “The accrued layers leave visible traces of the process and create a physical depth in the portrait. The organic properties of the oil paint permeate the rigid digital process.”
Pálsdóttir was born and raised in Reykjavík, Iceland, but is currently living and working in New York City. Her works have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in her native country and in a number of group exhibitions in the United States. You can check out more of them by scrolling below.
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]]>The creatures that come from the mind of Hattori and appear on canvas are unlike anything you have seen so far. While they have some similarities with real-life animals or humans, they differ from them with their strange-looking body shape, unusual features, and one giant eye.
According to Hattori, his creations are a result of an intuitive process of painting during which he draws inspiration from his visions and dreams.
“My vision is like a dream, whether it’s a sweet dream, a nightmare, or just a trippy dream, “the artist explains. “I try to see what’s really going on in my mind, and that’s a practice to increase my awareness in stream-of-consciousness creativity. I try not to label or think about what is supposed to be, just take it in as it is and paint whatever I see in my mind with no compromise. That way, I create my own vision.”
Hattori exhibited his surreal paintings in the U.S. and abroad while also sharing his newest works on social media. Check out some of them below.
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