Are you ready to have your mind blown by embroidery? Then check out Julie Sarlouette’s creations.
Yes, these are embroidery.
You’ll find a number of anatomical themes, and her subjects are always intense and expressive. Her creative use of color is extraordinary.
Bozka (Polish artist Bozena Rydlewska) is a gifted botanical illustrator with a series of pop up nature scenes.
Can you imagine opening a folded piece of paper and seeing THIS spring to life before your eyes? I’d like to keep one nearby for emergency doses of vibrant vegetation in barren winter months.
Lotuses are my favorite flower, and she does an outstanding job with the petal detailing on this.
Bonus marine life!
See more, as well as gorgeous 2-D illustrations here.
Fine Line Workshop has a collection of boxes with…personality.
The three dimensional quality is fantastic.
Doesn’t this seem like a safe way to store your valuables? Nosy trespassers face the clear risk of being chomped to bits.
Some of them appear eerily sentient…
It’s the eyes.
I love Caitlin McCormack’s crocheted creatures!
Some appear to me made from vintage doilies. Such an unlikely craft material for this subject matter, and I think it works.
The stray strings add to these pieces, as if they impart a kind of natural disarray or decomposition. Beautiful.
These painted gourds from Light and Shadow Studio look marvelously three dimensional!
Wouldn’t it be nice to have little laughing moons peeking at visitors in your house?
Explore the website for some really great holiday folk art, too.
Blaker-DeSomma Glass has a beautiful series of glass ocean wave sculptures.
I love how these creations capture the energy and movement of raging seas.
These, in smaller scale, would make amazing wedding cake toppers.
I’m not dyeing any Easter Eggs myself. But if I were, I’d like to take a crack (no pun intended) at galaxy eggs.
Perhaps next year I’ll find a tutorial and whip some of these up.
Bonus solar system:
Are you dyeing eggs? Any special designs?
Isobelle Ouzman’s altered books are spectacular three dimensional creations that breathe new life into discarded volumes. Light seems to shine from within them, and draw us down a path inside the pages.
She states:
Every book that I alter was found by a dumpster in Seattle, a recycling bin, a thrift store, or was given to me by someone who no longer wants it. Rather than have these discarded books sit out in the rain or in some store to gather dust, I’m striving to make good use of them. I love books very much and would never carve into one that was valuable. I just want to give them a new life and a second chance to mean something again.
As to how I make these – glue, an x-acto knife, Micron pens, watercolors and lots of love.
Her illustrations are equally magnificent, so check those out too.
Gabriel Schama makes incredible large scale laser cut pieces (click photos to enlarge). The depth and texture are mesmerizing!
Each layer is cut and mounted, one by one, allowing the shapes and forms to evolve in ways even the artist himself doesn’t plan (aside from the initial cutout shape). Isn’t it wonderful that they grow like organisms?
It’s like geometric shapes that have melted and broken free from the confines of their own rigid lines!
I love his three dimensional mandalas!
See a time lapse video of some hand cut work:
Graphic artist and painter team Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev make tiny porcelain creatures with a wild array of finely detailed whimsical designs.
Some have strange scenery painted on them…
Others have what look like the natural scales and markings of creatures from a colorful parallel world.
And some contain the cosmos!
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