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coffee + creativity = artby V Andrew Saur and Angel Sarkela-Saur 

In an April 2007 post MadSilence discussed artists who use roosters, maggots and trees to create art. Since then we’ve been monitoring a wide range of creative artistic expressions involving unusual methods and mediums. Here’s a sample.

Nothing to Sneeze At? Pollen Picassos from National Public Radio:

From the fine swirls of a Jackson Pollack painting, to pieces of a more ephemeral nature, pollen is making its mark as the latest tool for allergy-ridden amateur artists in Decatur, Ga.  Pollen artist Louisa Bailey put her sniffles aside to draw pictures in the yellow stuff.

A piano drawn in pollen by Louisa Bailey 

Rice Field Art from the website FunForever. It’s all Japanese to me but check out these artists who use plants to create art.

 

From the Coffee Art website:

Andrew Saur and Angel Sarkela-Saur have been painting with coffee for several years now. It all started one summer when they planned their first art show in a coffee house in Duluth, Minnesota. They wanted to come up with something unique and creative. Since their show was going to take place in a coffee house, they thought it would be appropriate to use coffee as their medium. They tried several techniques, such as using the coffee bean to sketch with and making pastels out of coffee grounds. These techniques were not successful. So they finally decided to use the coffee as a watercolor. The watercolor technique was the most effective way the artists found to use. They first sketch out an idea, then start brewing a really strong pot of coffee that is really dark and thick! From there, water is added to gain the subtle tones of brown. Finally, a clear coat of acrylic is added to preserve the art and a painting of delicate beauty is finished.

Toothpick Sculptures “The Essence of Patience”by Steven J. Backman.

“I find toothpicks and glue to be the most challenging mediums to create unusual pieces of abstract and contemporary art. Unlike ordinary wood, toothpicks have personalities of their own that evolve once they are incorporated into a mass of formed space.”  -Steven J. Backman

Here is the toothpick art portrait, American Gothic, created by Steven J. Backman:

 

Welcome to Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art.  Enough said. I may never wash my car again.

Mona Lisa – Starry Night Peak by Scott Wade

Nathan Sawaya The Art of the Brick.The sculptures of Nathan Sawaya are made entirely from LEGO bricks.

Remember Jonathan Keats and his tree art? Well here’s another tree artist. The British artist Tim Knowles attaches pens to tree and lets the wind do the rest of the work.

And finally, there’s New York City Garbage. That’s plastic cubes full of–you guessed it–NYC garbage.

NYC Garbageby Justin Gignac

~TAB

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