I like the idea of using non-traditional art supplies to complete an art project. Not only is it original or another way to express yourself, but it's also a way for people to complete a project without having to spend HUNDREDS of dollars for the "finer" art supplies.
The first image is made by the woman Devorah Speber. She is an american installation artist that creates work out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners, and map tacks that act as an optical illusion. The first image exhibits the Mona Lisa. The spools are hung in long, adjacent columns to create a pointillist, inverted abstraction of a famous painting. When they are viewed through the naked eye they are barely recognizable, when viewed through the optical device the abstractions are inverted (shrunk) into a detailed image of original painting.
The first image is made by the woman Devorah Speber. She is an american installation artist that creates work out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners, and map tacks that act as an optical illusion. The first image exhibits the Mona Lisa. The spools are hung in long, adjacent columns to create a pointillist, inverted abstraction of a famous painting. When they are viewed through the naked eye they are barely recognizable, when viewed through the optical device the abstractions are inverted (shrunk) into a detailed image of original painting.
Lisa Binkley was inspired by artist Chuck Close's larger-than-life paintings, and she then started working with layered bottle caps to create subtle shading, Croteau created this 7' x 8' self portrait entirely out of bottle caps!
The three images below also exhibit nontraditional items used to create artwork