Paper Art 5 – Paper Beards

This one is strictly for fun. It seems there are a lot of folks, young and old, who would like to see themselves in a beard without the maintenance or the mess beards create […]

Paper Art 4 – Books as Portraits

When I first thought of doing a series on artists who worked in the medium of paper, I did not plan to focus on just those who created portraits or human scenes/clothing, but when […]

Paper Art 3 – Maps as Portraits, Maps as Clothing

Native New Yorker Matthew Cusick was born in 1970, graduated from The Cooper Union with a BFA in 1993, and his work began to be exhibited internationally within just three years. His resume is […]

Paper Art 2 – Life-size Figures in Cardboard

Warren King is an American artist living and working in Stockholm, Sweden, particularly known for his life-size figures constructed from cardboard. In 2010 he traveled to China for the first time and visited Shaoxing, […]

Paper Art 1 – Toilet Paper Roll Portraits and Tales

I would venture to guess that in any home that doesn’t include preschoolers programmed to save such goodies for craft projects, toilet paper rolls are not generally looked upon as a serious art medium, […]

Variations on Mona Lisa – Unusual Portrait Media – Part 5

If you want to discuss portraits that have been created in unusual mediums, no one can outdo Leonardo da Vinci’s 500+ year old Mona Lisa. We began this series by noting Phil Hansen’s amazing […]

And That’s Not All – Unusual Portrait Media – Part 4

Each category of artists featured in this blog is meant to highlight five people, but this post brings our “Unusual Portrait Media” group to nine because each person I read about intrigued me more. […]

A Passion for Pixels – Portrait Art – Part 2

As we noted in the previous blog, Ken Knowlton created portraits using the pixel possibilities of dice, dominoes, Braille, seashells, jigsaw puzzle parts, crossword puzzles, and spools of thread. What’s left? Plenty! #1 -The […]

The Carvers

According to a variety of sources, artisans have been sculpting butter for thousands of years, and chocolate for well over 100 years, but it has only been in the last decade or so that […]

Creating Portraits with Unusual Materials – Part 1

Ken Knowlton is a fellow Sarasotan whom I met through mutual friends from Michigan, and who quickly made it to the top of my list of artists I wanted to feature. “improv artist” tends […]