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Can you imagine the craziest materials that can be used to make a Portrait? If not, here are a few ideas: screws, socks, toy soldiers, and bullet casings! Take a look at this article and find out what are the 10 Craziest Materials used in Portraits!
Portrait made of Recycled Materials
British artist Jane Perkins uses objects like marbles, toys, plastic forks, or buttons picked up from recycling centers, second-hand shops and junkyards. Collectors pay up to $3,250 for one of her portraits! Link | Via
Portrait Made of 5000 Toy Soldiers
This portrait was made using more than 5500 toy soldiers! It’s called “Made in China” because these toy soldiers are manufactured there, and the picture of this Chinese soldier boy was used on the front cover of LIFE magazine to cover the Sino Japanese War. Link
Portrait made of Screws
Andrew Myers is the only artist in the world who uses screws as the main medium to create 3D art, in this case, 3D portraits! The brilliant artist doesn’t rely on a computer to pixelate his works, unlike other artists. Myers simply makes a grid and drills in screws at certain key points to establish the depth of his artwork. Watch a video here on how he does it. Link
Portrait made of Wine Corks
Scott Gundersen used more than 9,000 natural wine corks in order to make this portrait called “Grace”! It took him 200 hours to complete this work! He says that he starts off with a large scale photo, which he slowly fills up with corks. Watch this video of the final 50 hours with 1 photo taken every minute! Link | Via
Portrait made of Floppy Discs
Nick Gentry is a British artist who creates portraits using floppy discs. And to think that more than a decade ago, these were so popular… Now that the USB flash drives are used instead, thanks to artists like Nick Gentry, at least these floppy discs are useful for something! Link
Portrait made of Elastic Strings
South Korean artist Hong Sung Chul uses hundreds of printed elastic strings amd a steel frame to create portraits of human faces and limbs. Nice job! Link
Portrait made of Pictures
This kinda looks like the movie Inception, but with images! Artist Maksim Ksuta uses small photos of masterpieces to make these portraits, but when viewed at a distance, they turn into portraits of the artist’s friends! Pretty cool! Link
Portrait made of Socks
Artist Hong Yi used 750 pair of socks to create this portrait of the famous Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. It took her more than three weeks to complete this project and she used black, white and grey socks.Link | Via
Portrait Made of Toasts & Crumpets
Here we have a delicious portrait of Princess Catherine’s sister: Pippa Middleton! British artist Laura Hadland used 15,000 English crumpets -which weighed over a ton- and over 100 jars of jam and Marmite , and spent 24 hours arranging all of this! Sweet! Link
Portrait made with Bullets
Guess what do Tupac Shakur, John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy have in common? Yes, you got it right: They were all killed by a bullet. And the brilliant artist named David Palmer used all these bullet casings to make these impressive portraits of them. Link
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