10 Craziest Materials Used in Portraits | unusual portraits

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

Spectacular 3D Screw Portraits

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 | Via

3D Screw Man

The screw holes have to be drilled beforehand so that the screws go in straight. But pay attention to this! The background of the portrait is made up of phone book pages! That’s right, and guess what? Usually those phone book pages are with listings from the area of the subject. Awesome!

Woman’s Screw Portrait

Myers says: “There’s nothing planned out. I draw out a figure on the board and figure out the depths. ”

The 6.000 Screw Portrait

This portrait has around 6.000 screws. It took him 6 months to complete his first screw portrait! Link

Sad 3D Screw Man Portrait

His screw paintings are sold for up to $35,000. Not bad, huh?

Fading Away Screw Portrait

Each piece of artwork has an average of 6,000 to 10,000 screws. Link

Woman’s Screw Portrait

Myers says that “One of my highlights is when a blind guy touched the art and knew immediately what it was.”

Amazing Portraits Using People As Pixels

People as Pixels is a body of work by Craig Alan. He constructs portraits of pop-culture icons using people as pixels. From Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn. Check this Amazing Portraits Using People As Pixels.link | via

Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Statue of Liberty

Marylin Monroe

JFK

Marylin Monroe

Strange Portraits Made Entirely of Potatoes | Potato Portraits

Human beings and potatoes have much in common or at least, that’s what Ginou Choueiri thinks. From pop starts to politician, this Lebanese artist made an installation of over a thousand portraits made entirely of potatoes

“I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms.” link

Awesome Portraits Made From Fruits and Flowers | Vegetable Portraits

Do you remember Carl Warner with his awesome landscapes made from food from the previous post?. Well, he was not the first to feature food in such a breathtaking manner.

Photographer Klaus Enrique Gerdes creates a series of portraits made of fruits, flowers, and vegetables called “arcimboldo”. The name comes from “Giuseppe Arcimboldo” the 16th Century painter famous for painting portraits – over 400 years ago – entirely made up of fruits, vegetables, plants and other inanimate objects that still captures the imagination of art enthusiasts the world over.

You can see more of Klaus Works on this link.

 

 

 

 

10 Celebrity Portraits Made of Unexpeted Materials

These artists have created some amazing portraits using pills, food and even garbage. Here are 10 of the most creative portraits made by artists who truly practice a strange art of design

Portrait Of Conan O’Brien made made entirely with Cheetos

Over 50 bags of different flavors used to sort different colors, sizes, and shapes, proving once again some people have WAY too much time on their hands. link

Pippa Middleton Portrait Made With Toasts & Crumpets

British artist Laura Hadland used 15,000 English crumpets and over 100 jars of jam and Marmite to create a delicious portrait of Princess Catherine’s sister, Pippa Middleton and her much-talked-about derriere.

Laura spent 24 hours arranging the 15,000 crumpets into a 13 meter by 21 meter mosaic of Pippa Middleton’s face and the backside that captured the imagination of millions of men around the world, on the day of Princess Catherine’s wedding. The crumpets, which weighed over a ton, were covered with jam and Marmite, for shading. Now Pippa really does look good enough to eat. link

10 Most Realistic Portrait Tattoos Ever | portrait tattoo

These tattoo artists do impressive portraits, they are so realistic that you wont believe are handmade.

Realistic Tattoo Portrait. link

 

Man with glasses by Shane ONeill. link

Color portrait of a german shepard K9 police dog by Shane ONeill  link

Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Erwin Memorial by Shane ONeill – Arm Tattoo. link

John Goodman Portrait link

Bono U2 by Alex De Pase Done at the Milano Tattoo convention 2007. link

Realistic black and gray portrait tattoo of a father with glasses on forearm. link

The Godfather Don Corleone Marlon Brando Tattoo by Shane ONeill. link

John Lennon Arm Tattoo. link

Bob Marley Back Tattoo by Hayley Lakeman. link

Unbelievable Portraits Made From Junk | junk portrait

Zan Freeman is an American artist who make portraits out of useless junk. Up close, the pieces look like crap cobbled together; when viewed from afar, the work is quite compelling. In the artist’s own words: “I started making assemblage artworks of this type in 1999. The artworks are made entirely out of collected junk, found objects, and general trash. I glue the bits of junk to a wooden substrate to form an image, usually faces, which only can be seen at a distance. I was interested in communicating through visual representation in apparent 2-dimensional space and through the actual objects used for the medium in 3-dimensional space. It is very important to me that I incorporate the actual objects into the art as opposed to a picture or rendition of it because it better expresses the intention of the artwork. I feel the junk is more powerful being present. It is an actual thing to be reckoned with that existed in this time and place and carries energy in and of itself.” link