Amazing newspaper sculpture artists and their work

Newspaper is very common thing around us. Use of newspaper is for reading purposes and may be it can be recycled again to create paper. But can it be used to create art? This article is about 2 newspaper sculpture artists. Their awesome work is also shown and if you want to read or see more pictures, their site links are also included.

There are many paper or newspaper sculpture artists like su blackwell whos work is framed in books containing fairy tales, poetry, and even how-tos.
 Here are few selected pictures:

To see more pictures: 25 incredible paper sculptures by su blackwell

Another artist is from America 'Nick Georgiou' known for his use of the printed word as an artistic medium, but not in the way you think. He creates creatures and art pieces out of discarded newspapers and books, and has a penchant for depositing them in random locations throughout New York City. He creates anything from delightfully odd critters to eerily depictive portraits.

Nick Georgiou  uses old newspapers, collected by him or donated by others, tears them into folds and stitches them into various creatures. His works have been exhibited in various shows and galleries, bot in the US and abroad.

Few pictures from Nick Georgiou:

NICK GEORGIOU's profile at blogger

More links:

*  Paper folwers- Anyone can do that

* Creative photos by Chema Madoz * Sculptures and art installations made out of newspapers

Amazing street art photos

What is street art? 


In simple words it is the form of art which can be named 'public art' as it is not bound to any limits and it can be seen anywhere around us. It can be a picture drawn on wall, a little color or placing of objects on the pavements, roads or any place around us, which can have some meanings or look like an artistic thing.


This post is about amazing photos of street art, but first learn about the term 'street art': 


According to 'wikipedia' Street art is art, specifically visual art, developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets". 


The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, sculpture, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations. 


‘Street’ artists do not aspire to change the definition of an artwork, but rather to question the existing environment with its own language. They attempt to have their work communicate with everyday people about socially relevant themes in ways that are informed by esthetic values without being imprisoned by them.

I am inspired by the photos where artists have transformed the ugliness of the surroundings to piece of art as shown in few pictures.

Enjoy the art scattered around us!

 

You may watch more photos at the following link:

106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos – Year 2011

Amazing art and crafts projects with paper quilling

Paper quilling is another form of paper art or craft. It is a great looking art which you can use to decorate gift packs, picture frames, coasters, jewelry, trinket boxes, invitations and greetings cards. Paper quilling involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to make attractive designs. It is also called Paper Filigree or Filigrana.

What is quilling?

Quilling or paper filigree is the art of creating designs with narrow strips of paper that have been wound around a quill or quilling tool to create a basic shape. The basic shapes are glued together and arranged to form all kinds of creative and interesting designs. Quilling is one of the easiest crafts to learn. Nearly all of quilling is done with just a few variations of basic rolls and scrolls.

Quilling history:
Quilling is an art form that dates back to the Renaissance and is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to make intricate designs.

There are two different explanations given for the name "quilling." Some say it comes from the use of a quill as a tool to roll the paper strips into coils, while others contend that the coils of paper created resemble rows of quills.


Where to use quilling?

Quilling can be used to create art pieces by gluing a design of unlimited colors and patterns onto a flat cardboard background. Beyond this, quilling is used to decorate items such as picture frames, coasters, jewelry, trinket boxes, invitations and greetings cards.
In addition to gluing paper coils to a background, quilling can involve sculpting and gluing coils together to create free-standing, three-dimensional objects.

Popular shapes created from paper coils include flowers, leaves, ornate scrolls and abstract patterns.

Quilling can be used to create art pieces by gluing a design of unlimited colors and patterns onto a flat cardboard background.

Quillers can do the quilling at boxes, cabinets and other items with recessed surfaces and decorate them.

Useful resources and links:

* Definition of 'quilling' at: 'wikipedia'

* 'Creative quilling' offers basic tutorial for beginners and free patterns.

* 'My Paper Quilling' offers paper quilling ideas, projects.

* What Is Paper Quilling?

Below are the links to few blogs (I have selected few blogs among hundreds) dealing in quilling projects and you can get lots of tips, ideas, and patterns to make your own quilling crafts.

* 'Inna's Creations'
is a blog with amazing quilling projects.

* 'Quilling, art and expression' offers free instructions and patterns for quilling, tea bag folding, and paper crafts.

* 'If looks could quill'

* 'Quilling ideas'  

* 'All things paper'

* 'Paper quilling ideas'

* 'Basic quilling shapes'

* If you want to know more about this amazing art form go to the link: 'History of paper quilling'

Discover the most amazing stuff on the web

Our earth is round and due to the amazing progress in tech field it is easier for us to discover the places at earth than the past. But still there are many amazing facts which are to be discovered yet. World wide web provides us opportunity to search or browse through information with a click of mouse and same way discovering the amazing, strange, weird or hard to believe facts is easier. It is fun and good time pass when you surf or browse through these sites.

'Most Amazing' offers amazing, strange and bizarre news, posts and pictures collected from the world wide web. You can expect the amazing posts on variety of subjects like:

* Art
* Extreme
* General
* machines and technology
* Nature
* Sports

You would surprise to see the
Few post titles are:
- Amazingly Detailed Origami Art
- Most Amazing Movie Ever
- World’s Tiniest Snowman
- Amazing Sand Art Video
- The Amazing Killer Fungi


Related posts and sites:

* 'Interesting Facts Around the World'

* Few sites with interesting and amazing stuff

* Strange, funny facts and pictures around the net Part-1

* Strange, funny facts and pictures around the net Part-2

* Discover weird facts and articles at 'Dark Roasted Blend'

* Weird and strange news around the net

Few sites with interesting and amazing stuff

Do you love to read amazing, weird and interesting news, articles or facts? Well, I love to read or collect the interesting news, articles or pictures as I share this knowledge with the persons around me. This post is about few online links which would be interesting to check as you can spend some time with a good mood to surf the sites. There are many and more sites or blogs with some interesting and amazing stuff but I have selected only the sites with an entertaining point of view.

* E Amazings is an online magazine for amazing news and articles.

* Village of joy an online entertainment magazine about our worlds most interesting, weird and wonderful things.


* Great Facts is another site with simple layout with amazing facts like:


In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty

One out of 20 people have an extra rib

44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep

Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week

Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries

Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide

* amazing resources is an online resource for amazing information. You can search for amazing facts, ideas, galleries, and a lot of more topics on the site. Just to check I clicked the link 'amazing fun' and found a page with the links to the other sites and I could see few sites which were really awesome.

Amazing fact about the world's first philatelist

There are many hobbyists around the world who love to collect stamps. But there are few who know the history of stamps collecting or other facts about this popular hobby. Do you know was the world's first philatelist, or stamp collector?

I found the answer at "Big site of amazing facts" and I hope that you would also enjoy this amazing fact.

How Did a Classified Ad Lead to the World's Most Popular Hobby?

"In 1841, the London Times carried a most unusual classified ad. It was placed by a young woman interested in wallpapering her bedroom walls. And she wanted to do it with postage stamps!

This young woman thus became the world's first philatelist, or stamp collector. The millions of philatelists the world over who followed her in stamp collecting, however, did not collect for the purpose of papering their bedroom walls.

Only a year earlier, in 1840, at the suggestion of Sir Rowland Hill, Great Britain had issued the world's first postage stamps. They were called the "Penny Blacks," and had the head of Queen Victoria on them.

Before these stamps were issued, people took their letters to the post office and paid the postmaster a fee for sending them. The postmaster then wrote the word "paid" on the letter and sent it off.

With the issuing of stamps, people could buy their postage in advance and simply mail them in public mailboxes that the British government set up throughout the country.

Every country in the world has its name printed on its stamps, except Great Britain, the first to issue them!"

Source: "Big site of amazing facts"