Pumpkin Carvings by Jon Neill

Jon Neill, a famous sculptor and a member of the Laguna College of Art and Design’s Sculpture faculty, creates these jaw-dropping pumpkin carvings.





















Check his website: neillartstudios.com

Heterosis by Brian Banton

Toronto-based designer Brian Banton created these kinetic typeface called 'Heterosis', a three-dimensional fonts made from transparent elastic bands that run between two parallel plexiglass windows.























Check his website: http://brianbanton.com/

Assemblages by Jean-Pierre Seguin

Montreal-based artist Jean-Pierre Seguin construct portraits and scenes by combining Pointillist techniques with collage, using a variety of everyday materials.















Check his website: http://www.jeanpierreseguin.com/en

12 Astrological Symbols by Trina Merry

New York Visual Artist Trina Merry (previously here and here) spent one year painting 60 people for this special interpretation of the astrological symbols.



"From November 2014 to May 2015 I sculpted, body painted and photographed 60 models–including myself– into the 12 symbols of the zodiac.I view this work as my way to examine the impact of astrology in a current world in a modern aesthetic, while maintaining the sensibilities, skills and stories of crucial works of art from thousands of years before me."



"I spent anywhere between two to nine hours positioning and painting my models with non-toxic, water based body paint and airbrush paint. Once painting was complete, I had to meticulously reposition everyone to take the final photo."



"Each painting I make only exists for a few spirited moments before the models are out of place and are on their way home on the subway, covered in paint, with only an image on a camera and a small amount of video footage to document what we created."























Check her website: trinamerryartist.com

Glen Ronald, The Chaos Whisperer

Canadian artist Glen Ronald created paintings that are called chaosmos, for he creates a field of chaos and pulls the cosmos (or order) out of it.



He transformed crackled paint and frenetic ink splatters into portraits of people and animals.



"I use several techniques such as splashing ink, spraying water, and applying the paint with unusual methods."



"I am inspired by chaos, music, nature, science, spiritual questions, and human psychology."



"When I first started, I was trying to do automatic drawing—drawing from my subconscious and creating chaotic shapes manually. And then it branched out into experimenting with trying to create chaos—chaotic patterns—just in a more truly chaotic way. Instead of me drawing something that I think looks like chaos, which I was really drawn to for some reason, I was like, “I’m going to start using actual chaos and forcing myself to work with what’s really there.” And that could involve pouring of liquids, pouring of inks, experimenting with stamping inks onto a surface—whatever you have to do to get wild-looking textures. And then I’d do that searching and reflecting on that chaos, looking at it and trying to see what’s in there that’s meaningful and I always had this—one of my little weird rules in my head is that it has to be meaningful. I think that goes back to your world view or your beliefs: do you believe life is meaningful or do you believe it’s meaningless? ’Cause that would come out in whatever art you would create from that."



"So if I looked at a blotch, I’m looking at it in the same way a kid looks at some clouds. Looking at this, you know, is this a dragon’s head? Or is this the tail and the head of a wolf? I’m going to look for opportunities in that chaos and if a wolf starts to present itself, then I’ll go with that, but I’ll go with it in the way that it’s naturally headed. I want to bring that thing out—and then you pull it out of the shapes, the textures that are there. If I make some chaos…I’ll look at that and say that’s beautiful and that’s got a lot of potential and that’s where I would want to work with something that if I made one, and if it looks ugly and it looked like a dead end, I’d probably just chuck it out and start over."















Check his website: www.glenronald.com/ and Etsy store

Source: markermagazine

Face to Face by Ege Carpets

Danish carpet manufacturer Ege Carpets and young designer Brian Frandsen teamed up to create this 'Face to Face' project.



“Face to Face is brash and personal: Brian Frandsen’s own face has been scanned and used as a pattern for the many carpets that have been cut out and placed vertically and in layers.”



In total, 920 m2 of carpet, cut up into 250 layers is composed into a three-dimensional portrait.



"Face to Face questions how we perceive faces and how our brain plays us tricks when a two-dimensional image is transferred onto a three-dimensional shape."



"The installation was part of the exhibition The Tube, at Salone del Mobile Milano 2012. The Tube is promoting Kolding School of Design at the Milan Design week. Each year seven students and graduates are paired up with a Danish company to produce an experience within the frame of a nine-inch cargo container."