A Japanese artist Akinobu Izumi created these miniature paper sculptures and puts them into miniature bottles.  Each bottle is only 0.9 inch long and 0.5 inch high. These professional architectural models are done with skill and free time.

I would assume it takes some free time to create these small sculptures. If your interested you can purchase them over at Akinobu Etsy store for around $23 - $44 dollars.



















 

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Australia-based artist Ghostpatrol has created these interesting pencil set illustrations with the use of many pencils. He has transformed the pencil from tools to a canvas in a playful art that combines sculpture with illustration. Neatly lining up wooden pencils whose cores have been shaven down to form a blank surface for twee portraits of young'uns and frolicking woodland creatures, his collection evokes innocence and childhood nostalgia in both form and content. You can see the entire series of over 60 illustrations here.











































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Sarah Garzoni is the creator of this beautiful butterfly series, Mimesis. It may be full of deceased insects, but their designs are intriguing and full of life. These butterflies were altered with a new visual pattern of branding with a known company or a common logo. It was all done using an ink jet printer, using a variety of colors and designs to portray these branded butterflies.

Could you imagine seeing a living butterfly flying around with the Target logo on their wings? It would be a sight to see for sure. Sarah series seems to blur the lines between animals and the human realm of communicating, even if it means branding the idea of man into animals. I think this is a great series and if you have time check out more of her work.






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Alexandre Farto known by the art community as Vhils uses a slightly different approach to making art. Although he uses walls to make his art he does use other types of canvas like metal, paper and wood. Also included are the occasional print and/or installation.

Vhils wall portraits are stunning and mesmerizing. From what I'm guessing he first craves the image into a concrete wall and than fills it up again with plaster and explosives. To create a unique and destructive way of portraying his street art.










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Transient is the word that comes to mind when I think of the works of Jim Denevan. They are short-lived as he uses the world as his landscape and use sand, ice and earth to create his geometrical sculptures. The brushes of choice can be anything from a piece of driftwood to a rake or even a bicycle. The result of using the landscape are stunning but without the remarkable location photography they would simple be a waste of time. Something that was once transient is now forever captured and that my friend is not a waste of time.

Here is another tidbit about Jim Denevan he is man behind the the traveling outdoor dining experience Outstanding in the Field. It's sort of traveling dinner event that sets up shop in farms, gardens, and other interesting dinning location across the U.S. They currently are doing a New tour for 2011 so maybe you can check it out this year.





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Bronia Sawyer's book sculptures are just fantastic. I personally didn't know you could craft something as detailed and elegant as these book sculptures. Each sculpture has such great colors, folds and rolls to create these birds and flowers. It's very intriguing as well to hear her take on why she got into designing book sculptures.

I love to take something like a book and turning it in to something visually pleasing. With book sculpture I like the fact that books are flat and square they have order but by cutting them and folding them you can create organic and random shapes. I also like to add colors but mainly for the way it looks in photographs.

Check out more of her work via Flickr




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Bianca Chang who is a full-time junior designer is also a paper artist, illustrator and creative problem solver based in Sydney, Australia. All her sculptures are cut by hand using only a pencil, ruler, compass point, blade and of course 100% recycled paper. Below is a video showing the layers and detail of her design of the letter A. Her Letter A has 180 hand-cut layers of 80gsm paper, which is fascinating seeing how she creates her sculptures and how much time it has to take.

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I know what your think. Your thinking, he must be on a bird kick this week. Well, I can say that I actually am. So let me get right into it and talk about Anna-Wili Highfields paper sculptures. She has done a fantastic job on constructing these birds. This Sydney based artist creates these sculptures from archival cotton paper, which are painted, and then sewn together. I'm sure it 's not an easy task to try and sew together paper. She also does other animals as well and when she is not making paper sculptures. She works on making copper pipe sculptures. So stop on by and check out here portfolio.






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Peter Root who had 40 hours on his hands took 100,000 staples and made the Ephemicropolis. His city of staples covered a floor area of 600x300cm. The stacks of staples were broken into varying sizes from full stacks about 12cm high down to single stapes. Then placed in various stacks. I could only imagine the patience you needed to take the time to stack them and take them apart and arrange them. If you want check out more of his work on his site.

Yes! You are correct these are made from toilet paper rolls. They were created by Junior Fritz Jacquest. The faces of these fictional characters are first sculpted by hand and then coated with shellac and different pigments. What cracks me up about these sculptures though is that they all look like faces of people taking a number 2 or George Bush. Either way its funny but at the same time awesome that someone used such creativity to make these.





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I rarely ever do a post about furniture but this piece I couldn't pass up. The Kinesis Chair and Ottoman created by Thos. Moser. He has designed a chair with a matching ottoman that is not just a chair but a sculpted piece of art. The collection, called Kinesis, features a chair with a sensuous seatback and arms; the sleek lines look as if they would be at home in a Porsche. I'm sure your wondering at this point how much does this sweet chair cost. Well I will tell you. Upholstered in a natural cowhide or soft suede-like cloth these are your choices. The Walnut color will run you $7,350.00 and matching ottoman will run you $2,425.00 for a total of $9,775.00. I know I couldn't afford it but it's still nice to look at. I have added video below where David Moser talks about how his design came to be.





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This guy has some skill when it comes to manipulating paper. The time it takes for each piece is no 5 minute job for him. Sometimes it can take almost a whole day or more to complete one project. As an artist, Brian Chan was particularly drawn to Origami because it adds the extra challenge of folding from a square and incorporates a lot of geometry, which was his more favored sector of mathematics. I have added some of the ones I thought were cool below but check out his site to see what else he has created.

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