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Portraits Constructed Out of Unconventional Materials

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Does the texture bring more life to the subject? Does the material used by the artist somehow make a statement about either the life of the person depicted, the artist's or the public's feelings about them? Mosaic portraits are relatively familiar to us. From what I can tell, the most popular famous person to be done in portraits appears to be the great Dolly Parton. I've seen her in jelly beans, chocolate and a few times in embroidery.

The Jelly Belly jellybean portrait created by Peter Rocha of President Reagan shortly after his death got quite a bit of press. It didn't do the candy maker any harm, either. Many of the children in our lives have taken construction paper, glue and macaroni and created images that we lovingly agreed looked just like us.

There's something especially captivating about going from the specific to the big picture. And when it's a portrait, this idea fits even more. People are made up of experiences, of ideas, likes and dislikes, moods, favorite colors, songs, personality quirks. The mosaic suits the portrait just right, but so often we find ourselves locked into the flat photograph or painted portrait. They're wonderful and often they're exactly what's needed for an occasion. Sometimes, something more creative is called for.

What kind of avatar are you using on something like Facebook? A photo or something else? What does your avatar say about you and why did you choose it?

Desmond has his barrow in the market place...
Molly is the singer in a band...
Desmond says to Molly "Girl, I like your face"
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand...
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah!...
Lala how the life goes on...
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah!...
Lala how the life goes on.

Rocha photo from SFGate.com

Contents at a Glance

  1. It's the Little Things: Buttons, Acrylic Fingernails
  2. Portrait Artists :: Links
  3. Rachael Ray explores Food Art
  4. Making Faces: Playful Portraits of People You Know Hanoch Piven
  5. Jason Mecier on Art or Not?
  6. Beatles Lego, Mosaic,Spoons, Vintage eBay
  7. ProjectArt Portrait Of A Lady Cross-Body
  8. Buttons, Fingernails, Jelly Beans, Mosaics
  9. Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes
  10. Materials present conservation problems?
  11. Special Handmade Faces and Custom Portraits
  12. The Inspirational Dolly Parton
  13. Muhammad Ali Sculpture Made Out of 1300 Punching Bags
  14. reALIze Intro Video artist Michael Kalish
  15. Engraved Portraits
  16. Glass Photo Coasters: coaster, a picture frame, a favor and table decoration
  17. 3-D Portrait of You :: Bubble Gum :: Rubik's Cube
  18. Customized Cartoon Cookies
  19. Dragon for Sale
  20. Jason Mecier meets Tammy Faye
  21. Wire and Glitter
  22. Copper Pennies: Honoring our Presidents...
  23. Etch-a-Sketch, Chocolate, Spaghetti Sauce, Pumpkins, Jell-O
  24. Tutorials / Classes
  25. Do you work in unconventional materials? Would you like one of these portraits?

It's the Little Things: Buttons, Acrylic Fingernails

Image of Lisa Kokin's work from her web site

Portrait Artists :: Links

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Sally Heller | Pin-up Girls

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Jo Hamilton: Crochet Portraits

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Lisa Kokin :: Portfolio :: Buttonworks

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Binh Danh: Ancestral Altars : chlorophyll portraits

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Featherlady Studio:  wildlife art  by Northwest artist Julie Thompson

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Michael Aaron McAllister: Embroidered Portrait Quilts 2006

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Rachael Ray explores Food Art

The July 28, 2010 Rachael Ray Show featured a segment on food art.

See a YouTube clip from the show below.

Making Faces: Playful Portraits of People You Know Hanoch Piven

Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA Summer 2010

Making Faces: Playful Portraits of People You Know March 10-July 11, 2010

From the web site:
"On display are sixteen large-scale photographs of some of Piven's most memorable celebrity caricatures along with a selection of original collage sculptures. Created from everyday items-such as bananas, toy trucks, screws, Barbie® dolls, articles of clothing, and light bulbs-Piven's whimsical yet highly recognizable portraits of public figures offer an incisive and often irreverent perspective on celebrity and American popular culture."

Of special note is that Mr. Piven led a Making Faces: Playful Portraits Art Workshop in March

"In this one-day workshop, award-winning Israeli graphic artist Hanoch Piven will show students how to "draw with objects" and to explore the relationship everyday items-everything from bananas and screws to light bulbs and toy trucks-and the personality of the subject you wish to portray. Leave with a finished product worthy of any refrigerator door! "

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Jason Mecier on Art or Not?

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Beatles Lego, Mosaic,Spoons, Vintage eBay

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ProjectArt Portrait Of A Lady Cross-Body

ProjectArt Portrait Of A Lady Cross-Body

PROJECTART creates shoes and bags that serve as wearable works of art.

Wouldn't you love to carry a wearable work of art? Then sling this PROJECTART bag over your shoulder. If you prefer a take-along masterpiece, it has the pretty print to suit.

materials:

* Synthetic
* Polyester lining

measurements:

* 11" high
* 10.5" wide
* 2" deep
* 21.5" shoulder drop

item details:

* Zipper closure

Buttons, Fingernails, Jelly Beans, Mosaics

Ray Materson is a nationally renowned, self-taught artist. He makes Custom Embroidered Portraits. We're working on getting a link to his page that will be functional.
Jellybean mosaicist Peter Rocha
Jelly Belly Candy Company - Official Site. Features Factory fresh candy, jelly beans, chocolate, gummy, licorice and more. From an article in Stuff Magazine: "The artist, who immortalized such celebrities as Laurel and Hardy and Queen Elizabeth in his Jelly-bean portraits, died on April 20 at the age of 65. Each of his portraits used about 15,000 beans, and his Ronald Reagan piece hangs in the Ronald Reagan Library."
Scratching the surface of new media: False fingernails in artwork, fashion : Blog post
Make tight fists and squeeze. Stretch your fingers. Repeat. Aaaaah. Look down at your hands. You may be wearing them right now! I'm talking about fingernails. Fake acrylic fingernails.
mosaic-art melonheadgallery Laura Harris : Flickr
...More recently, Laura has concentrated on mosaic portrait art. She uses a direct method of application whereas each piece of tesserae is permanently adhered to a substrate. After sketching out a design, each individual piece of tesserae is hand cut to create unique mosaics. Her tesserae include venetian and dichroic glass, 24 Kt. Italian gold smalti, porcelain, ceramic tile, mirror, stone and salvaged or recycled materials. Laura's work has been compared to some of the great European mosaic artists of the 21st century. ...
Portraits Done in Unconventional Materials: Your Face Can Stand Out in the Crowd :: The blog post that inspired this lens
A blog post with examples of portraits done in unconventional materials
kristen cumings: Jelly Belly® bean art
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paintings and Jelly Belly bean art
Whitney Lee: Made With Sweet Love
Sexy latch-hook kits made by artist Whitney Lee. Sultry photographic rugs of stylish and self-confident women of all shapes, sizes, and ethnicities.

Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes

Making children's lunches fun!

Check out the book Face Food:The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes

"All across Japan, parents come up with unique ways to bring attention to their children's lunch boxes. And what better way to make children eat than to turn their midday meals into a cartoon? With Face Food, Christopher D Salyers documents the very real phenomenon of crafting food into visually creative and appealing forms, such as Pikachu, Daraemon and Cinderella, bringing health, heart and imagination to the bento box.

"How-to guides and articles by designers and chefs accompany photographs, all of which illuminate the dynamic reasons behind this wholly Japanese pursuit."

Face Food Recipes See Spiderman, Japanese Anime characters, step-by-step graphics.

"Face Food Recipes builds on the already successful Face Food by giving the public what it has been asking for most: descriptive how-to guides for making charaben bentos at home! Face Food Recipes pairs each bento with an illustrated guide, in Paint-by-Numbers style, showing the reader how to assemble these adorable little visual lunches.

"With ingredient lists, cooking and preparation instructions, a how-to glossary covering basic Japanese bento terms and even a fancy ribbon page marker, American moms and dads will be able to mimic these designs (or have tons of fun trying)."

Materials present conservation problems?

Smithsonian Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Art Conservation

If you scroll to the bottom of the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum's very interesting podcasts page to arrive at /podcast_221.mp4, Monday, February 01, 2010, you'll find a discussion about current museum conservation techniques directly associated with artists' new-found materials.

"Latex, chocolate, soap, and video game software are just a few of the non-traditional materials that have inspired contemporary artists. While they embrace the modern, synthetic and technologically advanced world in which we live, some of materials present significant conservation problems for museum conservators.

"Gwynne Ryan, a conservator at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden discusses the challenges museums face with this issue: Should we keep art locked away to make it last? Or let it be experienced as it was intended while accelerating its natural degradation?"

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Special Handmade Faces and Custom Portraits

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Custom Portrait in fiber/mixed media by sarahbrown on Etsy

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Lego Mosaic Custom Portrait Birthdays Weddings Holidays by motion5

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Custom Stained Glass Mosaic Portrait 8x10 by KendraH on Etsy

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Ugandan girl wool painting by Kruser on Etsy

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Needlepoint Portrait Patterns: M&R Technologies PCStitch 7

Knit, crochet, embroidery etc here

M&R Technologies PCStitch 7

* Create and use borders for your patterns, or embellish them with beads
* Design your own custom stitches and measure your pattern with the enhanced Grid Design Rulers
* Import/underlay function lets you add any graphic image or file to a grid -- add your own stitches to create a unique pattern
* Redesigned Floss Palette Interface, for easier removing and blending -- and an added Floss List adds to the design potential
* Grid Shortcuts help you decide what changes to make with a mouseclick, instead of going to a menu or changing your drawing mode

'The Portrait Reconsidered'

Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California

* While this exhibition has ended, when I last checked the web page(s) were still available. In the interest of supporting the artists and getting the information out there, I'm leaving this entry on the page. Please note that this show was to have ended on March 6, 2010.

Meridian Gallery San Francisco, through March 6, 2010
The Meridian Gallery San Francisco, CA

Featuring artists JD Beltran, Jim Campbell, Gigi Janchang and Marion Gray

Unexpected Reflections: Artist's Panel Discussion The four artists of Unexpected Reflections: The Portrait Reconsidered will be in conversation with curator Terri Cohn about their work and the broader questions of portraiture in the 21st century.

Coincides with Unexpected Reflections: The Portrait Reconsidered at Meridian Gallery through March 6th. The artists of are examining "what a portrait is" in the contemporary moment.

Utilizing photography, video and other media in the three floors of site-specific installation created for this show, these artists are interrogating not only how we represent ourselves now, but what is signaled for the future. Curated by Terri Cohn.

The gallery will be having other events such as a February 20th screening of the 2000 film, The Day I Became a Woman. It is an award-winning Iranian film drected by Marzieh Meshkini. There will also be a conversation between curator Terri Cohn and artist Teranhe Hemami about portaiture in a global context.

The Inspirational Dolly Parton

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HELLO DOLLY!!! ...and a happy birthday to you! Embroidery Jan. 19. 2010 I Sew Cute... and draw pretty nifty also!
I've been stitching like crazy the last couple of days. This is from a pattern/drawing I had done. I embroidered it in black DMC 310 floss with the strands varying in different parts. Most of it was stitched with 3 strands. The fabric is a pink cotton printed with glitter. I LOVE this fabric & it just felt right to do my Dolly Parton embroidery on.
JENNY HART: Portrait Embroidery
Jenny Hart (b. 1972 in Iowa City, IA) is an artist based in Austin, Texas. She is also the founder Sublime Stitching, a design company launched in 2001 to revitalize the craft of hand embroidery.

Muhammad Ali Sculpture Made Out of 1300 Punching Bags

photo by Jon Davis, Laughing Squid

reALIze Intro Video artist Michael Kalish

reALIze, a new conceptual and thought-provoking monument, is the result of a three-year creative journey that began when internationally lauded artist Michael Kalish was approached by Lonnie and Muhammad Ali to create a private original sculpture for them from Kalish's signature license plate art collection.
This experience provided the inspiration for Kalish to undertake the epic task of creating reALIze. The monument is larger than life, as is Ali's legacy: an appropriate testament to the essence of the legend the world has come to know, simply, as "The Greatest."
The breath-taking effect is an enormous, 360-degree, two-story structure composed of five miles of stainless steel, two miles of aluminum tubing, and 1300 boxing speed bags. Viewed from nearly every angle, the result appears to be a massive, boxing-inspired rainstorm -- but find the exact right position, and it unexpectedly becomes a 2-D vision of the timeless face of Muhammad Ali. .... -- From YouTube description
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Engraved Portraits

Engraved Portraits print
Engraved Portraits by engravedstone
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Glass Photo Coasters: coaster, a picture frame, a favor and table decoration

Glass Photo Coasters: coaster, a picture frame, a favor and table decoration

It's a coaster, a picture frame, a favor, and table decoration. This item does it all!

Great for Christmas gifts, presents for folks far away. Party favors, thank-you gifts to employees.

Any event where photos were taken such as a conference or club get-together, these would be a wonderful surprise parting gift to participants.

Here are just a few ideas for incorporating the glass photo coasters into your next event:

* Use them as escort cards by inserting cards with guests' names and table numbers.

* Indicate assigned seating by laying a coaster at each setting with the guest's picture. They'll find out their table number and then find their seats by looking for their own photo.

* Outfit the coasters with photos of you and your fiancé with friends and family and scatter them around the cocktail reception hall for guests to rest their drinks. Stack the extras by the door and encourage guests to take home as favors.

Each coaster measures 3.5" x 3.5" and glass is approximately 0.13" thick. Photo opening measures 1.75" x 2". Rubber stoppers at each corner on the bottom keeps the glass from scratching tabletops.

Sold in sets of 2. Each set is gift wrapped in a clear box and tied with white organdy ribbon so that they are ready to go as party favors. Each coaster comes with an insert that reads "For You".

3-D Portrait of You :: Bubble Gum :: Rubik's Cube

ThatsMyFace - See your face in 3D & Buy gifts with personalized faces
Custom Action Figures, Wearable Facemasks, 3-D Portraits from photographs. ThatsMyFace - Custom Action Figures and Masks from your face
Rubik's Cube Artwork at WomansDay.com - Rubik Cubisim Art
Check out photos of artwork made from Rubik's Cubes at WomansDay.com.
Betty Milliken
Betty Milliken was born in Michigan to Hungarian immigrant parents. She has always had an interest in portraiture, but favors rather unconventional materials: chewing gum, caulking compound, dried grapefruit peel and styrofoam meat trays!

Customized Cartoon Cookies

Customized Cartoon Cookies

Want a one-of-a-kind favor that will make your guests giggle with glee and drool in delight? Then these custom cartoon cookies are perfect for your next event.

Each delicious cookie is designed to look just like a caricature of you or that special someone. All you need to do is submit a picture and we'll turn your likeness into fresh-baked goodness. Cookie favors arrive in a plastic gift bag topped with a ribbon.

Completing the picture perfect package is a customized sticker label on the back of each bag printed with your name(s) and date of the event or your own unique message. Each bag comes with six cookies. Cookies may also be purchased individually without packaging

Your face on an Action Figure -- That's My Face!

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Dragon for Sale

Dragon for Sale bag
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Jason Mecier meets Tammy Faye

Jason Mecier's Tammy Faye portrait

From his facebook page: "Jason Mecier is an American mosaic artist using everyday items -- including food -- to immortalize and memorialize his favorite pop culture icons."

Wire and Glitter

Wire Portraits :: p o l y s c e n e - Polly Verity - Wire Sculpture
Wire Sculpture by Polly Verity Miniature mythological creatures are made in fine bent wire. Polly has been working in wire for over ten years now. These wire sculptures describe the outline of the object and are worked up like a 3D wireframe model for a computer game. Although the artist sometimes....
Wire Portraits :: World Class Wire Sculpture by Elizabeth Berrien - Portraits in Wire, Part 3
Elizabeth Berrien entices the spirits of special animals and humans into vividly accurate 2d and 3d wire sculpture portraits of equines, felines, dog and wildlife.
Glitter Portraits :: Rene Garcia, Jr., "tomcat" - a glitter artist
Rene Garcia, Jr. is a glitter artist. "The artist believes glitter endows his work with unique qualities that traditional materials cannot. It not only adds depth and dimention, but demands interface -- if it isn't possible to capture or reproduce the manner in which glitter sparkles' it can only be experienced firsthand." -- Soma Magazine

Glittering Presidents

Hot tips on working with glitter

Take one US president, add glitter.

"Not only was Abraham Lincoln the tallest president the US has ever had, after my sister Hope Perkins got through with him he was also the most sparkly. Today is the big guys birthday and to celebrate here on I Love to Create we are going to take a little trip down memory lane. Stitch Fashion Show and Craft Bazaar 2007 at the Austin Convention Center my sister Hope Perkins of Hot Pink Pistol teamed up with Tulip Fashion Glitter and Abe never looked better." -- Jennifer Perkins

Text and image from Perkins' Naughty Secretary Club

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You probably know Jennifer Perkins from the show, 'Craft Lab'

The Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girl's Guide to Handmade Jewelry

Join The Naughty Secretary Club!

If you prefer your jewelry subtle and serious, you might want to go ahead and set this book back on the shelf. However, if kitschy accessories made with a wink and a smile are your cup of tea, this book will have you on the edge of your chair.

The Naughty Secretary Club is packed with more than 50 kitschy-secretary-themed jewelry projects, plus lots of quirky sidebars covering hot topics such as office romance and the best secretary theme songs to listen to on your lunch break. You'll learn how to use your office supplies in a whole new way - did you know standard office fare, like binder folders and shredded junk mail, makes craftalicious jewelry? Plus, author Jennifer Perkins will teach you how to turn almost anything into a charm, including plastic gnome cake toppers, doll furniture and cast-off hotel keys.

Whatever your day job, you can be a Naughty Secretary in spirit - and in style. So cancel your afternoon meetings, take a break from watching the clock and send yourself a memo to whip up a new paperclip necklace just in time for happy hour!

About the Author
Jennifer Perkins left her job as a secretary to return to her childhood love of jewelry-making. Her Naughty Secretary Club jewelry has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Teen Vogue, The New York Times, Elle Girl, Alternative Press, Bust, Seventeen and more. Jennifer is the host of Craft Lab and Stylelicious (both on the DIY network) and has been a guest on Craft Corner Death Match and Knitty Gritty. She has a pronounced craft following in addition to a highly visted blog and Web site, www.naughtysecretaryclub.com. -- Amazon

Copper Pennies: Honoring our Presidents...

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Binh Danh

Binh Danh was a perfect choice to include in an exhibition titled Reconstructing Memories.

"Danh is not a photographer in the conventional sense -- instead he works from an existing archive of photographs depicting the war's many victims that he collects from various sources. Once he finds an appropriate image, he uses digital technology to make a negative transfer. From there, his work takes on a decidedly organic quality.

"A lifelong interest in science primed the young artist to invent his own development process, which he coined chlorophyll prints. Danh begins by gathering leaves from his garden. Then he takes his negative image transfer and places it over a leaf, sandwiching the items between two sheets of glass. The arrangement is laid in the sun for a period of time (days or even weeks) until the ghostly visage appears. If it meets his approval, he then fixes the leaf in resin. According to the artist, this form of photography mirrors the continuing cycle of nature." -- from KQED Spark episode about Danh's work

Vic Muniz: Chocolate, Jam, Thread...

Independent Lens . WORST POSSIBLE ILLUSION: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz | PBS
"I draw with sugar. I draw with wire, thread, things that are very bad to make representations... I don't want people to simply see a representation of something. I want them to feel how it happens. The moment of that embodiment is what I consider a spiritual experience." -- Vik Muniz
galerie xippas, Paris - Muniz exhibition through Saturday February 13, 2010
Vik Muniz's photographs appear to be made by a magician or a virtuoso, where the manipulations seem at first to have nothing to do with the medium of photography. Working with incongruous materials-thread, jam, chocolate syrup, ketchup, dust, toys, pigment, etc-chosen for their relationship to the image that they depict, Vik Muniz reconstructs images taken from art history or the media, images that belong to our visual collective history and that always resemble the memory we have of them.

These images are then photographed in order to renounce the origins from which they spring and thus creating an illusory representation: from the best-known 19th century landscapes recreated with thread, to the fetishized images by Warhol recreated in chocolate, from the "Pictures of Dust" made for Vik's exhibition at the Whitney Museum, to the "Pictures of Color" and the "Pictures of Air" shown at the Venice Biennale, to the images in diamonds and caviar of the series "Diamond Divas" and "Caviar Monsters"%u2026 the allusions are varied, the illusions are complete.

Etch-a-Sketch, Chocolate, Spaghetti Sauce, Pumpkins, Jell-O

Seemingly Temporary Portraits

Etch-a-Sketch, Chocolate, Spaghetti Sauce, Pumpkins, Jell-O
Etch-A-Sketchist: The New Deal
A lot of people ask me if I do portraits. Back in the day I used to do them for free. After awhile, I got sick of that and just let them pile up in my gmail box. I still accept submissions for free portraits but it's very rare that I do them. Basically the picture you send in has to be better than anything else I can come up with. But I am more than willing to do a piece like the one above for the low low price of $10. Just drop a ten-spot in the Paypal tip jar link over there on the left and send in your jpeg (the higher resolution, the better) and I'll whip it out with in a week. I'll email you the hi-res image and you can do whatever you like with it. So that's my new deal.
The amazing portraits of TV favourites made entirely from food : Spaghetti Sauce
All portraits are drawn from fine chalk pastels and created by a photograph that you can send through email. Your portrait can be a single person or two people. One portrait usually takes between 1-3 weeks. Below, I have included examples of different styles of work you might consider. Artwork celebrating some of the nation's favourite television programmes was unveiled today - with the exhibits made entirely from food.
Creating Chocolate Masterpieces - American Profile
Artist Jean Wertz, 51, bends over a canvas inside her Lebanon, Pa., studio, skillfully guiding her brush to re-create Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night. Of course, Wertz's version of the 19th-century masterpiece excites not just the eyes, but the sense of smell as well. Instead of working with oil-based paints, Wertz uses chocolate that's colored with food coloring and thinned with lemon juice and vodka to offer lighter tones and shades. Her canvas is white chocolate that she's handcrafted to look like fabric.
Custom Jack-o-Lanterns Un-Halloween Custom Carved Pumpkins and Patterns
Custom carved permanent foam pumpkins. Great for your company logo or a portrait of you or your pet! Custom Pumpkin Patterns and Pumpkin Carvings Available Great for Businesses (Logos), Wedding Centerpieces, or Special Unique Gifts
Custom Jack-o-Lanterns People or Pet Portraits : Services
Custom carved pumpkins, Jack-O-Lanterns, pumpkin carving patterns. Pumpkin carver for hire- carving all year for home, business, weddings, movie/theater props. For a really unique Jack-O-Lantern, check out these photo-realistic pumpkin portraits of famous people, movie stars, and pets. Imagine the expression of your Trick-or-Treaters when they see a pumpkin portrait come to life!
JELL-O HEAD artist andrewsalomone.com Bill Cosby
The portrait of Bill Cosby made out of JELL-O shots went off without a hitch last night at Buoy Gallery. Here are a few pictures of what went down

Tutorials / Classes

How-To: Photo to Fabric Portrait
Stephanie the Multi-Tasking Mama is guest blogging on Crafty Chica, where she shows us how to convert a photo of a beloved pet into a fabric portrait suitable for a stocking or even framing!
Betty Milliken ; Chewing Gum Portraits Lesson Plan
She gave direction in a 2003 interview with the Grassroots Art Center from Lucas, KS, as to exactly how it's done: "Make Sure you have CLEANED YOUR TEETH!!" It's important not to have any leftover food particles in your mouth, as it will get transferred into the gum while chewing and making the material hard to work with. So, optimum time to mention dental hygene! First, chew all the sugar out of the gum. ...
Faux Wood Dog Portrait : Decorating : Home & Garden Television
Amy Turner creates her faux wood dog portrait with wood-grain Contact paper. Tutorial from HGTV's Creative Juice
Oh Dolly | Sublime Stitching
P9062309.JPGDolly Parton drawstring bag, made by request for a friend who is a huge fan. Not as good as Jenny's portrait but manageable for me. Handmade the bag out of yellow faux bois cotton.
StarWars.com | Bossk Bean Art Portrait
Bossk Bean Art Portrait
Traci Bunkers, Bonkers Handmade Originals
Traci Bunkers - Gift Certificates Spinning Fiber Rubber Stamps & Stuff Yarn Buttons, Magnets & Mirrors Handmade Books & Journals Grommets for CD Spindles Fun Packs Ephemera Packs Postcards Custom Visual Journal Pages Stuffed Creatures Patterns Zines Hand-Printed Moleskines Workshops Ponytail Dreadlo
Sublime Stitching: Portrait Class - Sold Out! | Sublime Stitching
PORTRAIT CLASS with Jenny Hart at MAKE WORKSHOP, NYC W/F/M 12/14, 16 & 19 6:30-8:30pm *THIS CLASS HAS SOLD OUT* For years I have been asked how I make my embroidered portraits. This will be a series of three, 2-hour classes where I'll guide you

Mickalene Thomas at Lehman Maupin

Douglas Kelley, New York art world commentator, visits Mickalene Thomas' first NY exhibit

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