Daniel Essig. By Daniel Essig Asheville, North Carolina: Daniel Essig, 2011. One-of-a-kind. 9.5" X 12" x 16" open; 7.5" x 12" x 18" closed. Closed, this piece resembles a sort of a large, aberrant sea urchin that has nails instead of spines and rests on several elongated nail-legs. The "urchin body" is a book of thick wooden boards with a sewn Ethiopian binding. These 'leg' nails come from both boards of the book, so that when open the book rests on the longer nails coming from both boards. Open, the boards of this nail book turn out to be two carved and painted mahogany boxes attached by a sewn Ethiopian spine. Sculpture? Daniel Essig: "Inspired by African n'kisi nkondi figures from the Kongo, also known as nail figures or power figures.
"The piece is designed to stay open, but book can be closed. "The object on the left is a fulgarite tube created when lightning hits a beach or desert; the small books have positive/negative board attachments, the darker book is charred. Galleries Nina Kuriloff. Www.ninakuriloff.com. ROGUE TAXIDERMY. Blog. I thought it would be fun to do another post about process. Here is a personal illustration and the steps leading to it. The finished illustration. This is where we're headed. Here I'm laying down thoughts as quickly as possible. I start with an image in mind. I'm dealing with the story and the mood first. I want to find an arrangement that is appealing as an abstract pattern and effective as a narrative. At this point I'm starting to describe materials (trees, snow) and creating a varied surface. This step deals mostly with the foreground. I'm finally down to painting the central figure.
I've decided to redraw the figure. Just a few changes here. Finished! Thats it!
ConceptArt.org. DjahaL - Concept artist, Matte Painter. Crazy Photography by Shawn Van Daele. Shawn Van Daele is a photographer from Toronto Canada who loves to explore the possibilities of photography with photo manipulation. He is known for his creative projects The Drawing Hope and Walk Off The Earth, in which he created crazy and some surreal pictures with his crazy ideas. View the website. Tuomaskorpi.com. Art by COPiO.