Black Rhino
© Sophie Standing
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Sophie Standing creates her fauna and flora textile pieces by applying fabric to a canvas where her image is drawn out, she then uses a sewing machine to draw over the fabrics in many different threads to bring the material to life!
Secretary Bird
© Sophie Standing
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Chameleon
© Sophie Standing
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Pastorale
© Rebecca Stevenson
rebeccastevenson.net
Pastorale
© Rebecca Stevenson
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Rebecca Stevenson’s sculpture are so pretty! Using wax and resin she moulds these intricate flowers into the heads and bodies of animals.
These flowers are coloured to become the instant draw to her pieces. You can also marvel at how wonderfully accurate her wax sculpting is, enabling the viewer to easily identify the animal she’s worked to evoke and to appreciate the intricacy of each waxy petal.
Buttercup
© Rebecca Stevenson
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Roos
© Anna-Wili Highfield
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These beautiful sculptures are by the Australian artist Anna-Wili Highfield. She folds, tears and manipulates cotton paper before sewing it all together to capture the wild essence of her subject matter.
Fox
© Anna-Wili Highfield
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Springcolour
© Stefan Thompson
deviantart.com
Art doesn’t have to conform! The brilliance of Stefan Thompson is that his work is so strange, but so enticing and beautiful too. He also uses some interesting mediums like soot and beeswax to create his imagery. Springcolour was made by applying crayon to dry wax, and then scratching away to reveal the creature.
Bearhuggs
© Stefan Thompson
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The leopard crossing the river (纸本水墨 •过江豹)
© Hua Tunan (画图男)
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Breaking the Stone (墨破苍鹰。)
© Hua Tunan (画图男)
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The vibrant work of Hua Tunan, it’s pretty cool. He uses marker pens and ink to create his imagery.
I especially admire his bird illustrations, the drippy splatters of the ink really appeal to me.
He manages to apply the ink by using a piece of paper to shield the rest of the image away the source of the ink spray which allows for precision.
I practised this technique for the tail in my squirrel coffee painting, and it works quite nicely. Looking at work like this makes me wonder why I’m so reserved with my ink, maybe I won’t be in my next painting!
