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Using natural tones, the successful Australian brand produces wall hangings that incorporate Merino wool, rope, seashells, pebbles, and clay beads. Sisters Lauren and Kass Hernandez are Crossing Threads, and together they are known for their woven fiber art. Read more: Vibrant 3D Embroidered Landscapes Celebrate the Beauty of Cloudy Skies Shimunia's Instagram shows off her compact landscapes, which burst with color and demonstrate the incredible variety of hues found in the natural world. Working on small hoops, Shimunia works tirelessly to make a big impact with her ocean scenes, mountainscapes, and sunsets that are accented with fluffy clouds. Russian embroidery artist Vera Shimunia is making a name for herself with her spectacular embroidered landscapes. Read more: Designer Uses Real Botanicals to Create Beautiful Floral Letter ArtĪ post shared by шимуня on at 9:27am PDT Vera Shimunia She's shares what she's learned thus far in a special tutorial on floral typography and she occasionally does giveaways via her Instagram. Prinku's technique of weaving natural elements through tulle is a work in progress, as she's constantly experimenting with what will yield the best results. Rather, the designer uses flowers and seeds (which she collects and dries herself) to create typographic wreaths.

Read more: Ingenious Hand-Embroidery Uses Cascading Thread to Mimic Flowing HairĪn interesting combination of a love of nature and design know-how, Olga Prinku‘s delicate hoop art isn't traditional embroidery at all. Follow along with her work via Instagram, where she also posts works in progress. A recent solo exhibition of her embroidery in Paris demonstrates just how seriously her creative output is being taken. Using black thread paired against natural fibers, Liam creates stunning figures that share quiet moments while braiding and styling their flowing locks. Liam artfully combines the two dimensional and three dimensional with her embroidered artwork that celebrates the beauty of hair. In 2011, Mitic debuted a paintings from the series, titled ‘Galaxy’ at The Koerner Hall in Toronto for a charity gala.Sheena Liam‘s 3D hoop art demonstrates the creative possibilities of embroidery. Rain series, first exhibited at a prominent Muramatsu Gallery in Tokyo, Japan in 2008.

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The mixture of natural elements and paint create a truly unique series that showcases the beauty of nature’s contribution to the world of art and enables an unusual physical interaction between the two. The entire series was painted outdoors with oil paint, pigment and acid rain. Mitic’s most recent series entitled ‘Rain ’ creates an interesting partnership between our environment and art. The project culminated in a show, documentary film and a book titled ‘Art or War’. Kennedy, he painted portraits onto canvas and then used more than one million rounds of ammunition and various guns to outline them. Using both celebrities and religious figures, such as Marilyn Monroe, Jesus and John F. Moved by the destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan – ancient artwork created in the 6th century – Mitic makes a bold statement and uses a symbol of 21st century – a gun- as a method of creation. He has recently developed a distinctive, some would say provocative, method he paints portraits of international iconic images and later shoots the outline of the figures using various weapons and live ammunition. Mitic has successfully integrated various materials into his recent body of work: charcoal, graphite, oil, acrylic, watercolour, pen and ink, and japanese traditional natural pigment. For a number of years, he was painting non-representational paintings using natural elements such as rain and hail to render surfaces of the paintings in oils on canvas. Viktor Mitic, University of Toronto graduate artist, classically trained in art schools in Europe, Mitic has produced a major body of work that spans a career of over two decades.

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