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Gavin Worth’s Steel Wire Sculptures

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Multi-faceted artist Gavin Worth makes his beautiful sculptures out of steel wire by bending them into “freestanding line drawings.” His sculptures are a testament to his mastery over the human form, and he has the ability to coax out stories and emotions from cold steel.

Seen above is “Thirst”, his first large scale metal work, which was commissioned by the town of Matha, France. The anamorphic piece changes its shape depending on the angle from which it is viewed from. The piece is installed on the top of a public fountain, and is meant to emphasize the importance of water in our lives.

Gavin was born in Zimbabwe, and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He lived in San Francisco for 8 years, before moving Cairo, Egypt, where he is currently based in.

Hit the jump to watch a short video of the making of process of his latest piece, and also a few images of his artworks.

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Read more about the article Retro Cool Art Prints Based on Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Retro Cool Art Prints Based on Hitchcock’s Vertigo

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The Spoke Art gallery has released two new screen prints by artists Chuck Sperry and Sam Smith, which were commissioned by the historic, San-Francisco-based Castro Theatre for its weekend’s screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”. The limited edition prints will be available at the theater today, September 1st 2012, for the attendees of the screenings.

The prints can also be bought online at Spoke Art’s site.

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Read more about the article Paul White’s Stunning Pencil Drawings

Paul White’s Stunning Pencil Drawings

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Melbourne-based artist Paul White’s illustrations are currently being exhibited at his “Wasteland Wanderlust” show in the Metro Gallery in Victoria, Australia.

The implied silence in Paul White’s works is almost deafening. His illustrations of decrepit vehicles and machines are set in stark, desolate landscapes, and seem to have been painted with almost a religious reverence to detail and composition.  The artist has based his drawings on photographs he took during a research trip throughout California and Arizona, last year.

There is an eerie silence in Paul White’s gently rendered imagery, an unspoken melancholia, as though the entire world has been ceased via a pause button. But the sheer lack of movement of machines designed for transit is only a part of it.

Where are the people?

White’s world is one of stasis. The trailer home, the railway freight car, the dismembered planes are all captured with a stillness that borders on the uncanny. One is, to an extent, reminded of the cinematic scenes in films like Silent Running, I Am Legend and The Omega Man where humanity has, quite simply, vanished.

Paul says that he is currently based in Australia, but has previously lived in Los Angeles while completing an MFA in Art at the California Institute of the Arts. The “Wasteland Wanderlust” will be on show at the Metro Gallery until 8 September, 2012.

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Cross-Section Illustration of a Portal Sentry Turret

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Australian artist Alex Gabbott made this cross-section illustration to show us what’s inside those annoyingly-deadly Sentry Turrets from the Portal 2 game. Unlike his previous cross-section piece–Bob’s Burgers–which was mostly digitally-painted, Gabbott wanted this piece to be as authentic as the ones in the Incredible Cross Section books. He drew and painted this piece mostly by hand, with some additional post processing on the computer.

Snip from the description of the creative process:

I got 185gm hot-pressed watercolour paper, which I then cut to A3. Prior to painting, I constructed a solid animation lightbox for about $70AUD, which I then used to trace my rough layout onto the watercolour paper. I then inked it, then painted it in watercolour paint. Because it is inspired by a video game, I was able to use Valve’e 3D model viewer to make it as accurate as possible. The final step was to scan it in, clean it up, and add annotations and shadows.

You can buy prints and T-shirts of the illustration, here and here.

You can watch a timelapse video of the entire ‘making of’ process, after the jump.

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