Found art projects

The creative urge just won't go away..... that's what brings many people in mid life to OCA. Here Jane Perkins tells the story of her mid life conversion

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A broken CD isn't much good to anyone. Unless you're Sean Avery that is. Because while most of us would just throw them in the trash, the South Africa-born, Australia-based artist turns them into various dazzling animal sculptures. He makes them by gluing CD shards to wire mesh frames shaped like different animals, and as you can see from his iridescent animal kingdom, there seems to be no limit to the types of creatures he can create.

Found recyclable materials become art in the 3rd annual Recyclable Art Competition.

Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Dillon paints on found objects – stuff that passes for the fabric of the modern world. Alexandra’s pictures look like details from Old Master paintings, you know, those atomically-expensive classic works hedge fund managers who value art for its exponentially growing price lend to the museum for a ticket-holders only exhibition. You … Continue reading "Artist Alexandra Dillon Paints Classic Portraits On Everyday Objects"

A procedure for creating elaborate found-object mosaic sculptures that are well nested and optimal in terms of juxtaposition of different types of items.