According to Morgan, skateboarding also played a central role in his artistic upbringing. “Skateboarding actually got me back into my art about six years ago when I designed a bunch of skate graphics for my friend’s skate company called Crayon Skateboards,” he explains. “I always dreamed of one day seeing my art on a wizz plank.”

He took off from there, with his work soon attracting skate and surf companies alike, including Vans, Toy Machine, and Santa Cruz Skateboards. He has also caught the attention of more mainstream brands, collaborating with brands and publications like the Washington Post, Urban Outfitters, and Dr. Martens.

His work itself is varied, employing various techniques and mediums: anything from murals and installations to paintings and screen prints. There’s often an air of nostalgia to his work, with references to a time gone by and nods to punk rock icons like The Ramones, and Fugazi. There’s also a layer of humor in his work, which adds to its overall appeal.

“I try to add a lot of humor in my illustrations which I guess also reflects what type of person I am,” Morgan says. “I don’t take things too seriously.” This is the kind of creative attitude we want in our feed!

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According to Lyons, through his unique creative process, he developed a talent to visually dissect, reinterpret and then repurpose the materials found in his sculptures. Led by the materials themselves, it is the organic nature of many of the man-made objects he reclaims that serve as the initial inspiration for his work.

“I look for these shapes buried within objects,” Lyons explained somewhat poetically in a piece he published on Artsy Shark. “I then utilize these shapes and reinterpret them into the anatomical structures that make up the organic sculptures I create.”

“Creations from man-made objects discarded as refuse and reinterpreted to form objects found in nature are the inspirations for my art,” he adds on his website. “The simple spoon forms the body of a rainbow trout; a discarded children’s toy becomes the foundation for a moose; horseshoes transform into armadillos.”

His creations will inspire you to look for artistic potential in the mundane objects around you.

The post Jason Lyons Looks For Hidden Shapes Hidden in Everyday Objects appeared first on TettyBetty.

Using only glue to assemble his creations, with no supporting structure whatsoever, his sculptures take after man-made objects—anything from a phone and a typewriter to a life-size car.

“One of the reasons I am attracted by cardboard is that, although it can be an expensive material, people fail to notice it and just throw it away when buying an object, often slightly irritated at the thought of having to dispose of it,” writes Gilmour on his website.

He notes that there’s a widespread idea of having to leave our mark, of expressing our personality by buying this or that object that will best convey our originality. “Almost as if the consumer society had transformed even our personalities into something you can buy,” he reflects. His cardboard objects call attention, therefore, to the former products that might have been kept within them—a deflated shell that was reinflated.

“Cardboard is cheap and easy to find, and using simple tools and techniques it is possible to make almost anything,” notes Gilmour. He might be onto something…

The post The Remarkable Cardboard Sculptures of Chris Gilmour appeared first on TettyBetty.

The inspiration for his work came from a simple diagram of a bicycle. “In 2005, while living in Hong Kong, I came across an exploded diagram of a bicycle on the back of a magazine,” he writes in his website. “I was inspired by its fragile beauty, and imagined a three-dimensional version with a real object.”

Inspired by that initial bicycle image, the subjects Peralta chooses for his “Mechanations” series are icons of utility and invention. “I also like to think they hold memories that we’ve long forgotten,” he writes. “They’ve watched generations pass; recorded every scene, love letter, and document. Each image, word, and note is permanently imprinted on them.”

In order to expose the inner workings of his chosen objects, he developed his own techniques for suspension. Having received no formal training in the arts, it wasn’t until his thirties that he found his creative voice. His influences include cubist artists like Metzinger and Picasso, as well as surrealist artist Storm Thorgerson. But his sculptures, we have to admit, look like nothing we’ve ever seen.

The post John A. Peralta Deconstructs Iconic Objects and Machines appeared first on TettyBetty.

A recent series of hers has seen cylindrical stoneware vessels, carved with iconography – something that could be found, perhaps, in the archeological museums of the future.

Switching between painting and sculpting, Little admits that diversity keeps her inspired and also helps her manage her time better. “For me, I get a bit stir crazy so bouncing between the two mediums helps break up my time,” the Colorado-based artist told Art of Choice. “Typically I will work in one medium for a period of months and then switch, with that amount of time you can sort of get somewhere with something, and also get to the point where you are yearning for the other thing and start to build anticipation for the shift.”

“And then on the viewing end, I think paintings and sculptures operate really differently so it really opens things up for me,” she adds. “I can do things with a sculpture that may be really specifically about painting, but all the specificity of a 3-dimension object really alters the content (like its relationship to the viewer, body, the material of the clay itself, etc.) which is really exciting for me.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

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When almost everyone sees the pits of avocado as trash, Irish artist
Jan Campbell sees them as a form of art. She formed a niche by sculpting pits.

This talented artist refers to her avocado pits as stones. She treats the stones like precious marble as she uses them to create Celtic folklore inspired totems. There are so many uses for the art pieces. Some are worn as pendants and resemble miniature totems of forest spirits. They also give off a calming vibe when you look at them.

Scroll below to see some of Jan’s beautiful carved totems from her Instagram page.

The post Artist Creates Carved Totems with Avocado Pits appeared first on TettyBetty.

According to Morgan, skateboarding also played a central role in his artistic upbringing. “Skateboarding actually got me back into my art about six years ago when I designed a bunch of skate graphics for my friend’s skate company called Crayon Skateboards,” he explains. “I always dreamed of one day seeing my art on a wizz plank.”

He took off from there, with his work soon attracting skate and surf companies alike, including Vans, Toy Machine, and Santa Cruz Skateboards. He has also caught the attention of more mainstream brands, collaborating with brands and publications like the Washington Post, Urban Outfitters, and Dr. Martens.

His work itself is varied, employing various techniques and mediums: anything from murals and installations to paintings and screen prints. There’s often an air of nostalgia to his work, with references to a time gone by and nods to punk rock icons like The Ramones, and Fugazi. There’s also a layer of humor in his work, which adds to its overall appeal.

“I try to add a lot of humor in my illustrations which I guess also reflects what type of person I am,” Morgan says. “I don’t take things too seriously.” This is the kind of creative attitude we want in our feed!

The post Keep Calm and Skate On with Phil Morgan appeared first on TettyBetty.

According to Lyons, through his unique creative process, he developed a talent to visually dissect, reinterpret and then repurpose the materials found in his sculptures. Led by the materials themselves, it is the organic nature of many of the man-made objects he reclaims that serve as the initial inspiration for his work.

“I look for these shapes buried within objects,” Lyons explained somewhat poetically in a piece he published on Artsy Shark. “I then utilize these shapes and reinterpret them into the anatomical structures that make up the organic sculptures I create.”

“Creations from man-made objects discarded as refuse and reinterpreted to form objects found in nature are the inspirations for my art,” he adds on his website. “The simple spoon forms the body of a rainbow trout; a discarded children’s toy becomes the foundation for a moose; horseshoes transform into armadillos.”

His creations will inspire you to look for artistic potential in the mundane objects around you.

The post Jason Lyons Looks For Hidden Shapes Hidden in Everyday Objects appeared first on TettyBetty.

Using only glue to assemble his creations, with no supporting structure whatsoever, his sculptures take after man-made objects—anything from a phone and a typewriter to a life-size car.

“One of the reasons I am attracted by cardboard is that, although it can be an expensive material, people fail to notice it and just throw it away when buying an object, often slightly irritated at the thought of having to dispose of it,” writes Gilmour on his website.

He notes that there’s a widespread idea of having to leave our mark, of expressing our personality by buying this or that object that will best convey our originality. “Almost as if the consumer society had transformed even our personalities into something you can buy,” he reflects. His cardboard objects call attention, therefore, to the former products that might have been kept within them—a deflated shell that was reinflated.

“Cardboard is cheap and easy to find, and using simple tools and techniques it is possible to make almost anything,” notes Gilmour. He might be onto something…

The post The Remarkable Cardboard Sculptures of Chris Gilmour appeared first on TettyBetty.

The inspiration for his work came from a simple diagram of a bicycle. “In 2005, while living in Hong Kong, I came across an exploded diagram of a bicycle on the back of a magazine,” he writes in his website. “I was inspired by its fragile beauty, and imagined a three-dimensional version with a real object.”

Inspired by that initial bicycle image, the subjects Peralta chooses for his “Mechanations” series are icons of utility and invention. “I also like to think they hold memories that we’ve long forgotten,” he writes. “They’ve watched generations pass; recorded every scene, love letter, and document. Each image, word, and note is permanently imprinted on them.”

In order to expose the inner workings of his chosen objects, he developed his own techniques for suspension. Having received no formal training in the arts, it wasn’t until his thirties that he found his creative voice. His influences include cubist artists like Metzinger and Picasso, as well as surrealist artist Storm Thorgerson. But his sculptures, we have to admit, look like nothing we’ve ever seen.

The post John A. Peralta Deconstructs Iconic Objects and Machines appeared first on TettyBetty.

A recent series of hers has seen cylindrical stoneware vessels, carved with iconography – something that could be found, perhaps, in the archeological museums of the future.

Switching between painting and sculpting, Little admits that diversity keeps her inspired and also helps her manage her time better. “For me, I get a bit stir crazy so bouncing between the two mediums helps break up my time,” the Colorado-based artist told Art of Choice. “Typically I will work in one medium for a period of months and then switch, with that amount of time you can sort of get somewhere with something, and also get to the point where you are yearning for the other thing and start to build anticipation for the shift.”

“And then on the viewing end, I think paintings and sculptures operate really differently so it really opens things up for me,” she adds. “I can do things with a sculpture that may be really specifically about painting, but all the specificity of a 3-dimension object really alters the content (like its relationship to the viewer, body, the material of the clay itself, etc.) which is really exciting for me.”

Check out some of her work in the gallery below.

The post Jasmine Little’s Art Mixes Things Up appeared first on TettyBetty.

When almost everyone sees the pits of avocado as trash, Irish artist
Jan Campbell sees them as a form of art. She formed a niche by sculpting pits.

This talented artist refers to her avocado pits as stones. She treats the stones like precious marble as she uses them to create Celtic folklore inspired totems. There are so many uses for the art pieces. Some are worn as pendants and resemble miniature totems of forest spirits. They also give off a calming vibe when you look at them.

Scroll below to see some of Jan’s beautiful carved totems from her Instagram page.

The post Artist Creates Carved Totems with Avocado Pits appeared first on TettyBetty.