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| Intricate Doodle Portraits Are Made with a Single Continuous Line Posted: 04 Sep 2012 06:15 AM PDT
Pierre Emmanuel Godet is a French self-taught artist living in Barcelona who creates incredible artworks with a single continuous line. And as if that wasn’t impressive enough, the little doodles that make up his artworks tell the tale of the subjects he’s trying to depict. On his blog, Pierre Emmanuel Godet says he used to work in Research Engineering, in his native country of France, but he had always been more interested in art, so one day he decided to take a leap of faith and become a professional artist. Although he has an impressive collection of oil and acrylic paintings, his one-line drawings are by far him most amazing works of art. He started this unique series in 2010, while exploring the idea of making art with very few materials. Godet’s first attempts were chalk drawings on the streets of Dublin, Ireland, but as he got better he transposed them on canvas, with Indian ink. In the beginning he created simple shapes, like animals and symbols, but as he became more experience he moved on to more elaborate works, like celebrity portraits. Each of these amazing renditions is unique and contains objects, shapes and stories related to the person they’re depicting. It’s hard to tell from a distance, but if you look closely, you can see that almost all the doodles (apart from exceptions like the eyes, or the nose) are linked together in a continuous line. Pierre Emmanuel Godet, who now lives in Barcelona, Spain, makes a living selling his intricate drawings to art lovers around the world. You can check out his portfolio on Etsy, as well as his personal blog. If you like this kind of intricate doodle drawing, you might want to take a look at the awesome works of Sagaki Keita. They’re not made with a single line, but they’re still awe-inspiring.
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| Artist Creates Beautiful Mosaics from Discarded New York Metro Cards Posted: 04 Sep 2012 01:29 AM PDT
German artist Nina Boesch uses discarded New York Metro Cards to create beautiful mosaics inspired by the Big Apple. The resourceful collage master reckons she has used about 30,000 metro cards, so far. To most New-Yorkers, the iconic metro card becomes just a useless piece of plastic after they’ve gotten on the subway, but for Nina Boesch it becomes an invaluable piece of art precisely after it’s been thrown away. The 33-year old artist gathers material for her amazing mosaics scouring the metro stations of New York City. "I can't leave a subway station without looking around, it's almost OCD at this point," she says. "Sometimes you're lucky and you find a whole stack of them." She has become famous for using hundreds of these yellow, black and blue pieces of plastic to create intricate collages, each with its own New York-inspired theme. So far she has assembled portraits of famous New-Yorkers like Woody Allen and Catherine Hepburn, as well as renditions of the Statue of Liberty, yellow cabs or the New York Subway. Nina Boesch remembers she started working with discarded metro cards 11 years ago, while looking for an inexpensive gift for her host family . She was a young German artist who had come to New York as part of an exchange program, so she was on a very tight budget. All she had was used Metro Cards so she decided to make something out of them. She ended up creating a map of the United States for her hosts, and they loved it so much that they kept pushing her to pursue her unique art style further. Since that first art piece, Boecsh has used over 30,000 Metro cards to make her collages, which now sell for between $200 and $2,500.
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