Patrick Benson, Owl Babies. Owl facts

Owl facts you probably didn’t know
“I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls”, that is what the Bible says about owls. Owls inspire artists to draw pictures and paintings, to write poems. Enjoy a good set of owl pictures, and Owl facts, which you will enjoy.
In fact, owls do not encounter any problem in seeing during the day and their eyesight is exceptionally good at night.
Amongst all the birds, the hearing of an owl is the best. Its ears – located on the sides of the head, hidden by feathers.
With the exception of a few species, owls are nocturnal and hunt at night only, unobserved by humans.
The feet of an owl are very strong and have two toes facing forward and two toes facing backward.
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Collage of creative photographs taken by Canadian photographer. Marco Gervasio photo project

Marco Gervasio photo project
Bas-relief – a type of decor in architecture. In French it means “low relief”. The convex image stands out above the wall at half its volume. Artists and sculptors decorated the buildings with relief decoration, starting from the Paleolithic.

Canadian photographer Marco Gervasio is the author of the series of beautiful series of photographs “Paris Visages” taken in the French capital. According to Marco Gervasio, he discovered artistic and architectural beauty of Paris, focusing on the details. In particular, numerous faces of human, and animals, meanwhile “observing you wherever you go and whatever you do”. Their artful impressive heads, busts decorate buildings everywhere from parks to churches, galleries to houses. All they want from us – to notice them sometimes, just what Marco Gervasio has successfully done.
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Vertumnus, a portrait of today. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons, c. 1590-1. Skokloster Castle, Sweden. The Arcimboldo Effect

The Arcimboldo Effect
What would you think if your face was assembled with fruits? Oranges, apples and cucumbers. In our days, it isn’t quite creative anymore — but, in the 16th century, it was really uncommon. During his life, Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a relief painting artist – did you know that he’s the author of part of the Cathedral of Monza frescoes? He also worked for many kings: Ferdinand I of Vienna, Maximilian II and Rudolf II of Prague and Augustus of Saxony were some of his clients. Besides his activity as a painter, he was also a decorator and stylist of the most prestigious courts of Europe.
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Woman’s portrait. Hand cast encaustic crayons. Christian Faur a new way of drawing

Christian Faur a new way of drawing
Many children start painting with wax stick, also known as crayons. Meanwhile, Christian Faur doesn’t do drawings just scratching out on paper. In particular, he arranges hundreds or thousands of pencils of different colors in a vertical position inside wooden frames. Then the extremities of the pencils become pixels composing images at a determined distance.

“The idea behind the unknown faces comes from my attempt to “fill” a lost childhood with fictional children. And I might have known them if I could only remember that time period of my life. The private color language used to spell out the several hundreds of names of these anonymous individuals. While further distances – the similarity of any real child from that of a pretend playmate. The names of these ghosts, like so much fiction, written in the lost language of crayons from a forgotten youth”, states Christian Faur.
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A family of Owls. Amazing Wood Sculptures by Randall Boni

American chainsaw carver and artist Randall Boni is one of the most skillful and talented woodcarvers in the world. His life size hyperrealistic sculptures of wildlife are very impressive. According to self-taught artist Randall, for him, wood carving is a hobby. He takes a huge log, chainsaw, cuts off the excess, and begins creating artwork. “I’m fussy about realism, proper proportion, and I try to bring life into the creatures that I carve“, says Boni. He grew up near the Allegheny National Forest, observing wildlife there – hawks, wood peckers, deer, bear, elk, which became the inspiration for Randy’s artworks.

Boni has always depended on wood for his livelihood and has a deep respect for trees, conservatism, proper forest management, and safeguarding nature, not destroying it. “If a tree is dying or has to be taken down, I feel I’m preserving some remembrance of the tree with my carvings,” he stated.
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The Vanishing Lady 1896

The Vanishing Lady
The rare film of 1896, also known as The Conjuring of a Woman at the House of Robert Houdin, or Escamotage d’une dame au theater Robert Houdin. In fact, the 1896 French short black-and-white silent film directed by French magician Georges Melies was a sensation. Noteworthy, The Vanishing Lady is number 70 on the Star Films catalog. Melies experimented with trick photography, and this is the first of this type exampled in this set. Another simple stage is set: A magician walks in, bows his head slightly, a woman comes in, sits down in a chair, and he puts a sheet over her head.
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“Apartment renovation” sculpture inside a roll of toilet paper

Anastassia Elias Toilet paper arts
First of all, toilet paper arts created by French artist Anastassia Elias is a truly piece of art. Creative, fresh look at simple things around us, which can become beautiful piece of art, if to apply some skills and imagination. Anastassia Elias is also an illustrator, painter, working on collages.

But mostly she has become well known for her amazingly beautiful art of paper. She carves tiny scenes out of the inside of each brown paper roll, leaving the outside intact, and this is her ongoing project. And the subjects – busy with everyday activities. For example, relaxing at home, listening to a lecture or passing through a street market. Indeed, talented people can make beautiful art even from toilet paper 🙂

“Football game” sculpture inside a roll of toilet paper

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Fabulous forest fairy. Su Blackwell paper worlds

Su Blackwell paper worlds
Born in Sheffield in 1975, Su Blackwell is a talented English paper artist.
As a child she often spent her time playing in the woods near her home, in her own make-believe world. The girl believed that trees would protect her, and she gave names to them.

Su Blackwell creates paper fairytale world, where princesses live in paper kingdoms that emerge from the seven classic tales. Each one is illustrated by a series of intricate paper sculptures, meticulously cut from the pages of another edition of the same story.

Su graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003. She makes intricate art works from every-day objects, transforming clothes and books into fantastical 3D forms. According to Su Blackwell, she creates her paper worlds with a help of scalpel, scissors, paper and glue. Her beautiful paper works exposed in private collections, art galleries and museums.
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18th century scene. Paper art by Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Erlikh

Paper art by Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Erlikh
Creative duo of artists, a husband and a wife, live in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Meanwhile, they became famous for their amazing paper sculptures of ordinary people in everyday life. In particular, how they get up in the morning, have breakfast, go by bus, plane, or anything and the places where they work. Just a usual day of ordinary paper people. Thus, they have created series of paper installations “Airplane”, “In the office”, etc. The creative Russian duo of Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Erlikh have already become experts in working with paper. And what is more important – their paper world is positive, colorful, with interesting details.
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