Artist Eric Daigh Sticks It To Us With His Pushpin Portraits

Born in California and now residing in Northern Michigan, 33 year old husband, father and artist Eric Daigh creates portraits by putting ordinary pushpins in posterboard. Daigh uses blue, red, white, yellow and black push pins (he sprays green pushpins black since there are no black pushpins) to create his masterpieces. Each portrait requires about 11,000 pushpins which Daigh applies by one at a time.


above: Eric and his wife Meghan, whose portrait he's created with pushpins four times.

His work took third place (and $50,000) in the Grand Rapids, Michigan 2009 ArtPrize Exhibition, has been featured on CBS this morning, was in the 2009 Communication Arts Illustration Annual and he holds the Guinness World Record for the largest pushpin mural.

Chloe and Casey:

Austin II and Cory:

Harper:

Jaia and Kimberly:

Neyla:


Potraits of Meghan, the artists' wife


Now, close-ups of each of the above portraits of Meghan.

Meghan I:

Meghan II:

Meghan III:

Meghan IV:

Self Portrait I and Self-portrait II:


The work as it appeared at Art Prize, 2009:




above: the artist in front of his work (photo by T.J. Hamilton)

A special thanks to the following folks on flickr for additional images:
Rich Evenhouse
Nancy Rae
Numstead
Pairadocs

Other artwork made with unusual mediums:

Frederico Uribe's shoelace, pencil and kicks art


The assemblage work of Bernard Pras


Portraits made of diamonds, sapphires and other gemstones:


The crayon and paper art of Christian Faur:

Artist Federico Uribe Creates Critters From Kicks, Paintings from Pencils And More.

Colombian born artist Federico Uribe must have a great deal of patience, in addition to his obvious load of talent. He began his career as a painter and then evolved to using found objects and industrial items in his work, creating assemblages that simply demand your rapt attention.

In his Torso series screws, coins, keyboard keys, dominoes, padlocks, paperclips and more form to create human torsos. Items like shoelaces and colored pencils are expertly assembled to create what look like paintings from afar, when what they really are is sculpture. This artisan, who now lives and works in Miami, creates pieces for private and public collections as well as commercial and personal applications.

Be prepared to marvel.

His Torso Series consists of sculptural torsos made from such items as fruit, pencils, fur, computer keys, nails. clothespins, rubber lips and more.

coins:

computer keys:

padlocks:


Made entirely of colored shoelaces, his Shoelace paintings are extraordinary:





His Pencil paintings (assemblage of actual pencils):





He has crafted several different series, as shown by the above examples, but he doesn't stop there. Below are images from his incredible 2006 installation called Human Nature made of PUMA shoes and shoelaces.




Now look at the individual animals closely, they are crafted from leather kicks and laces and are amazing:




















Federico Uribe's site.

Federico Uribe is represented by Annina Nosei Gallery in New York and Italy, Galerie Patrice Trigano in France, Galeria Angel Romero in Spain and Jacob Karpio Gallery in Latin America and Miami.