Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Shani Juds - Nail Art

Nail art is a form of art that is made by just using nails and a hammer. It is a unique way of representing art, and it is not seen very often. This type of art takes skill and a lot of patience. Some artists who create nail art are Marcus Levine, and Saimir Strati. You will be seeing some of their works here.



This piece of art was made by Marcus Levine. It is made up of steel nails that he has hammered to a hard surface. Marcus Levine is known for making nail mosaics and making pictures of people and body parts. 


The artist of this piece was done by Saimir Saiti. It is made up of thousands of nails. This piece of art took a lot of time, and a lot of effort was needed to hammer in all the nails. As you can see, different color nails were needed because of the shadows and eyes on the horse. 


This piece was also done by Saimir Saiti. He is an Albanian artist. In this piece, Saimir Saiti used over one million nails. This is one of his most famous pieces of work. It is a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. 


This piece was done by a South African artist. As you can see it is not a portrait or animal, but it is a design of some sort. It incorporates different colors, and it uses other things other than nails. It includes toothpicks and corks as well. This piece of art only uses circles, and they overlap each other. It sort of creates a 'crowded' sense, and it makes the viewers seem closed up. 


It might be hard to believe that this is nails, but it is. This piece has many different color nails, and some nails had to be over lapped with each other to create the 3D effect that it has. It sort of has an ocean feel to it as the bottom looks like waves. The objects on the top could be seen as shells or fish. 


This piece was also done by Saimir Strati. This was mainly done by painted nails and some toothpicks. This piece shows a woman playing a guitar. The person standing in front of it really emphasizes how big the piece is. 


This piece of nail art is the most realistic one. It is a portrait of a young girl and a baby. The artist here used dark shades of grey, and silver to create the shadows on the faces and the hair. It was done really well. It seems like this portrait could have been drawn by pencil, because of how detailed everything is. 





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