A short film documenting the beauty of handcrafting a cello by incredibly talented carpenters from Xavier Vidal i Roca workshop, carving and cutting the bulky instrument into it’s iconic shape. Watch the video below.
Tag: Wood Art
Ferrari F50 Boat Floating in Venice
Livio De Marchi has spent five months carving a block of pine to create a working Ferrari F50 boat. The craftsman carefully carved the famous supercar logo, rims and brake lights into the wood and added a Yamaha boat engine to power it through the water. The eye-catching vehicle, which weighs 2000 pounds, is a solitary… Continue reading Ferrari F50 Boat Floating in Venice
Wooden Volkswagen Beetle
Momir Bojic, 71, from Bosnia built his own 1975 Volkswagen Beetle out of 50,000 tiny little sculpted pieces of oak. The amazing Beetle has a wooden body, wooden steering wheel, wooden hub caps and even a wooden dashboard. Momir spent 18 months hand-carving almost every piece of a Beetle using those hands.
Amazing Realistic Wood Sculptures of Paper Objects
Artist Randall Rosenthal carves and paints solid blocks of wood into amazing realistic sculptures of paper objects. Rosenthal work has gone wildly viral, thanks to the cardboard box chock-full of cash sculpture that was created in 2011. According to The Huffington Post, the “box of money” took a total of three months to complete. Scroll down to see more of Rosenthal’s realistic wooden sculptures that… Continue reading Amazing Realistic Wood Sculptures of Paper Objects
Incredible Matchstick Sculptures
An Iowa-based artist Patrick Acton has glued over 3.5 million ordinary wooden matchsticks into more than 60 magnificent models. After nearly ten years of model building and cutting the heads off 100,000 matchsticks, Acton contacted the Ohio Blue Tip Company, where he learned that matchsticks could be purchased without the sulfur tip. After this discovery, Acton… Continue reading Incredible Matchstick Sculptures