Feathered Skull

Feather, a sculpture by Joel Dugan. The 7.5" x 11" x 7" piece was made using vellum, gesso, and watercolors.
Via: Lustik, Via: JazJaz

Superman Could Never Enjoy This Krypton Skeleton

Colossal interviewed Portland glass blower Eric Franklin about his eerie anatomical sculpture. The hollow skeleton is filled with ionized Krypton and took over 1,000 hours spread out over two years to complete. See more photos and read about how this delicate, complicated work of art came into being over at.
LINK: This Is Colossal, Via: buzzfeed

Victoria’s Way Indian Sculpture Park

An eccentric garden of Indian sculptures in the green of Ireland.

The unusual spiritual visions of an Irishman were created in stone by craftsmen in Mahabalipuram, India, and now populate a sculpture park in County Wicklow, Ireland.

On 22 acres of grounds, the park includes a series of dancing Ganesh figures, Shiva and other Hindu deities. It also includes more bizarre sculptures of a skeletal Buddha-like figure, an enormous disembodied finger, and a sculpture called "The Split Man" which shows a figure ripping itself in two, representing "the mental state of the dysfunctional human".

Intended to represent the spiritual progression to enlightenment, the collection of 14 statues took 20 years to complete. LINK

3D Snarky Street Art by Relero

Eduardo Relero certainly brings a unique sense of humor to his 3D street paintings - from a dog pooing on a masterpiece sculpture to other subtly snarky scenes he goes to great length to first craft a beautiful piece of artwork and then turn it on its head. In many cases he can be found in photographs interacting with his works in humorous ways as well. LINK

Farmer builds Big Ben replica in his field from 50 bales of straw

Closer inspection reveals that this is a rustic copy of the Victorian landmark, built on a farm using more than 500 bales of hay - and featuring a working clock. Although its faces are illuminated at night there are only two - both facing the road - rather than the four of the real thing.

The 70ft Big Ben sculpture, made with over 500 bales weighing over 20 tonnes, dominates the view on the A51 road between Nantwich and Chester in Cheshire

Little Ben: The sculpture, which has a working clock, was built in celebration of summer and heralds the 150th anniversary of the famous London landmark. Previous straw creations have included a rocket and a windmill. LINK

Geekiest Pieces of Furniture in the Universe

The goblins have been slain, the maidens have been won. Good job, Dungeon Master. Kick back, and set your fine drink upon a glass tray held obediently by your stone "Subservient Dragon."

If you're not into D&D, it also works great for displaying your Harry Potter books or He-Man action figures. LINK

Mikael Alacoque

Mikael Alacoque rips familiar and nostalgic objects to the core to create a new sinister image sculptured with abstract moulding techniques. His dead dogs, in particular, have fantastic symbolism, with ice-cream smashed on their little heads. Alacoque is certainly an artist for now and beyond. LINK

Recycling Eagle’ sculpture release on Earth Day

Burnaby artist Bill Thomson, places his ‘Recycling Eagle’ sculpture at the new Vancouver Convention Centre building. Bill’s ‘Recycling Eagle’ is one of over 150 ‘Eagles in the City’ to be located in towns around the province from April 2009 to April 2010. The project is sponsored by the BC Lions Society.

The artist states: ‘Recycling Eagle’, is a urban eagle with a sharp eye for salvage and a popular culture flair for ‘bling’. The silvery wings are embellished with the shiny backs of recycled license plates along with a built in LED light system on the trailing edge of the wings. Check out Thomson’s unique ‘Recycling Eagle’, on your next visit to the waterfront. LINK

Matchbox Mountain

The 1984 sculpture in this video was located in the San Francisco FAO Schwartz's window for a couple of years. It's now for sale on eBay with a starting bid of $4500. The maker says, "I'll include alot of matchbox and hotwheel vehicles(some of which i've retrofitted with head and tail lights." Matchbox Mountain. LINK, Via: Youtube

Brian Dettmer's book sculptures

Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer creates marvelous sculptures by performing surgery on books. He has a show opening April 3 at Chicago's Packer Schopf Gallery. The gallery kindly sent a few sneak peeks at the new work. Click the images to see them larger. LINK

Scrap metal skeleton sculpture

This scrap-metal skeleton sculpture, "Jibetarian," is on display at the National Art Center in Tokyo -- it's a student piece from Tokyo Zokei University.
Jibetarian - 芦村康吉, Via: Boingboing

Live Sculpture Show

Life size sculpture created in two hours with with a model in front of an audience. LINK: Youtube

Water Sculpture

None of the images have been manipulated by any software. LINK: Youtube

Morpho Tower

A liquid sculpture by Sachiko Kodama and Yasushi Miyajima. LINK, Via: Youtube

Steampunk sculpture

Art Donovan, has a beautiful, gigantic new artwork, "The Illuminated Astrolabe."
New Steampunk Design by Art Donovan: The Illuminated Astrolabe (Thanks, Art!). Via: Boingboing

Steampunk Plasma Bell Jar Sculpture

David K. writes:

Lisa Snellings, who has done amazing artwork for years (including pieces for Neil Gaiman that have inspired a number of his short stories) has a great work of art on eBay right now, that is a Victorian steampunk scene with a plasma ball, done in the Victorian style complete with framing bell jar. Well worth checking out!It is indeed. $750 at the moment but for once seemingly worth the price. But if that's still too much for you grousers, you can buy similar real working vacuum bell jars for around $120, or ornamental ones for $45. Brain and plasma not included. LINK

Skeletons Come to Life!

Saúl Hernández's skeletons so special is how they are so alive. These extraordinary bronze sculptures are part of his “208 OSEOsidades” collection. Saul is from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and his collection of skeletons are 8.27 inches (21 centimeters) in height and a 1:8 scale replica of real skeletons. All the sculptures are mounted on a base made of marble, onyx and stainless steel while the skeletons themselves are made of bronze with a wax of silver. LINK

Giant Blue Bear Sculpture: Peek-A-Boo!

Photo: Elizabeth Thomsen [Flickr]

That’s "I See What You Mean," a 40-foot tall blue bear peering into the window of the Colorado Convention Center. The steel and fiberglass sculpture is created by Lawrence Argent:

The artist has described I See What You Mean as a stylized representation of native fauna. As the bear peeks inside the enormous facility at the conventioneers, displacement and wonder pique curiosity and question a greater relationship of art, technology and whimsy.

Link - Via: Pursuits: Elizabeth Thomsen and Super Punch, Via: Neatorama

Hypodermic Syringe Chandelier by Andy Diaz Hope

This series of chandelier sculptures drips with sparkling hypodermic needles and garlands of swarovski crystal, and colorful gelatin capsules. Viewed from beneath they create colorful mandalas on which to meditate on ones relationship to pharmaceuticals. The beauty of the object from a distance and the repulsion of the individual elements upon closer inspection create the tension of our cultures schizophrenic relationship to drugs.,

Link - Via: Sprott, Via: Neatorama

The Skeleton Bicycle

This stunning sculpture is the work of Jud Turner, it was created for the ‘Different Spokes’ sculpture show in 2008.

Jud used a combination of welded steel, some found objects and mixed media to create what he calls the ‘Bio Cycle.

Link, Via: Neatorama