South Korean sculptor and artist Hyungkoo Lee has created a very unusual series of sculptures entitled «Homo Animatus», which recreated the skeletons of cartoon characters.To create a sculpture master used resin, aluminum sticks, steel wires, springs and oil paint. If you look carefully, you may well see all familiar characters from favorite cartoons in our childhood.You will see the bones of our favorite childhood friends like Canis Latrans Animatus (Wile E. Coyote), Geococcyx Animatus (Roadrunner), Lepus Animatus (Bugs Bunny), Felis Catus Animatus (Tom), Mus Animatus (Jerry), Anas Animatus (Donald Duck) and his three nephews, Animatus H, D and L ( Huey, Dewey and Louie).

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Federico Uribe is an artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida, creating pencil sculpture and pencil “paintings”.Federico was born in Bogota, Colombia and studied art at the University of Los Andes in Bogota. Upon graduating, he worked and studied in New York, Cuba, Mexico, Russia and England before settling in Miami.Federico’s pencil paintings are composed entirely of sharpened, unsharpened, whole and broken pencils.

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Sculptor Keith Jennings began his Tree Spirits project in 1982 with a tree in his backyard. Jennings was later commissioned to apply his wood sculpting skills on a series of trees throughout St. Simons Island, located right off the coast of the state of Georgia. He carves faces into trees, revealing the tree’s inner spirit. To produce his installations, Jennings takes two to four days. The artist says that each face he carves into the wood is created entirely according to the tree.

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Igor Arinich is known as the “Money Artist”. Belarusian artist Igor Arinich found a very original to create artistic images. He is creating collages exclusively from old Soviet banknotes. He is visiting flee markets in his city of Minsk, buying every Soviet banknote he could find, dating from 1961 to 1991. He is particularly proud of his replica of a painting by early 20th-century Russian artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, which took half a year and about 3,000 banknotes to make. Arinich says he charges between $700 and $2000 for his unique artworks, and many of them are sold abroad.

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Whatever you want, Livio De Marchi will cut it out of wood.Livio De Marchi is a Venetian artist using simple but familiar tools, including 100 different kinds of chisel and an old wooden hammer. He is a master craftsman, and some of his work is truly awesome.

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