Art Kaleidoscope

Paper Portraits by Hiroki Suzuki
Japanese freelance artist Hiroki Suzuki graduated from the Musashino Art University. The artist uses the simplest of all materials – colored paper as the basis of a photograph or drawing, or rather to say contoured image. Scissors cut paper into different details, which then are put on the base of paper. Sometimes instead of scissors parts of paper are torn with hands to reveal the texture and add emphasis to design. All this is not an easy handmade work.
Uniqueness of Hiroki’s copyright works is his art style. Secret is how to use colors. Hiroki made ​​a rule to use only four different colors on one picture. Only then the work gets the most harmonious, aesthetic and complete view. The author seeks to create an artwork that will affect the audience with her bright pop style.
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Glass artist Lyubov Savelieva
Born in 1940 in Moscow, Lyubov Savelieva graduated from Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (Stroganovskoe) in 1966. She began participating in regional, national, All-Union, solo and group international exhibitions in 1967. Depicted in a casually-naive manner, her flying images and fantasy stories are full of creative energy. Innovative combination of glass and copper in the works of Honored Artist of Russia distinguishes her from other glass artists.
In 1970 she became a member of the Union of Artists. Since 1969 she has taught artistic ceramics and glass art at University, and became a Professor. Also, she became a Member of the International Association of Art Glass in 1988. in 1990 she got International Award “Artist of the Year” after several exhibitions in the USA. The same year Lyubov Savelieva became the elected member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
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My first glance when scrolling Facebook timeline made me think that it’s a beautiful photograph of a bird. This colorful bird is in fact a realistic stitch work by a self-taught artist of applied art Elza. Talented craftswoman Elza shares the images of her embroidery on Facebook page. Elza lives in Cape Town, South Africa, engaged in animalistic stitch. Realistic embroidery by Elza is not for sale, she is just enjoying her hobby. She has taught herself mostly from books an magazines and then applied that knowledge plus her own ideas to her embroidery.
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As a child, Vladimir Sudarkin had two passions: artistic gymnastics and crafts – cutting wood, knitting, modeling, etc. Somehow he got a book on Basket weaving. He went into the woods, cut willow ​​vines, chose sketch of lampshade and all night was creating it, trying to get a desired shape. All the things that Sudarkin makes, otherwise than a work of art can not be called. And like any artist, he never makes copies, all is exclusive. Even the baskets, from which he started, never repeat one another. But willow weaving is just a hobby for Sudarkin, he teaches gymnastics at school, and hopes that willow weaving art, existing in the world since the Neolithic period will not be forgotten.
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