Artist Uses Sunlight And A Magnifying Glass To Create These Extraordinary Drawings
Jordan Mang-osan is a Philippines-based pyrography artist, who uses sunlight and a magnifying glass alone to create these spectacular landscapes and rich portraits. Carefully positioning the magnifying glass on the prepared sketch, the artist etches dark lines into the plywood, demonstrating his talent, patience, skills that brought him international recognition and many art awards throughout the years.
His pyrography art, the raw materials that he uses, and the themes in his artworks are highly influenced by his cultural heritage, history, and nature in his native Mountain Province inthe Phillipines. The artist has been exhibiting his works for international audience since 1993 and is one of the founders a president of the Chanum Foundation from 1996 that has helped to create an artist village in the Baguio City, eventually becoming a hub for aspiring artists throughout the country.
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Hypnotizing Wilderness Landscape Carved Out Of Wood
After almost 2 years of on-and-off preparation and work, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based artist duo Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are almost finished with their new woodcut print, called “Overlook.” The meticulously intricate woodcut of a speckled landscape with forests, mountains and lakes will be soon available as a three-color print, the final size reaching 28” x 46”.
“ Layer upon layer of undulating pattern builds a dizzying intensity in ‘Overlook’, ” write the artists. “ A panoramic infinity will be suggested by the print’s ability to eventually meet itself seemlessly at the edges, expanding like an eternal ‘wallpaper’ into an ever stretching vista! ”
The “Overlook” print will be available as a single piece, a diptych, a triptych, or “ an entire room’s worth of loping, abundant wilderness as far as the eye can see! ” – all from their Tugboat print shop.
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