Leo Sewell is an American "found object" artist.

His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide.

Born: September 7, 1945 (age 69), Annapolis, Maryland, United States

Leo Sewell went to the University of Delaware.

Leo Sewell has played with junk now for fifty years and has developed his own assemblage technique.

His works are collected by corporations, museums and individuals throughout the world.

His sculptures are composed of recognizable objects of plastic, metal and wood. These objects are chosen for their color, shape, texture, durability and patina; then they are assembled using nails, bolts, and screws. The outdoor sculptures are constructed of stainless steel, brass, or aluminum found objects which are welded together.

He can also use objects from the patron's past for a more personal assemblage.

This sculpture of a Hammer was made of recycled materials and is one of Leo Sewell's artworks.

It measures 10ft x 4ft x 2ft.

I like this idea of making artwork out of recycled materials, it is great for the environment and it can make a great sculpture for a new town.

Leo Sewell’s artwork and information can be found on the following websites:

http://www.leosewell.net/artwork.php?which=8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Sewell

Michelle Reader is an artists based in London, England.

She works in London and is based at Blackhorse Lane Studios in Walthamstow (Barbican Arts Group Trust).

She has been working with recycled materials since 1997, and also has a background in design for performance.

Michelle makes bespoke recycled and sustainable sculptures for organisations, often created from waste materials relevant to the business or event. 

Michelle also works with galleries, schools, and other organisations as a freelance artist educator, and creates unique awards and trophies from reclaimed materials.

The direction of Michelle's work has been influenced by environmental concerns such as pollution and overconsumption of resources.

This sculpture of a Jaguar is made of recycled materials by Michelle Reader, it is as big as an average human being.

Michelle Readers artwork is very fascinating and I also like the idea of making a life size Jaguar out of recycled materials, I believe this sculpture took a long time to create.

Michelle Readers artwork can be found on these websites:

http://www.michelle-reader.co.uk/Home.html

http://www.re-title.com/artists/michelle-reader.asp

Born in 1983 in St. Louis, USA, Erika Iris Simmons is an artist who specializes in using old cassette tapes to create incredibly artistic celebrity portraits.

Erika Iris makes portraits of people associated with the item she choose – without adding any paint or pigments.

This piece is a self-portrait of the famous Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana.

Yuken Teruya, (born 1973 in Onikawa) is an artist based in New York City.
Louis Vuitton

14.5 x 40 x 33.5 cm

He works in a variety of media and often references consumer culture alongside traditional craft techniques.
An example of his art is the series of McDonald's and high-end designer store bags into which Teruya cuts intricate tree shapes that are then pushed through into the interior of the bag, creating an enclosed environment within.
Teruya creates a beautiful scene inside a bag, and that is very fascinating, the cut out of the top makes the tree reflect of the sides of the bag making it look like a small park in Japan.
Using different bags with different colours can create a lovely atmosphere, for example this one particularly looks like a scene in Autumn, orange, brown and yellow are Autumn colours.
Teruya has many other artworks that are similar and used with recycled materials.
Yuken Teruya's work can be found on these websites:
http://www.yukenteruyastudio.com/
http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/yuken_teruya.htm

Timothy "Tim" Noble (born 1966) and Susan "Sue" Webster (born 1967), are two British artists who work as a collaborative duo, and are associated with the post-YBA generation of artists.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster's work can be divided into the 'Light Works' and the 'Shadow Works'.

This piece is called Dirty White Trash (With Gulls) and was made in 1998.

6 months' worth of artists' trash, 2 taxidermy seagulls and a light projector.

'Dirty White Trash With Gulls' is a art piece Noble and Webster made by using and gathering all the trash they had, it is a very unusual thing to do and I have never seen anything like this.

It is so interesting how they put all the trash together and used a bright spotlight in front of the trash to be able to see what it really is they made, and the result was a shadow of Noble and Webster sitting on the floor back to back.

This is a great idea and piece, you can barely make out what figure is made of the trash because there is so much colour and shapes its almost impossible to tell, it just looks like messy trash on the ground.

I enjoy their work, its very fascinating and unusual, and its something different from other art.

Noble's and Webster's art and information can be found online on these following websites:

http://www.timnobleandsuewebster.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Noble_and_Sue_Webster

The False Eye
René Magritte was born on 21 November 1898 in Lessines, Belgium.

Rene Magritte was a surreal artist, with this painting.
It display more sentiment by the shape of wide eyes directly portraying a clear blue sky with white puffy clouds.

Reflecting from the sky and directly to thee pupils.
The way the outline and shadow are cast as if the individual has been watching the sky and has spotted something which whom don't see it.
This painting shows substantial feelings and displays more than 1 action taking place at their time.

It also seems as if the image is a dream and the individual is seemingly gazing through the sky as referred to lucid dreaming or day dreaming.

This painting includes shades of blues and browns. nudes around the eye with slight yellow light.
The shading in this painting starts from the right side travelling to the left side, becoming lighter.

The False Eye is a fascinating painting and I enjoy the very well put together colours and shading.

Octopus & Elephant combined street art.

This piece with an elephant head growing out tentacles is quite inconceivable.

This art piece is located in London, England.

Is very far from the ordinary however instead of the elephant having one main trunk, it has multiple tentacles which represents an octopus converging along with an elephant head not only that its main trunk has been replaced by also an octopus tentacle, whereas everything else following the ears, eyes, head & the root towards the trunk remains the same except the tentacles.

The piece is done on a layer of brick which simply matches the scales or rough skin which thee elephant has.

A fascinating piece of street art, also being done by paint spray. Showing efforts of shading not only on the elephant head itself but the emotions of the tentacles of it lashing like 'liquid' shows as if the elephant actually has control of the tentacles, as if both creatures was one.

The fact that the artists done this in a local area, it will appeal as a sense of graffiti too.

1. Frida Kahlo was a surreal artists mostly known for her self-portraits.

   Born: July 6, 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico.

   Died: July 13, 1954, Coyoacán, Mexico.

   This is a self-portrait painting of herself Frida Kahlo, it was painted in 1940.

   Measuring 16 x 24 cm.

   She has painted herself into an imaginary jungle surrounded by wild animals such as a monkey a cat and two mosquitoes with a green and yellow background of leafs.

   Kahlo painted a thorn like necklace around her neck to represent her suffocating or being trapped in reality.

   Kahlo is expressing her feelings through art and painting from her own head, Kahlo has painted this self-portrait in a very surreal like way, in a jungle like place.

   Kahlo might be giving a message that she is lost or trapped in reality and doesn't know how to get out, it might even represent herself and her nightmares.

   I find this piece very fascinating and powerful.

   
   

   This painting has also a great range of bright colours and really stands out.

Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

Dalí completed this painting in 1937.

The painting shows Narcissus sitting in a pool, gazing down. Not far away there is a decaying stone figure which corresponds closely to him but is perceived quite differently; as a hand holding up a bulb or egg from which a Narcissus is growing. The egg has been used as a symbol for sexuality in other paintings by Dalí.

Relenting, the gods immortalised him as the narcissus (daffodil) flower. For this picture Dalí used a meticulous technique which he described as 'hand-painted colour photography' to depict with hallucinatory effect the transformation of Narcissus, kneeling in the pool, into the hand holding the egg and flower. Narcissus as he was before his transformation is seen posing in the background. 

I don't really enjoy looking at this painting because its confusing to my eye, there is so much happening at once and it isn't making any sense to me.
This piece reminds me of a board game.

Maurits Cornelis Escher, usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist.

Born: June 17, 1898, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

Died: March 27, 1972, Laren, North Holland, Netherlands.

This woodcut artwork was made by Escher in June 1938.

It is called ‘Sky and Water I’ and it measures 43.5 cm x 43.9 cm.

The basis of this print is a regular division of the plane consisting of birds and fish.

As the fish progress upward and the birds downward they gradually lose their shapes to become a uniform background of sky and water, respectively.

According to Escher: "In the horizontal center strip there are birds and fish equivalent to each other. We associate flying with sky, and so for each of the black birds the sky in which it is flying is formed by the four white fish which encircle it. Similarly swimming makes us think of water, and therefore the four black birds that surround a fish become the water in which it swims."

I really enjoy Escher’s work especially this particular piece, it has so much meaning and its very powerful, he is comparing two animals a fish and a bird, which is impossible for a fish to be like a bird because it swims under the water whereas a bird fly's in the sky.

The colours on this print are black and white.

Euan Ernest Richard Uglow was a British painter.
Uglow was born the 10th March 1932 and died the 31st August 2000.
He is famous for his nude and still life paintings such as German Girl and Skull.
Uglow was from London, England and lived in Tulse Hill in south London.
Uglow went to Strand School in Tulse Hill but afterwards he studied at Camberwell School of Art from 1948 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1954 at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he came under the influence of William Coldstream.
Uglow’s three-dimensional canvas paintings are sharp very well shaded and realistic.

Uglows technique is sigh size painting and drawing, Uglows art is very neat, simple and detailed.
He uses primary and secondary colours, the light areas are painted with light colours and the darker areas are painted with the same shade but with a darker colour.

Materials Uglow uses are a paintbrush, canvas and watercolour.

Uglow mostly draws nude paintings and still life for example pears, apples and lemons.

My point of view on his art is that it’s very enjoyable to look at, his paintings are simple, warm and calm, mainly because of the colours he uses, when I look at his paintings it reminds me of a vintage home.

Uglows drawings don’t really relate to mine, only the fact that I have drawn some fruits too but I have my own technique.
I have enjoyed drawing fruits, but it was very tricky to shade in the lemons and pears as they are round and I had to make them appear three-dimensional.