Shoe sculpture art

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Our ICON in CARDBOARD SHOES Things get a little crazy when we run out of hot glue! One of our "almost" finished shoes Drawing and planning of the design Hoping we don't make a "wrong" cut as cardboard is becoming a hot commodity in the artroom My Art 1 classes have using the works of Mike Leavitt, a modern artist, who began constructing in carboard in 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leavitt_(artist),as a springboard in the the design and construction of carboard shoes. This has…

Reuse those old cereal boxes by making shoe sculptures, following this simple tutorial.

Costa Magarakis says that his work "can be expressed as a gothic wonderland illuminating the gray area between truths and lies." His inner mind juxtaposes against the real world to form surreal scenes of people, technology, and nature. I find his work with shoes to be particularly striking, such as this platform shoe that looks like the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.-via Lustik...

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Jenni Dutton, sewn shoe

In her ongoing body of work, Soft Sculptures, French artist Karine Jollet starts with old bed sheets and shirts, embroidered handkerchieves and second-hand fabrics that she cuts up into fragments a...

Turkish-born visual artist Şakir Gökçebağ (previously) deconstructs everyday objects, often eradicating their original functionality in order to form humorous installations. His works are created from items one might find around the house such as hula hoops, brooms, toilet paper rolls, and pairs of worn shoes. The later series of altered footwear spans more than 15 years, and has been installed in surreal arrangements both inside and out of the gallery. More

Yes. It’s a shoe. Made of masking tape. Maybe that’s not surprising, but I never would have thought of using tape for a sculpture. That’s exactly what my first sculpture project w…