Lady Omega

Last week we went to Artomatic art exhibition in Washington D.C. Artomatic is the community-driven , all-volunteer 5-week art exhibition in D.C. , which draws all the local emerging as well as established artists together. Going on since 1999, this year’s Artomatic is featuring works of over 800 visual artists and 200 of musical, dance, theatric, and other performing artists. It’s being held in a 10-floor Capital Plaza I building at 1200 First Street NE.

Each one of the 8 floors is like an art gallery, but the fun thing is that you find different styles of art with almost every step – one space would have modern-style, surrealistic paintings, the other one would have photography, the next one would have junk art, and the next one would have something totally weird you won’t even know what to call it. The other 2 floors have live performances and the bar.

I did 5 floors of art only, and that was more than enough impressions and inspiration. It was great to find out that there are so many young artists in the area, with very interesting ideas and ways of expressing themselves. I took loads of photos and artist’s flyers to check their sites. Here are some of the photos of the art i found the most interesting for me:

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The Peep Show

The Peeps are marshmallow-inspired creatures made by different people for the Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest. The dioramas display all kinds of iconic images from the present and the past, political situations, well-known movies, and just funny stuff. These are definitely worth noticing.

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If you want to check out more photos i took, visit my Flickr and the Artomatic pool.

“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” - said Picasso. So, here are emotions embodied into the paper - the coolest papercraft toys i’ve encountered online:

Shin Tanaka

Shin Tanaka is a graffiti artist, paper toy creator and designer from Fukuoka, Japan. His site features supercute papercraft toys - Spiky Baby series, T-Boy, Boxy and others. Some are available for download.

Josh McKible

Josh McKible’s Paper Birds are adorable. He is a very successful graphic and visual design artist from New York, living in Tokyo.
The birdies are available for download!

Brian Castleforte

Brian Castleforte is a designer from LA. His site - Nice Bunny has a vairety of his papercrafts as well as of the other guest artists. The toys are available for download.

Atom-Glue² chronicle

Here are the brilliant works of Atom, a japanese artist: the papercraft reproduction of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights‘ creatures - the Helmet bird, and the Letter bird from The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

Paper Critters

Paper Critters is an online paper toy creator site, where one can make his own paper creature, get a chance to be showcased in the top 10 critters, and see some of them out in the wild!

Readymech

Readymech’s papercrafts are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. The site features a great variety of cute creatures.

Speakerdog

Speakerdog - yet another site with cute downloadable papercrafts. Make your own speakerdog!

Dragon illusion

This dragon is lots of fun. I already have one at home, it’s pretty cool. The little dragon is made out of paper - you cut it out, stick it together, and stand it on a table or window ledge. But when you move around, the dragon’s head seems to follow you around the room. There is a video on the Grand Illusions site, which shows how it works, and it’s available for download.

Papercraft Robots Gallery

Robot Tairiku site has a big gallery of papercraft robots, available for download:

Skull-A-Day papercraft:

And here’s a papercraft skull from Skull-A-Day: