Alex Queral creates amazing three-dimensional portraits by carving faces of famous people into recycled phone books.
Using a very sharp knife, the artist carefully peels away the pages like the skin of an onion to reveal the portrait within.
Clint Eastwood
Barack Obama
Pee-Wee Herman
Michael Moore
David Carradine
Ringo Starr
Rodney Dangerfield
Jack Nicholson
Albert Einstein
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GustaveCo
How extraordinary!
Aug 27th, 2010
Pluto Nash
Yo boy daz illll. Ringo star iz my boy.
Aug 27th, 2010
gunneos
wow! how….?
Aug 27th, 2010
hewtab
amazing!
Aug 27th, 2010
may
Awesome….I want one….masterpiece
Aug 28th, 2010
Truthiness
Michael Moore? Really?
Aug 28th, 2010
vikramkumar sharma
speechless ._.
Aug 28th, 2010
non
This is incredible. Anyone noticed, that the “base-page” is always related to the person?
Aug 28th, 2010
Cory
Love how David carradines “base-page” was Big-Bil
Aug 28th, 2010
gunneos
i still cant figure how he did it, so if someone’s nice enough to explain, please do. it’s amazing.
Aug 28th, 2010
Karin L.
Cool!!!
Aug 28th, 2010
Torjan
Make mine, it will be more awesome than the ones above…
Really and you Can even store soldiers.
Aug 28th, 2010
Madison S.
WOW.
Aug 28th, 2010
Todd T.
How is that done?! I am blown away… amazing!
Aug 28th, 2010
rania
perfect hhhhhhhhhh
i like it
Aug 28th, 2010
Lola
Regarding how the artist made those works:
“With the book, a very sharp X-ACTO® knife, a little pot of acrylic medium to set detail areas and a great deal of talent, Queral literally peels away the pages like the skin of an onion to reveal the portrait within. Once the carving is complete, he will often apply a black wash to enhance the features and then seal the entire book with acrylic to preserve the work. However, he never loses the line registration; and the book remains quite pliable.”
That’s from the artist’s profile page at Projects Gallery’s website, which Toxel links to. :)
Aug 28th, 2010
someone
wow amazing stuff
Aug 29th, 2010
Alex Queral
Thanks for all your kind comments. I just want to point out that the piece entitled “David Carradine” is actually of country music songwriter Billy Joe Shaver but is entitled “Superman Retired” because his face reminded me of George Reeves who played Superman in the 50’s (no relation to later Superman Christopher Reeves)kind of like if Superman grew old, retired, and let his hair grow long.
I have no idea how it acquired D.Carradine’s name in this blog, or whatever this is.
Aug 30th, 2010
Raads
erm…. well… oh! it seems i am speechless! XD
Aug 31st, 2010
Art of Concept
Really impressive! Very nice, unique work!
Sep 2nd, 2010