Toothpick Sculptures

Toothpick Sculptures like I have never seen before. Every now and then something incredibly mind blowing and inspiring comes into your life and for me this has happened to me while researching information for this site.

I came across Toothpick Sculptures and Toothpick Art. Now I am not saying that Matchstick Kits are not incredible, they indeed are, but some of the art I have found recently is simply incredible and I have never ever thought of doing it. Over the next few days I will be bringing you samples of what i have found – so hang around as it is simply awesome.

Today I will show you some work that started the incredible search into toothpick sculptures for me. I found this and then went searching. Now I have not only never seen this kind of art, but I never even thought of it until today, but I think this has inspired me to give it a try at least. I cannot imagine how long it takes to make this kind of art and iI am also not sure if he paints the toothpicks in advance or if they are naturally different colors from the manufacturer but I am going to research.

I think some of these pictures are worthy of display in museums and can challenge the originals. The originals may have been painted by some of the great master, but I think these artists are also great masters and not only have a great skill, but they have come up with something very unique.

It seems that they use the toothpicks standing on end and they pre-cut them to different sizes before laying them down on a template for their toothpick sculptures. I love the way they also seem to achieve shading not only using the color of the toothpicks, but I think by also changing the density of the toothpicks they use in any one area.

Toothpick Sculptures are not new, but I have only just come across this art form and this is something I would like to investigate further, so if you know of any other artists that are working with either matchsticks or with toothpicks or you know of any photos that should be included in this site, please let me know so I can check them out.

These toothpick sculptures are actually a combination of hammered nails, matchsticks and toothpicks and are made by Saimir Strati who is Albanian. I would like to thank the amazing arts site for the original article about these amazing toothpick sculptures.

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