Creative recycling stationery: portraits of the buttons from Duncan Makaskilla

What are the only materials not used by artists and designers who seek not just to create a masterpiece, but also underline its commitment to "green" ideas to use recycled materials! Scottish artist Duncan MacAskill, who is known for creating masterpieces from a variety of stationery, this time opted for the buttons.





Duncan MacAskill is a real Creator, for which there are no barriers. He needs neither brush nor paint to paint, don't need a stone to carving the sculptures. As a material it uses stationery and argues that its utilization is the most "green" and creative recycling in the world.





The latest collection of his paintings is completely made of ordinary drawing pins. For example, to create black-and-white portrait of his father Makaskilla it took 25 thousand buttons. This work was presented at the Royal Opera House in London and received the highest praise from art critics.





In particular, this work drew designer Ally Capellino, who emphasized that the work is made from recycled materials and without the use of modern computer technologies – hand-made in pure form, but still with a "green tint". In addition to black-and-white portraits in the collection Makaskilla are abstract paintings of colored buttons to. Some of the buttons used by the artist, remained in its natural state, the other to produce the desired effect was painted.

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