{"id":604,"date":"2012-07-17T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/wine-cork-portraits-by-scott-gundersen\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:58:00","slug":"wine-cork-portraits-by-scott-gundersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/wine-cork-portraits-by-scott-gundersen\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/colossal\/~3\/gstJ6_7h1ug\/\">Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen<\/a>: <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen wine portraits cork \" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cork-1.jpg?resize=625%2C781\" title=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen\" width=\"625\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen wine portraits cork \" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cork-2.jpg?resize=625%2C625\" title=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen\" width=\"625\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen wine portraits cork \" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cork-3.jpg?resize=625%2C414\" title=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen\" width=\"625\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen wine portraits cork \" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cork-4.jpg?resize=625%2C621\" title=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen\" width=\"625\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen wine portraits cork \" height=\"910\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cork-5.jpg?resize=625%2C910\" title=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen\" width=\"625\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen wine portraits cork \" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cork-6.jpg?resize=625%2C417\" title=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen\" width=\"625\"><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen wine portraits cork \" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cork-7.jpg?resize=625%2C415\" title=\"Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen\" width=\"625\"><br \/>I\u2019ve been known to pocket the occasional sentimental wine cork, but that\u2019s nothing compared to the thousands of used and recycled corks needed by Grand Rapids-based illustrator and artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scottgundersen.art\">Scott Gundersen<\/a> to complete his large scale portraits. Starting with a large photograph that\u2019s transferred to a drawing, Gundersen pins each cork to the canvas, creating a correlation between the hues of the wine-stained corks and the value of light or shadow in the portrait. His latest work, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/45818343\">Trisha<\/a>, took 3,621 corks to complete, but other works have <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/14160479\">required over 9,000<\/a>. Watch the timelapse videos above to see how he does it.  And can I add, what I wouldn\u2019t give to have a completely idyllic barn studio. Such a beautiful space.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/colossal\/~4\/gstJ6_7h1ug\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine Cork Portraits by Scott Gundersen: I\u2019ve been known to pocket the occasional sentimental wine cork, but that\u2019s nothing compared to the thousands of used and recycled corks needed by Grand Rapids-based illustrator and artist Scott Gundersen to complete his large scale portraits. Starting with a large photograph that\u2019s transferred to a drawing, Gundersen pins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-9K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}