Steve Casino Artist
When you look at an old used tin of anchovies, a discarded Bic lighter or a pair of defunct Dr Dre headphones, what do you see? Nothing special, right? Just a pile of old trash. Yet for artist Steve Casino, discarded items can be the starting point for amazing sculptures he calls 'monster infestations'. Best known for his awesome peanut shell art, which we've featured in the past, Casino also loves sculpting and painting the most unlikely of crazy characters into used or broken things. What a way to recycle! Take a look below!
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Steve Casino, better known as the 'Painter of Nuts' creates detailed celebrity figurines out of peanut shells and mixed media. His collection includes big names like James Brown, Andy Warhol. Steve Wynn created some of Las Vegas' most notable casinos, including The Mirage, Treasure Island, Bellagio and Wynn Las Vegas. He resigned as Wynn Resorts' chairman and CEO in February 2018 after. Steve Casino, Painter Of Nuts. 86,813 likes 250 talking about this. Insanely Tiny Portraits On Peanuts. Tags: Steve Casino, Willie Nelson. This entry was posted on Monday, February 10th, 2014 at 7:27 am and is filed under Willie Nelson Art. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Fab pieces from Steve Casino via Hi-Fructose. Cincinnati-based artist Steve Casino is known for his peanut art (which landed him a spot in the records of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not), but lately, he’s tackled another endeavor: making wooden pull toys packed with pop culture and mature flair.
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Made by artist Steve Casino, the tiny sculptures are made from peanut shells with the contents removed before being glued back together and sanded to prep them for painting over. He equips each of the peanuts with sticks for legs and arms, as well as various media for other accessories, then sets them up on a base to get them standing upright.
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Once he’s built the figures, he then paints over each one, turning the peanuts into miniature likenesses of various characters. When finished, each piece is bathed in a finish of polyurethane coating for strength and longevity. He’s produced a large variety of the miniature figures, which include comic book characters (Spiderman, Batman, Wonder Woman), film and TV characters (Addams Family, Star Trek, Frankenstein, James Bond), musicians (Bono, Elton John) and more.
Aside from the finish figures, Steve also does commission work, so you can request Peanut Sculptures of anyone you want, from the Planters Mr. Peanut dude to Snoopy and the cast of Peanuts to your nutty mother in law. Each sculpture is shipped with a display case to further keep damage away when you show them off at your desk in the office.
Pricing for the Peanut Sculptures start at $175, but that quickly adds up depending on the kind of paint job and accessories (hair, musical instruments, extra limbs) thrown in.