Beautiful artwork on spines of stacked books

elephantbooksartArtist Mike Stilkey is painting artistic images on the spines of stacked books. His art is called “book sculptures”. Stilkey uses acrylics and colored pencil to form one image of beautiful and elegant humans and animal that reminds of German expressionism.

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  1. GMR

    Love the artistry and concept, but the books…oh, the agony! =((

  2. Primary Colors

    absolutely incredible!! Art preserving art!

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