Steve Casino Transforms Peanuts into Awesome Pop Culture Portraits

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Casino is nuts about pop culture so much so that the artist paints life like renditions of our favorite characters onto peanuts! With the classic Mr. Peanut as inspiration, Casino uses the snacky shells as his canvas. Each peanut is transformed into a meticulous portrait of characters like Captain Kirk, Spock, James Bond (Sean Connery of course) and Frankstein to musicians like Trent Reznor and Elvis Costello.

Royalty made of nuts

Ohio based artist Steve Casino has given a series of nuts a royal makeover creating tiny replicas of Britain's Royal family. He spent over 362 hours carving and painting the tiny royals.

The nutty royal figurines and scenes were created using a variety of nuts including almonds and coconuts.

The artist also regularly creates other characters from nuts and paints on items like Tic Tacs, once he painted a Van Gogh picture on a Tic Tac, for example.

The royal miniatures are part of a promotion for London-based milk company Plenish.

Steve Casino Painter of Nuts - Would We Care If It Wasn't A Peanut

Stuck in a creative rut? Think outside the canvas. Artist Steve Casino is a painter of nuts. Yes, we said nuts, peanuts actually and they ar.

Stuck in a creative rut? Think outside the canvas. Artist Steve Casino is a painter of nuts. Yes, we said nuts, peanuts actually and they are amazing little pieces of work.

Casino and his art have been very well received around the world so we had to contact Steve to get some insight into his creative process and the reaction to his nuts, this is what he told Great-Ads: "Having failed at many creative endeavors before I created these, it's fantastic to be this well-received in such a short time. Six months ago they didn't exist. Now there are galleries that want to work with me and suddenly I have options. There have also been commissions from all around the world with people who have seen the work online. That's a lot of fun in its own way. The clients have been really nice and had a sense of humor about it. Lastly, the "nut" jokes and puns have been funny to stupid to cruel. But I'm glad. Because if I'd painted these little pictures on anything else but a peanut, nobody would care!"