The Artwork Thread

[randombs]

It's definitely art!

Quite mesmerising to look at

[Blobcat]

OOOooooOOOoooh I like that! Any tutorial available online?

Battled with my stained glass window on Saturday leading it and I am hoping by the end of the weekend its fully loaded with lead just needs fixing and cementing. Shall post pics once done, I'm getting back into liking it again but I'm now entering the part with the smallest pieces which is a total arse. Looking forward to my next one, I may do something nerdy.

[QualityChimp]

Gutted I missed this, but yikes it's expensive!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1993782747/a-to-z-of-the-designers-republic/description

[QualityChimp]

https://mobile.twitter.com/crrrutch/status/702599325755510785

Just stumbled across this great picture by CRRRUTCH, which is cover art for a band called Shudan (just listened, not my thing).

They work at Blizzard Entertainment!

[Dogg Thang]

Gutted I missed this, but yikes it's expensive!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ic/description

Oh, I missed this too. I still have an old book from back in the day but this would be great.

[importaku]

OOOooooOOOoooh I like that! Any tutorial available online?

Battled with my stained glass window on Saturday leading it and I am hoping by the end of the weekend its fully loaded with lead just needs fixing and cementing. Shall post pics once done, I'm getting back into liking it again but I'm now entering the part with the smallest pieces which is a total arse. Looking forward to my next one, I may do something nerdy.

Why yes there is Blobcat, that's how i learned to make them. There's several videos on youtube showing slightly different designs depending on how you fold & roll the paper, you may have to slow the video speed down in parts to pick it up but it's reasonably easy to make but very time intensive. Took about 7 hours to make one ball, i made one while watching films so i might have gone faster if i didn't get distracted lol.


Cutting paper circles is a chore though you may want to invest in a compass cutter it's invaluable for cutting perfect circles really quickly.

[Blobcat]

Thanks for posting!

[importaku]

No probs, grab some paper & have a go it's pretty fun

[eastyy]

For all you artists out there https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ack-30/rewards

[QualityChimp]

For all you artists out there https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ack-30/rewards

This has popped up a few times on my Facebook feed.

The interesting thing about this is how another artist, Anish Kapoor, invented the first "blacker than black" paint, but refused to let anyone else use it, so another artist created "pinker than pink" for everyone to use except Anish Kapoor.

Kapoor got hold of some and sent a picture of his middle finger dipped in that paint.

Now, every time there's a new black paint all the artists say Anish Kapoor can't use it.
The very first paragraph of this campaign is:
"Important: By backing this project you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not backing this on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make its way into the hands of Anish Kapoor."

[eastyy]

This has popped up a few times on my Facebook feed.

The interesting thing about this is how another artist, Anish Kapoor, invented the first "blacker than black" paint, but refused to let anyone else use it, so another artist created "pinker than pink" for everyone to use except Anish Kapoor.

Kapoor got hold of some and sent a picture of his middle finger dipped in that paint.

Now, every time there's a new black paint all the artists say Anish Kapoor can't use it.
The very first paragraph of this campaign is:
"Important: By backing this project you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not backing this on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make its way into the hands of Anish Kapoor."

I heard about that originally from this vid

Actually was not invented by Anish Kapoor though was invented by another company (the Vanta black ) but he bought the exclusive rights to it,

[importaku]

This has popped up a few times on my Facebook feed.

The interesting thing about this is how another artist, Anish Kapoor, invented the first "blacker than black" paint, but refused to let anyone else use it, so another artist created "pinker than pink" for everyone to use except Anish Kapoor.

Kapoor got hold of some and sent a picture of his middle finger dipped in that paint.

Now, every time there's a new black paint all the artists say Anish Kapoor can't use it.
The very first paragraph of this campaign is:
"Important: By backing this project you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not backing this on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make its way into the hands of Anish Kapoor."

Have some of Stuarts paint it's surprisingly good stuff, the neon pigments are eye burningly bright in person plus the glow pigment is pretty powerful stuff bought a batch of various stuff as a weird bonus all his paints seem to smell of black cherries lol. The current black he sells is good but you have to use it in a specific way to maximise it's matt light absorbing qualities, haven't found a lot of projects to use that stuff on yet, planning on using his pigments in resin craft though.

[eastyy]

Have some of Stuarts paint it's surprisingly good stuff, the neon pigments are eye burningly bright in person plus the glow pigment is pretty powerful stuff bought a batch of various stuff as a weird bonus all his paints seem to smell of black cherries lol. The current black he sells is good but you have to use it in a specific way to maximise it's matt light absorbing qualities, haven't found a lot of projects to use that stuff on yet, planning on using his pigments in resin craft though.

Am tempting to back it for the wife, she likes to do space pictures so thinking it would do great for that only problem is she uses oil paintings mostly so not sure how well it would work

[importaku]

Am tempting to back it for the wife, she likes to do space pictures so thinking it would do great for that only problem is she uses oil paintings mostly so not sure how well it would work

This was Stuarts first attempt at making a really black paint he still has supplies of the pigment on it's own it can be mixed with linseed oil to make oil paint this is only version 1 though. The later versions are even darker and more matte

https://culturehustle.com/collections/powders/products/black-1-0-pigment-50g-legacy-version

[Blobcat]

My stained glass window of Brighton's West Pier is finally complete!



It took way too bloody long and I was an idiot for using tiny cuts for my first piece but I do feel it worked out well in the end.
It's still at the workshop as we are in the process of moving to a new flat once things are good with the landlord and our new contract so I don't want to risk it getting damaged. Currently sitting in the window of the studio. Very pleased and so glad I can start something else!