Designed for rebels of the art world, the LASH portable light makes graffiti easy! The flexible attachment adapts to any universal spray can and stays put thanks to its gripping silicon and PC material. Bright LED light illuminates your workspace, but not so much that you’ll alert anyone nearby. Whether you’re an underground graffitist or a night-owl of a painter, it’s a must-have addition to any street artist’s toolkit.
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I never cared much for the late Thomas Kinkade’s paintings. To me they just seemed boring and a little too pretty. Well, whether you like his work or not, I think we can all agree that adding Star Wars into them makes them much better.
These images were embellished by artist Jeff Bennett. Jeff has added imagery from the Star Wars universe into Kinkade’s idyllic and peaceful settings and now they are wayyyy more amazing and interesting. I would actually buy and hang these in my home.
Now there are stormtroopers, a Rancor, star destroyers and more in Kinkade’s art.
It’s as if the Empire has invaded a quiet Christmas village and turned it into an Imperial base.
Halloween is almost here and everyone is dressing up for the occasion — even animals. Like Raven the horse, she’s painted like a skeleton. The handiwork was done by Sandy Cramer. You can see Raven the skeleton horse in person horse at Knot Just Rope in Rockbridge, Ohio. Or you can just peep all the [...] Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.
Have you ever wanted to be a part of Star Wars? Well, now is your chance to become a part of the movie that changed movies forever. You, my friend, can be choked by our favorite Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader. This painting will live for all time and it can be your gasping face above Vader’s strangling hand.
Etsy seller FeatherStonePortrait will use his Alias Art series to put you into the movie through a painting. Just give him a picture and a great idea to get started.
There are no limits to what you can create. Have Vader choke you out. Ride a Bantha. Slay an Ewok. Proudly hold Jar Jar’s decapitated head in your hand! You can re-think, tweak and approve your painting every step of the way while you speak with the artist directly as he creates your piece. Awesome. Prices range from $375 to $675 (USD) to you live out your movie fantasies.
In news that will make you go :’(, artist Leandro Granato uses his tear ducts to paint. Basically while we’re over here doing this :’(, he’s over there doing this :’)”””””””” to a canvas. How does he do it? More importantly, why? You’re right, one thing at a time: Leandro snorts the paint through his [...] Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.
In the future, we may not need to go to museums and other repositories of art in order to admire paintings and sculptures. We may be able to print inch-perfect replicas of artworks that, to the untrained eyes, look exactly the same as the original. Engineer Tim Zaman showed that it’s possible to make high quality and full color scans of paintings using off the shelf devices. But for now, it takes a rare and proprietary 3D printer to turn those scans into accurate replicas.
For his master thesis at the Delft University of Technology, Tim built a custom 3D scanner composed of two Nikon D800E cameras with 80mm PC-E lenses and a polarization filter and a picoprojector that also has a polarization filter. Tim said his rig enabled him to combine two 3D scanning techniques – stereoscopic scanning and fringe projection – allowing for scans with a resolution of 50 micrometers (μm) and a depth precision of 9.2 μm. Skip to around 1:52 in the video below to see Tim talk to the BBC about his project:
In his reply to a commenter on YouTube, Tim said that it takes him one day to scan a 1 sq.m. (approx. 11 sq.ft.) surface. Printing the resulting file can take up to a day as well. Not that you’d be able to do so with just any 3D printer. The miraculous machine in the video below and the 3D printing process it uses were developed by Océ, a printing company owned by Canon. The painting that was replicated here is Rembrandt’s The Jewish Bride.
That is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in my life. No doubt visual artists and art critics will have to come to terms with the off-putting consequences of this technology. What is the value of a painting if it can have infinite perfect replicas? Should one’s appreciation of a painting or sculpture be informed by the knowledge of its authenticity if you can’t tell the difference between an original work and its replica? But as Tim stated in his thesis, the fruits of his labor can also be applied to study, conserve and restore works of art. Head to Tim’s website or YouTube channel if you want to find out more about his research.
Brent is a chimpanzee who paints. His technique is a little unconventional — he makes the art with his mouth using child-safe tempera paints. And this guy isn’t monkeying (!!!) around either: he won this year’s online chimp art contest put on by the Humane Society. Because the online chimp art contest is a thing that [...] Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.
Think your latest Instagram shot could be a masterpiece? Then have it painted on canvas and show the whole world your awesome shot in a traditional medium.
You could commission your own artist, or you could just send it off to Pixelist.
Pixelist is a service that promises to deliver hand-made paintings of your Instagram image of choice. Their campaign is currently up on Indiegogo, where you can get a 12×12 Pixelist painting by making a minimum pledge of $90(USD).
If you want to have a regular-sized image printed, then you can cough up $10 more to get the 12×16 painting. Prices go up from there for larger sizes.
Pixelist aims to use the money raised from their Indiegogo campaign to set up a website and spread the word about their awesome service. If you’re interested, head on over to their page before the end of the day on 7/25 and make a pledge!
Sometimes, I get the feeling that digital artwork lacks the personal touch that you find in traditional artwork. You can’t really see the strokes the artist made on the canvas, for one, and any errors or misplaced strokes are quickly edited out.
If you’re a fan of watercolor art and want to get the best of both worlds, then you might want to consider getting the WaterColorBot.
The WaterColorBot was conceived by 12-year-old Sylvia Todd in collaboration with Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. It’s basically a robot that turns digital vector artwork into actual watercolor paintings. All you need to do is feed the bot with a digital file of the image, and it will then set out to work to create a watercolor replica of that image.
The ‘bot is dubbed as a “friendly and educational art robot” and has high potential for STEM and STEAM education, especially as a means to get younger people interested in robotics and technology.
The WaterColorBot is currently up for funding on Kickstarter, where you can get one of your very own with a minimum pledge of $295(USD).
Illustrator Elizabeth Sherry likes to make classical-style art based on videogame characters. No, not 8-bit. She went way more old school than that. Her digital paintings even have cracks and creases on them to make them look really old.
The one above is my favorite, but her Mario still life is a close second.
Elizabeth said she’ll be selling prints of her artwork at the Toronto Fan Expo, but she’s also accepting orders online. Head to her blog or her deviantART page to contact her and check out her other artwork.
