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Shower Curtain Contest! Draw your own shower curtain and enter your design to win.

May 112012
 

Grain Ty DIY Shower Curtain Design

Ran across this interesting contest for art, design, and crafty DIY types. Sounds fun!

From the website:

“Here’s a handmade project for you: design your own shower curtain. Grain’s Ty is a simple #2 plastic shower curtain. … The curtain comes with a choice of  black, blue or green permanent marker.

Grain has teamed up with IAMTHELAB for a super fun contest. Purchase your Ty curtain today and then enter your design in our giveaway.

Design a show-stopping shower curtain and then send a picture of it to brett@iamthelab.com.

We will be accepting submissions starting today, May 9, 2012 through May 31st. On June 4th, 2012,  we will post our favorite 5 designs here on LAB CASA  and the readers will pick their favorite. … It’s a great way to support a true indie shop and explore your creativity. Plus you get to show off your skills. Have fun!”

More details and how to purchase your shower curtain to draw on HERE.

 

(Just to clarify, this is NOT a contest involving The Loft in any way, just something we thought you might like to try.)

Neat Blog: Ric Warren’s Urban Architecture Studies in Italy becomes his Art

May 102012
 

If you’re not one of those lucky people heading to Italy this summer to study art or design, you can live vicariously through Scottish artist Ric Warren by exploring his blog of his Italian travel experience.

Warren is a printmaker and sculptor who went to Italy in 2008 to study urban design of the renaissance, which fed his artwork. It was his creative research, and he writes about the connections he makes between what he sees, what it makes him think, and how it informs his artwork. It’s an interesting insight into an artists mind, which is often set into high gear by the new experiences world travel offers. Check it out!

lucca-chiesa-san-michele-picture-italy-tuscany

Origami Tube!

May 092012
 
Origami Dragon

Image from everything-about-japan.blogspot.com.

I was looking up origami paper to order and ran across this cool site: videos of origami projects. Very fun to watch, even if you never make anything!

Lisa Hamilton’s artwork is an unexpected use of common artist materials:

May 072012
 
Lisa Hamilton Drawing

Untitled (layered drawing two reds) 2010 oil stick on cut paper over oil stick on paper 27" x 18"

I ran across artist Lisa Hamilton‘s super-colorful, geometric abstractions today and was surprised to learn which materials she’s making her graphic artworks with. Many of her works on paper are made with oil stick on Japanese paper. I used to think oil stick was a great medium for portraiture or expressionism, but here she uses it to make intensely colored, flat shapes with sharp edges. Not only that, but she uses it on Japanese paper while I’d always thought a more sturdy paper surface was necessary. I love being surprised by new uses for standard artist materials! Not sure how she gets those sharp edges: a ruler or paper stencil perhaps? But it makes perfect sense now to achieve such intense colors using a medium like oil stick that can offer that. Her website is packed with many images and is easy to navigate. Enjoy! -Leslie

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