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 [...]
Neat Blog: Ric Warren’s Urban Architecture Studies in Italy becomes his ArtIf 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, [...] |
Origami Tube!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! |
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Lisa Hamilton’s artwork is an unexpected use of common artist materials: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 [...] |