I have been experimenting with wax crayons and a heat gun. I decided to make a little video and upload it to you tube. 1. “Compressed…
I have been experimenting with wax crayons and a heat gun. I decided to make a little video and upload it to you tube. 1. Compressed Version of Playing with Crayons quicker to load but more blocky with less detail. 2. High Quality Version of Playing with Crayons higher quality with sharper pictures but first time it loads will be probably be very slow. If your internet connection is anything like mine (and mine is broadband). Some notes on this art experiment - 1. Melted wax crayons will leave an oily residue on paper so use canvas/ canvas paper. 2. Embossing heat gun will scorch paper if you hold too close too long. 3. Wax is light if you break it into small pieces and watch out for the heat gun blowing it away if you hold it too close – be gentle or use long barbeque tongs. 4. Hot – be careful :) 5. This was soooo much fun to do!!
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/ Travel the world from the comfort of your couch at the Travel and Adventure Group Get out your crayons / Break out your crayons and head over to the Coloring-In Group. Not Happy Campers / Happy people need not apply at the Emotive Photography Group Latests Groups / Don’t forget to check out all the other recent groups here.
Hello everyone !! Have set up home in the shaky Isles after a long relationship with Aussie. Just going through the tedious unpacking …
Hello everyone !! Have set up home in the shaky Isles after a long relationship with Aussie. Just going through the tedious unpacking stage whilst juggling “wow we can crawl’! twins. Having to change servers and a billion personal details I’ve decided moving is not very fun and I don’t want to play. :) Anyway just saying hello and that I haven’t fallen off the planet Dave ‘Art, who’s got time for art ??!!!
They’re out. We’re in. All evacuees have returned home with their families, animals and surfboards. The sky is blue. Life is good. / I’ve …
They’re out. We’re in. All evacuees have returned home with their families, animals and surfboards. The sky is blue. Life is good. / I’ve felt like a giant crumb to have vanished from so many friends here for the past month plus, not much time except a fast leap in every now and then, and I miss you one and all. RedBubble has been a terrific place for friendships for me. Please forgive my absence from your wonderful lives. A couple of great things happening (is this post-flaming karma?) 1. I sold 28 tee shirts on Zazzle. I know, I can’t believe it either. One customer, no art work. Just MARS ROCKS in honor of NASA’s landing on Mars. A total stranger in Salt Lake City, different sizes, Black with red and white lettering. The bad news is that I’d put them on sale, and lowered the percentage to ten. Out of almost six hundred dollars in sales, I get about sixty. If only…....but then they’d might not have bought at full price. I almost passed out. THERE’S HOPE OUT THERE!!! Who’d have dreamed it, not me. 2. I got an actual portrait commission. Two people in a family. Incredible project for me and good pay for it. About four to six months of work ahead, about 7 feet by 5 feet I’m figuring. Photos and downpayment to arrive this week sometime, and yes I’ll be buying up RBers work. An excellent Brooklyn lawyer once told me not to count on anything until the check cleared the bank. I know it’ll happen. Why do I keep waking up in a cold sweat, then run to the post office filled with hope. Okay, filled with hope is how I do things, precipice or not. 3. A new friend has just put up some of her strong and beautiful artwork on RedBubble. I’m impressed. I think she’s very good, and you’ll profit from a visit to her page. She’s graysart. I hope that comes up in the search engine because I’m still no good at making links here. Most of all, the dust has settled, the red skies night and day are gone, the gorgeous firemen from all over the globe (Australia, Canada, Samoans! – THANK YOU) went home. Then some genius decided it was the perfect time to repave the only road into town. We’ve had enough. We want to be left alone to cultivate our gardens and suntans and smell the roses. Nearly every tree in town has a sign tied to it, drawn by some precious juvenile in crayon, that shouts out “Thank you Firepeople!” in a hundred colors. It’s very touching, really. They were great. / And by the end of the week I hope to at least get back into the swing of all things RB, and if not catching up on all the splendid work of those I so love here, at least starting in on your latest creations. / My best to one and all, / Barbara / PS check out graysart.
In the last few weeks I’ve spent a lot of my spare time thinking about, planning, shooting, editing and uploading photos for the “Canon P…
In the last few weeks I’ve spent a lot of my spare time thinking about, planning, shooting, editing and uploading photos for the Canon Photo5 competition. The challenge of this competition has stretched me artistically in a way that I never even intended to happen. The Competition / The Photo5 competition is where Canon send you five everyday objects in the mail and you are challenged to produce and submit one photo containing each image. To make it exciting, you don’t know what the objects are until they arrive and, even better, Canon puts up $5,000 worth of Canon products for the best image of each object. The objects this year were: / . a ribbon / . a crayon / . a cocktail umbrella / . a tealight candle; and / . a small bottle of bubbles. I believe that this year 10,000 boxes were sent out and over 1,300 photos have been submitted for each object. What’s more, Canon have enlisted David Anderson and Montalbetti+Campbell as judges – world-class photographers who I anticipate will have huge expectations for the images that they’re prepared to present as finalists. Creating My Entries / In retrospect, I’ve realised that my photography up until now has always been subject-focussed; I would see a subject that I thought was visually interesting and so I would take a photo of it. This had often turned out pleasing results. With the Photo5 objects, however, I was facing the challenge of taking photos of subjects that were visually uninteresting, even trivial. I realised pretty quickly that these objects wouldn’t make an interesting photo. To turn them into something engaging, I needed to come up with some theme or story that would make an interesting photo and that could incorporate each object. This is probably painfully obvious to anyone who listened in Art class, but to someone whose best subject was Physics, this was a major revelation for the way I take photographs. I got pretty excited about this new concept of capturing themes. The consequence of my excitement was that I suddenly became open to trying all kinds of things I’d never tried before: I spent a whole lunchtime squatting in an alley photographing a wall; I asked one of my work colleagues to model for a photo; I tried (with fairly poor results) to turn my living room into a studio; I stayed up until 2 in the morning trying to do things in The GIMP that I’d only ever read about. I spent hours on each photo because I was excited by the idea of using photos to say something rather than just show something. Results / You can see the photos that I entered into the competition by clicking on the thumbnails below, but they’re not the sum total of what I achieved by entering the competition. The challenge it presented has done more to advance my art than any book I’ve ever read or any gear I’ve ever bought. In fact, it’s caused me to consider how few things that I’ve created up until now have actually been art. It seems quite unlikely that my images will make any great impact on the competition. While I’m really impressed by what I was able to create, statistically there is a 5 in 1300 chance that any of my images will be picked to be a finalist. If I am picked, it will be a fantastic feeling, and will go a long way to compensating for the damage done to my knees in that alley. But the real win for me has been finally realising that photography is about more than just the visual subject; it’s about the story. Having said that, I’ll also say that it’s not too late to register to vote for the winners. So if you think I might have a chance of being a finalist and that you might like to vote for me if I am, go to the Canon Photo5 site, then click on ‘Competition’ then on ‘register to vote’. Thanks / Lastly, I have to say some thankyous: to Mark, who entertained my bizarre request of modelling for a photo on a city street at lunch time; to Bec, for answering my urgent call to borrow a lab coat; and to my lovely wife, Amanda, for her modelling, her patience, and for refusing to believe that I had gone mad despite much evidence to the contrary. / Cheers, guys – I couldn’t have done it without you. I hope you enjoy my photos. Grazer / Thread of Life / Immaturity / homo workaholicus / Summer Love / Making Haloes
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