I come across artists using unusual media (mediums?) all the time and I always think "I should post that" but I never do because it would be such a limited thread.
Today I came across another one and I thought to myself: why not a generic thread about artists who use unusual things to create their art?
So here it is.
Ballpoint pen artist "VianaArts"
From his/her website:
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Q:How many colors do you have and what pens are these?
A: I have 8 colored Bic ballpoint pens, for this I used 6 of them plus black. They are just common everyday ballpoint pens.
You know, (damn it), given a 100 years and a billion dollars I couldn't do what some of these artists do with stuff I have laying around the house in spades.
This will sound like a cult thing, but was how I first started, though I never did his zillion repetitions - have you read Nicolaides? I'm sure his mode is well gone, but he got my attention.
Personally I'm a slob with some intricacy fits.
I gather my stuff together from time to time.
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farmerman
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Wed 22 Aug, 2012 10:11 pm
ultrarealism like that, with little reinterpretation usuallymeans that the artist uses an opaque projector. Ill bet she uses a photo projector for the hair and the layout.
Heres a piece by George Norrison, a member of the Chippewa tribe along le Lac Huron'.
He was a great interpreter of the stark landscapes of the Range and the lakes. His found wood creations usually had a horizon line that caught the banks of the LAke.
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tsarstepan
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Fri 24 Aug, 2012 06:43 am
To help this thread continue along, it might be helpful to figure a basic list of artistic mediums which belong to the usual suspects.
I went to see this artist's retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2008. Some of his abstract drawings/paintings, his medium is gunpowder: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang stands in front of a gunpowder drawing, Desire for Zero Gravity, at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Cai uses a pyrotechnic process to burn shapes into large-scale canvases. http://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148234178/gunpowder-on-canvas-literally-explosive-art
That would be cool -- I was thinking the same sort of thing! I imagine there are a lot of people who would like something wonderful and unusual like that.
I love the videos. The process an artist uses is always something I enjoy watching. I'm fascinated by the way they can put a bit here... and a bit there... and a bit more right there and it seems so disconnected but it all ends up together. It's such a different way of seeing space than I can wrap my own head around.
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boomerang
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Tue 28 Aug, 2012 07:15 am
I just now came across this, attributed to Sister Corita Kent, on an education forum:
I think rule #8 addresses my particular fascination.....
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