A portrait of President Obama was created by artist David Macaluso using used motor oil. It would be great to learn how the artist created all the tones with the oil. Was anything added to vary the color? Or was it the techinique of applying it? Either way it shows there is no end to the materials an artist can use to make art. Here is a video showing him create a painting using the oil.
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Jorge Colombo has produced many digital paintings on the iPhone using the Brushes program. One of his paintings made it on the cover of the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker. Jorge said it took him one hour on 42nd street and was able to paint without anyone bothering him. He seems to enjoy the ability to paint and have everyone think he is doing something else.
Thanks to an iPhone application called Brushes artists can digitally paint whenever the mood strikes. You can either paint over a photo or create a new painting from scratch.
The program features claims to have the best color picker available on the iPhone, realistic brushes, eyedropper tool, unlimited undo and redo, and zoom features.
This program seems to be something really useful and entertaining to artists. I am planning on getting this program and will write back a review on it later. Flickr group of Brushes users’ paintings.
William Betts takes security camera photos and using a system that converts the pixels of color into data that a machine can take and put a dot of paint to represent that pixel. The final result is a large format pointillism painting. I would enjoy seeing this in person because I have a feeling the photos do not give it a good representation. A full look at his portfolio shows more work using machine facilitated paintings.
Source: Zeray Gazette via Neatorama
Khoda is a 5 minute animation in which every frame was hand painted. Taking roughly 6,000 paintings and two years, this animation was inspired by the idea of being able to pause the animation at any point and have it be “like a painting.”
Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.
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We love time lapse videos of artists creating artwork and this is a great one from Robert Burden of a painting of Voltron.
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Painted Pumpkins
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CNC Machined Pumpkin
Source: Make
PacMan Pumpkins
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Mega Man Pumpkin
Source: Instructables
Abbey Ryan creates a painting a day and posts it to a blog. This seems a great way to keep up practice and time management. Abbey also sells the paintings on ebay or on etsy.
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I love time lapse videos of any artwork creation. This one is of Gus Harper painting a large collection of roses.
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Great speed painting by Martin Missfeldt. The session took 4 hours to complete in Photoshop CS3. I love how the artist choose to have someone in the scene painting the scene. Very creative.
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