How To Paint 3D Prints with Acrylic Paint
How To Paint 3D Prints With Acrylic Paint In this post, i’m going to show you my first experiments with painting 3D PLA plastic prints made with the Ultimaker2 3D printer with acrylic paint and how you can do the same thing your creations and start to learn how to…
Cities Of The Imagination Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire 2016
Cities Of The Imagination Edinburgh Maker Faire 2016… Make a city using pen, paper and card. Upgrade it later using 3D graphics and Maker technologies… This is about the cities of the imagination Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire 2016 event. If you didn’t attend, I still want you to make your…
Make A Retrofuturistic Spaceship In 3D Graphics
Make This Retrofuturistic Spaceship Do you want to make a retrofuturistic spaceship? I love them, especially those retro futuristic ones, I guess it is from my youth in the 80s and 90s. A lot of people who work in 3D are fed up with seeing spaceships. I kind of know what…
Learning Through Play – Get More Creative
Learning through play for your creative projects… “play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.” (Johannes Itten) When I was 19 years old a while compiling a portfolio for art college, I picked up a big heavy design book about the Bauhaus and found this quote above by the Swiss expressionist artist,…
Selected Artwork Catalogue 2012-2015…
Selected Artwork Catalogue 2012-2015… I just made a slideshare catalogue of my selected artwork from 2012-2015. I have gone on a big journey both with my work and also life in these last few years that in many ways I could not anticipate. Life is out there, I look forward…
Lessons Learned At The EchoFab FabLab Residency In Montreal…
In this Youtube video, I talk about some of the important things that I learned at the EchoFab, FabLab during my artistic residency there. About the machines and how I used them etc. Feel free to ask anything or make comments. FabLabs are great places if you are an artist,…
7- EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Seven…Form Filling…
Sometimes late at night, I have my best ideas. In my mind, I developed an idea of the final form. In turn, this had to be evolved there and then. If not I feared that I would lose it the next day. I prototyped the rough shape in 3dsMax. Below…
2 – EchoFab Fablab Artist In Residence Day Two…
Although I only spent some time in the Fablab, I found out a lot in the time spent there. Today, I wanted to test a simple ‘cloud’ form. I might develop cloud forms in the final piece so I wanted to test getting them built up layer by layer using…
Life Drawing In Montreal…
Syn Studios in Montreal is a great place that teaches people from all over the World cutting edge processes and ideas for the TV, film and entertainment industries. They also do a life drawing class which is on Fridays at the moment. Here are some drawings I made there. It is…
Art Souterrain in Montreal…
Today was the last day of Art Souterrain in Montreal. Here, contemporary artists display their art inside the giant linked ‘underground city’ of Montreal. These giant underground commercial malls contain all the usual chain shops along with more independent shops too. The artwork is often interesting and very contemporary. All…