If it weren’t for the fact that it would probably destroy them (?) it’d be interesting to run one of these through a table saw into 1/2″ slices, then arrange and glue them to a backing board. …
Have you ever done any marbling? I did a bit last year and managed to make a large number of grey swirly book flyleaf pages (I was experimenting with bookbinding at the time) If you look on youtube at “water paint” there is some insanely neat stuff. One thing that excites me is making acrylic paint films on water then wrapping them around fingernails, or whatever.
Have you ever done any marbling? I did a bit last year and managed to make a large number of grey swirly book flyleaf pages (I was experimenting with bookbinding at the time) If you look on youtube at “water paint” there is some insanely neat stuff. One thing that excites me is making acrylic paint films on water then wrapping them around fingernails, or whatever.
I have not. Water paint sounds intriguing, I’ll look that up. Thanks!
“Water painting nails” is a pretty cool search on youtube.
“Water painting guitar” is kind of mind blowing
The turkish technique for marbling is called “Ebru” -- if you search for ebru-making videos some of them are pretty mind-blowing. I always wanted to find a good ebru artist, set up some lights, and shoot ultra dense video suitable for adding dark trance music to…
rq says
OooooOOOoooo!!
Caine says
:D I went very minimal on this one, and it’s my favourite. I really like how this one turned out.
Marcus Ranum says
If it weren’t for the fact that it would probably destroy them (?) it’d be interesting to run one of these through a table saw into 1/2″ slices, then arrange and glue them to a backing board. …
Have you ever done any marbling? I did a bit last year and managed to make a large number of grey swirly book flyleaf pages (I was experimenting with bookbinding at the time) If you look on youtube at “water paint” there is some insanely neat stuff. One thing that excites me is making acrylic paint films on water then wrapping them around fingernails, or whatever.
Caine says
Marcus:
I have not. Water paint sounds intriguing, I’ll look that up. Thanks!
Marcus Ranum says
“Water painting nails” is a pretty cool search on youtube.
“Water painting guitar” is kind of mind blowing
The turkish technique for marbling is called “Ebru” -- if you search for ebru-making videos some of them are pretty mind-blowing. I always wanted to find a good ebru artist, set up some lights, and shoot ultra dense video suitable for adding dark trance music to…
Ice Swimmer says
The second picture is a pelargonium.
Caine says
Ice Swimmer:
:D This one definitely reads floral to me, both ways.