Optical illusion cut-out and fold characters. This article is automatically post by WP-AutoPost. 12 Amazing Light Lamps And Chandeliers Created Using Daily Life Objects. Since very long time artist have been trying to create incredible thing by the using recycled material. DIY home improvement products that uses these kind of miscellaneous objects too are getting more and more popular with people all over the globe because they yield us a tangible, real way to draw a little deviation in our waste imprint as a species.
There are lots of DIY light fixture projects out there to select from if you’re interested – these are some of our findings. Although not ALL of these ideas are recycling related, but these DIY lamp and chandelier projects will prevent your home beautifully lit and your wallet fat. 1. Paper Starburst Pendant Light Image credits: Gabrielle Guy | the3rsblog.wordpress.com 2. Image credits: makezine.com 3. Designed by Isabelle Mcallister 4. Designed by Benoît Vieubled 5. Image credits: recyclart.org 6. Designed by Calabarte 7. Designed by Joe O’Connell and Blessing Hancock 8. Image credits: unknown 9. Image credits: blogilates.com | michellebrand.co.uk. Craft Related Links | Zap! Creatives. Check our directory of really useful web links below.
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A while ago I saw Mark Frauenfelder's limited edition Moleskin notebooks on BoingBoing and immediately thought of using the electrolytic brass etching process that I've been experimenting with to make some similar notebooks to give as gifts this year. As you can see they came out quite well and the Moleskin's two century history lends the project a certain Steampunk street cred. This is a technique I adapted for easily impressing images into brass plate. Next we use an iron set to it's highest setting to melt the toner onto the brass plate. Green, Cedric. 92-Year-Old Grandmother Uses Her Nimble Fingers to Create Amazingly Complex Temari Balls. These stunning embroidered balls called "temari" were made by the prodigiously nimble fingers of a 92-year-old grandmother in Japan. Although she only learned this elaborate skill in her sixties, she has since created nearly 500 unique designs that have been photographed by her granddaughter NanaAkua.
Impressive does not even begin to describe this feat of dexterity, imagination and keen eyesight. The difficult process of becoming a recognized temari craftsman in Japan is tedious and requires specific training and testing. She now volunteers every week teaching others how to make their own temari. Temari, meaning "hand ball" in Japanese, are embroidered toy balls fashioned from the silk scraps of old kimonos. This traditional folk art originated in China and made its way to Japan some time in the 7th century. In Japan, the temari were highly regarded gifts given to children by their parents on New Year's Day. NanaAkua's flickr via [trendhunter] Unpro: Screen Printing Basics. Copper Plating and Etching Altoids Tins. UPDATE: There's some great information on this page and it's comments, but I've recently published a far more comprehensive article here: Etching Tins with Salt Water and Electricity With this project I wanted to try a number of new things: Magazine pages as cheap toner transfer mediaCopper electroplatingEtching Altoid tins with a salt water solution The copper plating met with mixed success, but the other two methods resulted in some nice pieces.
Note: blue vitriol and muriatic acid are archaic names for copper sulfate and hydrochloric acid. Magazine pages for toner transfer: While looking for information on transferring toner using a fuser assembly from an old laser printer I ran across several websites where people suggested using glossy magazine pages for transferring printed circuit board images to a copper substrate. Preparing the Altoids tins turned out to be harder then I predicted. Next we: Copper Plating Altoids Tins: From the picture below, this appears to work. Foom! Indigo Arts Gallery | Huichol Indian Art. Danwebb - writing. I make things out of many different materials, which doesn’t make me particularly unusual.
What does make me unusual is that I have chosen to carve some of them, a method that virtually none of my contemporary colleagues seem to share. The result is that I am asked to explain the carving aspect of my work more often than almost anything else. And the funny thing is that the more I’m asked about it, the lousier I am at coming up with an answer. Not that I haven’t thought about it. Quite the opposite. It turns out that I’ve thought on it so much that the answer just keeps getting longer and more complicated, so long and unwieldy at this point that my answer goes mostly unsaid. I could try sound bites of course. Still, the question deserves a response.
The Six Things Before art, there was carving. In short, carving seemed badass, and I wanted to learn how to do it. Another thing my young self hadn’t counted on is that expending all that effort might have been pointless anyway.