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I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.
Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.
Oh, then Etch A Sketch it right out of your head. Chelle
When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
You can't sculpt a pebble.
With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
laid out the quill, ink, sand, and paper.
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
Mercy's eyes held equal parts shock, and delight. "Riley."
He felt his lips stretch even wider. "I think we need to celebrate with some brand-new etchings."
His cat's laugh was surprised and warm and the sound of home. "It's your etchings that got us into this position.
What are you creating?
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it.
The itch of scribbling.
3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.
When making an axe handle
the pattern is not far off.
Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!
I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.
I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
I want to continue making things.
Say that again said the red gash in the white putty.
I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.
Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science.
The best way to carve is not to split.
Graft at your craft!
I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable.
The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension ... additive/subtractive.
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually ... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.
Ohio plastics plant, had
Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.
When in doubt, scribble.
Some things are more important than polished stone.
Carving?"
"Your name. My back. I can't fucking wait."
Jane whistled under her breath. "Do I get to do it?"
He barked a laugh. "No!"
"Come on. I'm a surgeon, I'm good with knives.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.
I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.
The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth
and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.
The toughest metal melts when the maker has an issue ...
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
Don't think it, ink it.
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.
Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.
You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed.
Even a diamond can be polished.
I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.
Somebody was using the pencil.
We are type designers, punch cutters, wood cutters, type founders, compositors, printers, and book binders from conviction and with passion, not because we are insufficiently talented for other higher things, but because for us the highest things stand in close kinship to those ends
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.
Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces ... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.
I have very limited craftsmanship. And a lot of the stuff I make plays on that.
Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
chop down your Crafting Table,
What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.
I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.
ballpoint pens guaranteed right on them to write a lifetime on butter under water,
A carpenter is known by his chips.
I like arts and crafts.
I want to build some thing permanent.
Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.
For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.
It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.
Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.
On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!
I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
Staplers--- Excellent source of iron
The materials shape your idea.
One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.
You need to know your craft.
Ah, you mean the thing with the brass plate on it saying 'Improved Manicure Device,' Archchancellor?
I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.
You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.
Once you engrave your name on something, you create history
I have a thing for tools.
I was hired as a penciler.