Good day and welcome to The Grind and Bind Art Alchemist's Guild.
This is a dark place.
Most art will leave you feeling inspired, maybe even joyful — if not a little thoughtful. Not this art.
Most art makes people better, but this place can only make you worse, poorer, stained, and consumed by the craft.
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Cicada exoskeleton jewelry? Pop can tab armor? A wedding dress spun and knit from plastic bags?
What was your weirdest inspiration?
Hey! I just found this comm.
I took a bio- art class in uni and did a pointillism style portrait with chia seeds. If I had tough the project through I would have planned to have the conditions for the seeds to sprout, but it was a rush job, so it remained inert.
Hi! Welcome.
That's exactly the kind of thing I like to hear about, sounds painstaking and cool as hell.
There's at least one artist out there who makes clothing using roots and forms, not practical but very neat.
How big was your portrait?
Ohh that sounds interesting.
Portait was 40 x 50 cm aprox. And yeah it was a paaain in the ass to make XD.
Remembering those times I also had a class were we learned encaustic (painting with bees wax and resins), that might also count as an unconventional material. Really fun, but didn't really had a vision for what to do with it; so I ended up with a really bad abstract painting, which I have kept many years as a token of better times.
Encaustic is one of the few things I haven't done because it seems like cliff-side learning curve from "bad abstract" to "that looks like a thing." I could be way off.
Still, a testament to the fact that art doesn't need to be visually appealing to mean something. I've got a few of those, too.