Painting with Wine: a Tipsy Art Style

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruits such as grapes. The color of wine varies, from pale yellow through rich red to a dark, plum brown. This range of color and wine's liquid nature means that the drink can be used as an ink.

The Techniques of Painting with Wine
Wine paintings are created in a similar manner to ink or watercolor paintings. The wine "paint" can be watered down for a lighter color, or layered, to create a darker shade. Wine art is painted on porous paper, which has often been soaked and pressed onto a board before painting, to make the paper more absorbent. Watercolor effects tools such as rubber paint and salt can also be used in wine painting.

Above: This wine painting depicts a semi-nude woman pouring wine over her shoulder into a glass. The artist has used several watercolor techniques to create the wine painting such as staining the page with a light wash of wine before painting the subject.

Above: Using wine from the same bottle gives wine painting an even tone. The result in this realistic painting of a castle is that the painting appears to be an old photograph that has faded, leaving only the red ink behind.

Above: The wild essence of this painting is perfect for wine art, depicting both the intoxicating nature of wine and the artist's freedom of expression.

Wine Paintings as Decor

Wine paintings have a place with any wine loving art enthusiast, and make apt decor for bars and pubs. Paintings that use wine as an ink or paint should be sprayed with a sealant and displayed behind glass in a dry frame. Often, wine artists will include the vintage and wine maker's name in the name of the painting, making wine paintings a great promotional tool for wine farms and alcohol distributors.

Above: The artist has used a few well placed brush strokes to create depth in this wine painting. The lighter areas have been painted with watered down wine, and the darker areas use undiluted wine that is layered for deep shadows.

Above: This cartoon character was created with pencil and wine. Like both watercolor and ink, wine can be a very expressive and attractive medium.

Above: The artist has layered brush strokes of wine to create shadows. Other areas of the painting have been outlined in pencil to give the impression of buildings.

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Glass Sculpture Gives a Clear View on Design

Glass sculptures are also known as studio glass. These are items that have been made from glass with a purely decorative purpose in mind. This versatile art style allows glass workers to create a world of shiny, transparent art works.

Making Glass Art Sculptures
Most people are familiar with the method of glass blowing, in which a lump of glass is heated and then hollowed as air is blown into the glass. This creates a bulb or tube, depending on how the glass blower treats the glass. Other ways to create glass art include stained glass, lampworking, coldworking, beadmaking, casting and fusing.

Above: This glass art sculpture has been created through the process of glass blowing. The delicate design is accentuated with patterns that have been worked into the glass.

Above: This glass ball has swirls of colored glass bulbs trapped inside it.

Above: These glass flowers are fun decorations for kids' rooms or a lively restaurant.

Above: An abstract art glass sculpture

Glass Sculptures as Interior Decor

Glass sculptures come in a variety of sizes, from small paperweights to large, rambling sculptures. In the home or office, glass sculptures can be displayed on a shelf or side table as an aesthetic talking piece. Many glass artists will create a sculpture according to the customer's needs in terms of size, shape and color, which means that glass art can be custom made to a person's desires.

Above: An abstract art glass sculpture depicting a squid-like creature.

Above: Using different colors of glass, this artist has created an explosion of color.

Above: This design boasts an alienish essence, as the shape, color and pattern make the art work appear to be an alien seed pod or egg sac.

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Artistic Recycling: Amazing Furniture Made From Old Bicycles

Stylish and unique furniture made from bicycle wheel rims, handle bars, and frames.

Where do bicycles go when they die? Andy Gregg transforms these unwanted vehicles into contemporary furniture. Using the stainless steel and aluminum frames, wheel rims and handlebars from old bikes, Gregg creates chairs, tables and barstools.

Above: This lounge chair is created from old bike parts, using inner tubes to create springy upholstery.

Gregg has been creating recycled bicycle furniture since 1990, refining his designs and adding more pieces to his inventory. Each piece has a slick, clean look; a positive image that one would not expect from old bike parts.
His creations also include recycled items from other locomotives. Windows from trains and cars become glass table tops and seat belt webbing is used for upholstery.

Above: Windows from old automobiles are transformed into glass table tops for coffee tables and bar tables.

Many of these designs can weather a life outdoors as practical and attractive garden furniture. Certainly a topic for conversation, the furniture offers both aesthetic value and functionality.

Above: The Loveseat design offers a stylish and comfortable chair for two people.

Gregg offers custom-made options, so a buyer may choose the type and color of upholstery; material variations include rubber inner tubes, leather, clear or colored acrylic, cork and vinyl. Customizable furniture allows the buyer to choose the material of the armrests and the color of the seating. Recycling takes many forms and exciting artworks made from old, unwanted items is becoming more popular. Andy Gregg’s designs are certainly a unique and functional use of old bicycles.
Located in Marquette, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Superior, Bike Furniture Design Headquarters continues to create new and interesting recycled furniture. For more info and designs, visit Bike Furniture Design.


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3-D Graffiti Sculptures Hit the Streets

Graffiti has moved into a new dimension with these stunning 3D graffiti sculptures.

Graffiti, a popular urban art form, has taken on a new style in the shape of 3-Dimensional designs. Many of these pieces have been conceptualized with 3D polygonal modeling programs; a relatively new artistic resource. The pieces stand apart from traditional graffiti styles, yet incorporate many aesthetic traits of classic graffiti pieces such as the use of perspective and color.

Peeta Sculptural Graffiti

These stunning artworks by the artist Peeta are made from a variety of materials. Some are made from polyurethane and then spray-painted. Other materials that the artist uses include cardboard, wood, fabrics, graphite and cellulose actetate.

Above: “Poly” – 2005 by Peeta. Even in the 2-dimensional medium of photography, this graffiti art work has a distinct 3-D effect. This is created by the presence of highlights and shadows in the sculpture.

Above: Untitled – 2008 by Peeta. Some pieces use cardboard as the basic structure for the design, with high quality fabrics stitched over the framework.

Above: “S” – 2003 by Peeta. This piece was created using hand-made cellulose acetate which lends the sculpture a slick, shiny feel.

Above: “Rock” – 2005 by Peeta

Traditional graffiti artists often gambled with unlikely and unusual perspectives. These pieces are based on the visual depth created by graffiti artists, bringing the perspective of classic graffiti art to life in beautiful twisting sculptures. Check out Peeta’s site

German Artist DAIM 3-D Graffiti

DAIM, a German artist, dabbles in many forms of art, but has received global recognition for his 3-Dimensional graffiti art style. Using a well-known graffiti look, DAIM takes his art one step further, pushing a traditionally 2-Dimensional art form into the third dimension. This artist has been producing graffiti works since 1989, expressing his graffiti talents in many mediums, including etching, spray-painting and 3D sculptural graffiti. His urban artworks appear in built-up areas across Germany and in art galleries. Visit DAIM Gallery for more info on DAIM.

Truthtag 3D Cubist Graffiti

Using colored Polystyrene blocks, this artist creates 3-Dimensional artworks that are inspired by the cubist movement. Standing in stark contrast to the building, these pieces create an attractive and colorful diversion from the dull brickwork of modern architecture. Visit Truthtag’s website

Delta Sculptural Graffiti

Considered one of the pioneers of the European graffiti art movement, Delta creates complex 3D graffiti pieces that hang suspended above the viewer by wires, or fit snugly against a wall. See more of Delta’s work here

3D Graffiti as a New Artistic Style

Art based on the classic graffiti style is growing in popularity and graffiti style innovations are appearing with more regularity. As pioneers for a new dimension of graffiti, these artists are often commissioned to create 3D sculptural pieces for business and shop owners. Graffiti needn’t be an illegal art form anymore, and it is refreshing to see these talented artists making money from their work.


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Recycled Kitchen Utensils become Art

Sayaka Kajita Gans is a Japanese artist who recycles discarded kitchen utensils, toys and metal items by transforming them into emotive sculptures.

Sayaka Kajita Gans, Recycling Artist

Gans says that her work process reminds her of growing up in several different countries. Moving from one home to another throughout her childhood gave Gans a sense of disconnectedness, which is conveyed through her art. Each item that Gans chooses to use in her artworks are carefully selected, and must meet the requirement of being previously owned, used and discarded. Gans gives these pieces a new life by combining them to create an animal form that seems almost alive.

Above: Convergence II

Gans uses flowing lines to create a sense of life and movement in her sculptures. Each creature seems to be frozen in time, like a single frame out of an animation. Each part of the animal is made up of a series of curves and arcs that further add to the sense of movement that the sculpture conveys. Art made with reclaimed objects is gaining popularity around the world, but it is a rarity to see such skill applied to recycled art.

Above: Fogo

When sketching, an artist will often create motion lines behind the subject to convey speed and movement. Gans has incorporated this technique into her sculptures, as seen above in the sculpture of a running cheetah, Fogo. These motion lines add to the sensation of movement in Gans’s work.

Above: Emergence

In Emergence, Gans has created two horses that appear to be emerging from a wall. The incompleteness of the horse’s bodies portray Gans’s sense of disconnectedness. It creates a transitory feeling of life existing only in a moment, fading into the past within seconds, never to be reclaimed. In converse, it can also form the idea that life emerges from the past, yet is always tied to its beginnings.
 In Emergence, one can easily see the shapes of some of the found objects that Gans has used. The ears on the black horse are spades, and the ears on the white horse are large spoons.

Above: Plunge

 

This piece uses several individual sculptures to create the finished product, Plunge. The penguins depicted appear to be plunging into water, even though they are hung in air. The piece gives the viewer the fun sensation that they are standing beneath the surface of the water watching the penguins dive. Gans has given the impression of water movement behind the penguins by twisting wire into swirls. 

Below are more examples of Gans’s sculptures. You can visit her website at SayakaGans.com

Above: Wayne

Above: Deep Sea

Above: Jaws

Above: Walker

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