Share your artwork!!

[JV]

i like it deja! the red looks good w/ the black and white (bluish kinda??), coming from someone w/ no artistic abilities at all.

 

[Salviasca]

Hi

I am making Mandalas on the Computer and want to share some hope i get the right way to do it.

Open for comments.

 

[Busty St Clare]

I don't use that many colours, but it pays better than grafitti......

Before:

After:

 

[justsomeguy]

why does he still have crap on his canines / inscisors? (spelling..)

 

[MynameisnotDeja]

i like it deja! the red looks good w/ the black and white (bluish kinda??), coming from someone w/ no artistic abilities at all.

for you.

Salviasca, those are absolutely breathtaking! How, if you don't mind me asking, did you make them? What program is that in? I especially like the last one. So much light. :D

 

[Busty St Clare]

why does he still have crap on his canines / inscisors? (spelling..)

blood... photo was taken 2 minutes after I clean the margins of cement.

 

[justsomeguy]

oh i see. well, i don't think its fine art lol

 

[Busty St Clare]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder..... and I believe he got laid that night

 

[justsomeguy]

wait did you put his caps on or just photograph them?

 

[coelophysis]

you should check out http://threadless.com

people submit t-shirt templates and every week one is chosen to be printed and distributed. i think you make around $2000 or so if your design is chosen + extra

I'm glad you see my stuff as shirt worthy I'm checking the site out now, it seems interesting, I suppose there is nothing to lose. When I win I'll give you your cut for showing me to the website.

MynameisnotDeja - Thank you


Here's one I JUST did, all in one sitting. Went to Atlantic City, dropped some cid, gambled for 20 minutes, wandered around the casino aimlessly for an hour staring at the rugs, went out to the boardwalk and beach area, smoked a joint, went back to my hotel room and then this happened -

 

[Busty St Clare]

wait did you put his caps on or just photograph them?

I didn't take the photos....


Coelo, you should seriously submit those to Threadless. I've got several T's from their site and I would definitely buy one with your designs.... they also sell prints of some of the designs as well.

 

[n3ophy7e]

WOOOOWWWWWW!!!!

I did a similar thing on microdots a few years ago, but nowhere near as good as that. I used glitter pens teehee

 

[AmorRoark]

Yeah I definitely would not consider dentistry an art. I equally hate when doctors refer to the surgical bed as a canvas or whatever.

 

[Busty St Clare]

Being American you are obviously happy with lego brick smiles spat out of a factory ala Extreme make over. From experience these people generally want to scream at the world that "I have spent money on my teeth".

After 10 years I look at the second photo and see the suttle translucency of the incisal edges that cannot be achieved with plastic or even porcelain fused to metal. I also appreciate how the different layers of porcelain react under natural and artificial light. They are still not 100% natural I believe, but being the best means you are never happy. It is a little white for mind... but the client wanted this.

Not an art? I spent 6 months planning and sculpting the bone and gum (with a laser) and trialing the shape and bite in plastic before I was happy to proceed with the glass work. It was my design that my lab then followed. My best work are on 20 something women who's friends have no idea that their teeth are fake. Even to this day though I can still pick a cosmetic smile from 20ft (even from the world leaders)..... only God himself it seems has mastered enamel.

I could've done it in less than a month but I knew that the condyles were going to remodel after such a radical rebuild and the profile of his smile would be too unpredictable.

But you can stick to your pens and brushes, .......at least you can hang that on a wall.

 

[alasdairm]

Nothing special

we'll agree to disagree...



alasdair

 

[pennywise]

Being American you are obviously happy with lego brick smiles spat out of a factory ala Extreme make over. From experience these people generally want to scream at the world that "I have spent money on my teeth".

After 10 years I look at the second photo and see the suttle translucency of the incisal edges that cannot be achieved with plastic or even porcelain fused to metal. I also appreciate how the different layers of porcelain react under natural and artificial light. They are still not 100% natural I believe, but being the best means you are never happy. It is a little white for mind... but the client wanted this.

Not an art? I spent 6 months planning and sculpting the bone and gum (with a laser) and trialing the shape and bite in plastic before I was happy to proceed with the glass work. It was my design that my lab then followed. My best work are on 20 something women who's friends have no idea that their teeth are fake. Even to this day though I can still pick a cosmetic smile from 20ft (even from the world leaders)..... only God himself it seems has mastered enamel.

I could've done it in less than a month but I knew that the condyles were going to remodel after such a radical rebuild and the profile of his smile would be too unpredictable.

But you can stick to your pens and brushes, .......at least you can hang that on a wall.

I appreciate your point of view. While generally my own definition of art is rather broad, I think that one of the important ingredients necessary to anything with the title of "art" is that creativity and self expression are integral elements. Perhaps the process you are describing may be better expressed as a craft or a skill? For instance, welding and and machining precise parts are both things that have some aspects of art, and definitely require great skill and experience that we can all respect, but ultimately are not creative in a clearly identifiable way. I think that creating dental moldings or whatever these are probably falls into the same category...something like "skilled craft" or similar. It might have many of the same aspects of art, but ultimately diverges from art in that the aim is not to create an aesthetic effect purely for it's own sake and artistic impression, but to replicate as closely as possible a standard which has a different purpose and intent than one that is purely artistic.

 

[Busty St Clare]

Interesting, are you saying for it to be art it must be disposable? Serve no purpose?

Is a furniture designer not an artist because he could just a simply whack three legs onto a round base and just make a practical stool? Instead he creates a designer chair that would not look out of place in an art museum.

Are architects not artists? They could simply replicate boxes and fill them with people.

Is a hairdresser an artist? Not if he uses a bowl I guess :D
But what if he dyes the hair several colours?

Is a toilet seat in a modern art gallery considered art?

I believe art is a feeling not a catagory.

Not one of my cases are the same. They do not follow predetermined cut out pattern, each one must be designed from scratch and between 6-10 shades used in each tooth.

Don't get me wrong... there is nothing artistic about screwing a broken jaw back together but I carry a portfolio of my work, every bit as beautiful and creative as a photographers.

*sobs into unappreciated girly soft hands*

 

[jam uh weezy]

eh, the colors are off on the picture...

Say it fast.




soul scientist, amazing stuff, lets see more?

 

[KiwiQflyer]

Soo...crafting is still an artform. So here you go.

What happens when you leave tofu in the fridge for too long?? It goes BAAAD!!

He's a block of expired tofu. Even though I'm a vegan, I'm not the biggest fan of tofu, so this is basically what I see everytime I look at it anyway.

He's made of felt, handstitched, filled with poly-fil, and I hand stitched that devious facial expression as well.

 

[pennywise]

Interesting, are you saying for it to be art it must be disposable? Serve no purpose?

No, I never said that. If it is entirely functional, however, with no appreciable element of pure artistic value, then I don't believe it can be considered art.

Architecture for instance, is indeed functional. However, one of the traditional ground rules is, "form follows function," which indicates that form still has it's place.

Do any of your dental pieces have any feature that is included solely for it's artistic merit, or even primarily for it's artistic merit? I'm not trying to belittle your skill or craftsmanship, but ultimately your goal isn't any pure standard of artistic expression, but rather to see how closely you can replicate something that is found naturally. As such, there is no creative impulse in such work, which is, in my estimation, the central element of anything "artistic".