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The Art Alchemist's Guild
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I had a "primitive art is better" phase back when I had art classes. I liked to make art with as few refined materials as possible. My favorite project was calligraphy on stone (whitewashed slate) using crushed berries for ink and cut leaves as nibs. It was neither long lasting nor particularly precise but it certainly was satisfying.
I can appreciate the vibe of old tempera with fugutive pigments, even if it's accidental and technically not what the artists were going for. I try to balance it out with newschool methods of preserving anything I think is good.
And that sounds awesome, do you have any pictures?
Nahhh this was probably 20 years ago. Im a stuffy old machinist now after welding for 15 years. Not much room for art these days.
Sorry to hear that. Welding is pretty intriguing to me.
Welding is an art unto itself. I specialized in TIG welding, which is the real pretty rainbow looking kind if you get it right. Sadly, nobody is going to appreciate a mint weld down inside the intercooler on an apache helicopter, or inside some satellite that'll be floating around this rock god knows how long, or a pretty little braze holding together a shattered bearing housing on a generator in a hydroelectric dam.
But I know they're there, and that comes with its own satisfaction.
Just dropping space cred like it's nothing.
That's amazing, thanks for sharing.