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Kaizen
10-10-2007, 11:28 PM
Oh yeah i'm pretty good at art (big suprise!)

so hey kids, you want to know a totally idiotic and difficult way to make FINE ART?

If you can get your hands on some thick aluminum metal plates you're half way there. THEN all you gotta go is painstakingly SCRATCH a negative image into the metal - like a caveman making an image on a cave wall or something.

There's also some part about soaking it in acid, but god dammit i can't remember much about that step but but was a huge pain in the ass.

Then wipe it down with ink, wipe the excess off with acetone and the scratched in grooves will hold the rest.
THEN run it through a press. You can only get a few prints out of each run and then you gotta re-ink it.

You do get a unique look to it and every printing run comes out differently because you cant totally control the ink.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8008/lincoln3oc6.jpg

Yeah I know Lincoln got shot in the back of the head but I just did that so you could see it...

I'll probaly put more art on..So yeah,

the end

igotangstinmypants
10-11-2007, 01:13 AM
WOAH!! THAT'S AWESOME!!
Didn't understand a word of what you said about the acid and the scratching though (x__x). Still, that looks freaking cool! I think I did a bootleg version of that with foam and scissors two years ago. xD Turned out badly.

Cr4zy
10-11-2007, 03:48 AM
And you wanted me to make a sig for you....

Kaizen
10-11-2007, 12:26 PM
Yeah I do! Please? Will you? I mean I asked for it..In a request thread. Well,thanks for the comments!

Cr4zy
10-12-2007, 04:10 AM
Sorry, I won't get it available for awhile. Junior IS the hardest year and all...

Kaizen
10-12-2007, 10:32 PM
Does anybody dare to try? :smokin:

B-One
10-20-2007, 12:30 AM
no, not at all...I'll keep lurking around here^^.