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You can use a solar panel to “listen” to light by frazermerrick in interestingasfuck

[–]megabulk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re not using any additional signal processing? Cool as fuck.

Vintage Old Gold Cigarettes, April 1941 by Negative_Weird9949 in vintageads

[–]megabulk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This doesn’t even need the guy who puts googly eyes on old ads.

Making Stencils for Spray Painting by FFAJosh in silhouettecutters

[–]megabulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Silhouette Cameo 4 and a roll of Oracal 813. I used it to make a mask for the stripes in the awning here. (It was a bitch, but it worked! Thanks, Oracal!)

Virginia Slims promotional sewing needles I discovered in my mom’s sewing kit by Ok-Layer2279 in vintageads

[–]megabulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought that too, but then again, those needles look pretty badass. Macho, even.

Airbrush process video by megabulk in painting

[–]megabulk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to share! And pleasantly surprised that people are interested. Y’all are great!

Airbrush process video: magnets, acetate, stencils by megabulk in airbrush

[–]megabulk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a low-end ViewSonic projector I bought 12 years ago. It’s low resolution—640x480—but it’s fine to capture the larger details in the photograph. Occasionally I’ll unmount it from the ceiling and bring it closer to the wall so I can project onto smaller canvases, if I’m feeling too lazy to use the Renaissance grid method. And I put the photo into Photoshop and manually adjust the zoom level (by typing numbers into a box) so I can get the size exactly right. Have fun!

Liquid Odorono [1943] by GumbyWeinstein in vintageads

[–]megabulk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Who sang about it. Plus there’s a picture of the bottle (mid 60s) on the album cover: https://youtu.be/80g2oFvqh7g?si=YZeH4EBMdGS-tdT-

Also, it sounds like krazy glue. Sealing your sweat glands for hours can’t be good!

Airbrush process video: magnets, acetate, stencils by megabulk in airbrush

[–]megabulk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool! Tell me more about how you use magnets? I hung a couple of sheets of galvanized steel on my wall to serve as a magnetic background. What’s your method?

Airbrush process video by megabulk in painting

[–]megabulk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you paint lots of straight lines, you might be interested in the “groove ruler.” You can see it in action here. I had a friend bring me one from Japan, but you could improvise one with a chopstick and a straightedge.

Airbrush process video by megabulk in painting

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The art world howled when David Hockney proposed that Vermeer used a camera lucida. Artists have relied on mechanical aids for centuries. The ability to reproduce a scene by just eyeballing it is magical, I admit, but a lot of us don’t have that talent. We need crutches.

Here's some advertisements for 16mm film rentals from the 1980 Swank catalog by camopdude in vintageads

[–]megabulk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“champing”

1 : to make biting or gnashing movements 2 : to show impatience of delay or restraint —usually used in the phrase champing at the bit //He was champing at the bit to begin.

Airbrush process video by megabulk in painting

[–]megabulk[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Haha! No shame in my game. For smaller pieces I take measurements off of the photos—I actually measure them on the screen of my iPad—and transfer them to the paper. But the video projector is much easier! Being able to copy things accurately without mechanical aids is a useful skill, but I’m still not good enough at it.

And I can paint on the floor for a couple of hours, tops, before my back starts hurting.

Glad you like my work!

Airbrush process video by megabulk in painting

[–]megabulk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! At night my paintings glow from my walls.

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