Architecture
January 20, 2018

Designers Use Aerial Scans to Turn Any Street in Chicago into Detailed 3D Models

A master of transforming architecture into sculpture, Microscape, is back with another highly detailed site model of a beloved American city. After the enormous success of their New York City scale model, they are back with another 1:5000 scale replica of Chicago. Microscape's 3D printed cities are fully customizable, coming in square sections that allow you to select the areas of the city you love the most or fit together several areas like pieces of a puzzle.

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Art History
January 18, 2018

How the Pioneers of Pointillism Continue to Influence Artists Today

Contemporary Pointillism Artists Miguel Endara One modern artist to adopt the Pointillism technique is Miguel Endara. His amazing photo-realistic piece titled Hero (2011) is made of of a staggering 3.2 million hand-drawn dots. The artist used just one pen—a Sakura Pigma Micron (nib size 005, 0.20 mm)—and took a full year to complete the piece. Endara reveals, “I logged in exactly 210 hours of just stippling.

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Art History
January 17, 2018

Everything You Need to Know About Hokusai, the Painter of ‘The Great Wave’

The Great Wave off Kanagawa The instantly recognizable 19th century masterpiece titled The Great Wave off Kanagawa gracefully captures the power of the ocean in hues of Prussian blue—a pigment that previously had only been used by the richest of artists due to its rarity. Also known as The Great Wave, the print is not purely Japanese in style.

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