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Charlie Kratzer had basement that he wanted to make special. He did just that with $10 in Sharpie markers, a steady hand and lots of spare time.

When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and drawn all over.

One of these days I’ll have a house with a basement. Hopefully it will be as unique as this one. I’d love to see a before and after photos of the work though. In the full news story you can get a full 360-degree tour of the basement and enjoy everything about it.

If you really like Sharpie art you can also go uncover more from Justine Ashbee, her work is amazing as well. Exactly the kind of contemporary art that I love.

Uncovered by Dave Morse on Facebook. Thanks Dave!

Image: Snagit screen capture from video tour of basement

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I’m not sure where I first came across or heard about the art of Jen Stark, but I was surprised when I did a quick search on this blog and that I hadn’t showcased it before now.

Jen Stark’s work in paper sculpture is amazing to me. This is the kind of things I had envisioned in my head as a child but could never figure out or understand how to interpret it into the physical world through art.

Stark has taken these visions and made them realities through some amazing work in the cutting and sculpting of paper.

That’s not all she can do though, her talents with colored pens on paper is almost as equally intriguing. What appears to start as mere doodles on the page continue to build, develop and evolve into a variety of complex works with wonderful splashes of patterns and colors that evoke a flow of emotions as I look at the pieces.

You can also stay in touch with press coverage and more news of Jen Stark and her work at her blog, including some great new animations that she’s showcasing through YouTube as well.

Uncover a new view on art through the eyes of Jen Stark.

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Everyone is probably familiar with word clouds or tag clouds, but Wordle puts that idea to use and makes it art.

Just paste some text into the input box, type in a website with an RSS feed, or submit a del.icio.us username and you’ve immediately got an artistic interpretation of the words presented on the sources with variations in font size and color dependent on their usage and popularity in the document.

You can modify the fonts and colors to get the fine-tuned look you’re after, but sometimes just letting Wordle do it’s magic is where all the fun comes from.

Here’s one I did from my own personal blog RSS feed.

Uncover some word art for yourself at

www.wordle.net

Uncovered by Dustin Stamper

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First there was the Falling Sand Game, now you’ve got falling sand art with the ThisIsSand.com website.

Just visit the site, click your mouse and start sprinkling sand across the page. As you can see from my quick image above, you can create various piles and even change the color of your sand to create some pretty cool effects.

My kids love this kind of stuff and it’s also the type of thing that could end up sucking away far too much of the work day if you’re not careful.

Let’s see what you can create!

Uncovered by kmakice and weirdo513

www.thisissand.com

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Richard Sweeney has taken the task of folding, cutting and creasing paper to an absolute high-art form.

The transformation of flat sheet material into three dimensional forms is my central motivation, and working with paper and synthetic sheet materials I take a hands-on approach. Using this process I can gain a better insight into the unique properties of a material, and utilise this knowledge to develop form-making techniques for hand crafted and CNC manufactured objects.

I’m highly influenced by natural form; structures in nature are very efficient, the maximum is achieved using the least material and energy possible. Growth patterns produce forms that appear very complex, yet have a basic underlying principle.

I often take an experimental approach to projects, whereby objects are created through the exploration of a particular process rather than specifying a predetermined outcome.

You can see more of his works on his flickr gallery.

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The most frustrating toy for me was the Etch-a-Sketch. I loved drawing with this thing! I was really good at drawing…boxes!

George Vlosich III has overcome those boundaries of perpendicular lines and transitioned into full artistic expressionism with this childhood toy.

Yep, that image there was created on an Etch-a-Sketch. Just two little white knobs, a little patience, and NO SHAKING!

Visit his website at www.gvetchedintime.com to see all of his works. Many of which are sports figures. He can also produce custom works if you’re interested.

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