Things change
When I first learned about 3D printing, I couldn’t wait to do it myself. I pre-ordered a printer from 3D Systems, which doesn’t even sell consumer 3D printers anymore, and waited 7 months to receive and use it. For...
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Enlarging 3D printing designs has challenges
When working with 3D prints almost 5 feet tall on my Cerberus 3D Gigante 3D printer there are plenty of potential pitfalls. You know that if you’ve been reading this blog for a while. One pitfall is similar to what happens...
Read MoreSo Much for Cookie Cutter Claims About Creating Art With 3D Printing – Take 2
One of the huge misconceptions about 3D printing is that it is so easy you can just push a button to make multiple copies of a design. (Let’s not even think about CREATING the design.) HAH! After detailing how I had to...
Read MoreFun With CAD
When I first started playing with 3D printing 10 years ago, I had a head start. That’s because I was already using CAD, or Computer Aided Design, to create my metal sculptures. CAD is one of the “dirty little...
Read MoreSwitching on the art lights
If you’re a longtime reader of this blog or even a longtime fan of my work, you may remember the lighted sculpture show “Illuminate” that was held 3 years ago. If you’re really lucky, you got to attend...
Read MoreSo much for cookie cutter claims about creating art
So much for the belief that sculptors will pump out thousands of the same piece creating soulless cookie-cutter multiples. Ironically, that charge was blown apart when my 46″ tall 3D-printed and hand-painted sculpture...
Read MoreFad or trend? 3D printing settles in
I’m old enough to remember a lot of fads, including hula hoops, Furbys, hoverboards and Tickle Me Elmo. 3D printing came on like a firestorm, too. Suddenly everyone wanted to create things from scratch using these amazing...
Read MoreThings Change Dept. – bigger, different, exciting
After using 3D printing for a decade, I’m embarking on a new initiative. And this is the first place I am talking about it publicly. At least this approach is new for me. Other artists have been using 3D printing to create...
Read MoreMaking walls three-dimensional
Fellow artist Daniel Prendergast threw down the gauntlet: how about using 3D printing to create three-dimensional wall art? I’d already made some metal sculptural wall artworks such as Bob, Labyrinth and Shade and Shadow,...
Read More3D printing goes outside to play
Finally, 3D printing can go outside to play. Of course, it’s been possible to 3D print outdoor sculpture for a while, but we’re talking high-end, hundreds of thousands of dollars possible. For mere mortals like me,...
Read MoreWhat Nobody Tells You About 3D Printing
When 3D printing first burst on the scene for “mere mortals” (non-geeks – and that’s said with plenty of respect), there was 1 big thing no one told people. The dirty little secret? You need a file to...
Read MoreTranslucent filaments offer possibilities when lighting sculpture
Adzuki (right) and its functional “cousin,” the side table Red Moon Slice, both created in 2016, were the first internally lit 3D-printed sculptures I created. I’ve lighted many of my translucent sculptures...
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