Paul Overton posted this nice tutorial on how to make papercut portraits on his blog, DudeCraft. The best thing about this paper cutting technique can be applied to many medias and derived, like stencilling a T-Shirt.

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This is my first Instructable, and my entry for the Instructables pocket-sized contest. It’s a Pocket-Sized Watercolor Box in an Altoids tin. I’ve seen people make similar ones and I’ve decided to make my own, using what I had: Fimo clay.

For once, instead of just linking to an Instructable, I wrote one. About time!

Please vote for me!

Altoids Tin Pocket-Sized Watercolor Box [link]

«So I’ve been doing a lot of story boarding recently and in an effort to sharpen up my drawing skills I’ve switched from using a pencil to a pen. The only problem has been it’s much harder to do even fills with a pen than a pencil, so I needed a fat marker, too. But I hate carrying around more junk than I need, and most of the art markers out there have two or more points (prismacolor, tria, copic) but none of them have a point fine enough to do real line work. What’s an art director to do? Hack a tria of course…»

Extra Fine Dual Point Tria Art Marker [link]

Egg tempera is a painting technique that’s been around for hundreds of years. Today, we mainly know two types of painting: acrylic and oil paintings. Acrylic paint is water-based. Oil paint is, well, oil based (hence the long drying time – oil takes more time to evaporate than water). Egg tempera is, like acrylic paint, water based, but the medium isn’t a synthetic chemical: it’s egg yolk! Egg yolk is actually an excellent medium for preserving pigment, and it dries clear (completely clear after a few weeks).

Egg tempera produces high quality results, as you can see with the portrait shown above. Durable too: that painting dates back to the XIVth century!

Egg Tempera Painting [link] [another link]