-#100THINGSILEARNT- Lesson 12: DIY Blow-pen Art :)

Why, hello there. Eapen here. Its been a while since I’ve written for the blog ( mostly cause I’m terribly lazy), but after a lot of motivation (nagging :P) from Vindhya, thought I’d post about the blow-paint art work I did awhile back using blowpens! :D

                                                

                                                                Blow pens be the shit :D

So, reasons to make this:

1) Very simple and easy to make this, even a seven year old can make this. (provided he can handle a blade :P)

2) Not very time consuming. Would take you about half an hour to make it (but then again, this depends on the kind of picture you’re trying to get)

3) Makes you seem very skilled and artistic, even if you can’t draw a straight line with a ruler.

4) Most importantly, you can use it to impress chicks cause its handmade and cheesy :p

Things you need to make this happen:

1) picture

2) blade

3) blow pens (obviously)

4) frame (to make it seem fancy and classy :p )

So here’s what you need to do :

Step 1 :-  Converting image to black and white

                If you already have a black and white image, then this step is useless for you and you can ignore it. If you don’t have a black and white picture, you can convert a normal picture into black and white by doing the following:

·         Copy-paste said picture in word

·         Right click the image

·         Click the option, ‘format image’

·         Format the image with the given options to get a black and white image.

The resulting image should look like this:

Step 2:- Making a stencil

                So this is probably the most tedious and time consuming part of this entire project. You need to get the stencil right, to get a good end product.

To make the stencil, take the blade and cut out the black parts of the picture. The remaining bits form your stencil.

This step ends up looking something like this:

Step 3:- The art work

                This part just requires a lot of blowing (stop with the dirty thoughts! :P).  Hold the blow pen above the stencil and blow as hard as you can ( I’m not making this sound dirty on purpose! Promise :P). Make sure the stencil is in position and does not move around to get a good picture.

This step looks like this:

You can use different colors together to make it seem more colourful. You can also frame it and add a cheesy quote to make it seem more meaningful and beautiful and whatnot :)

Hope you enjoyed this little DIY project and I promise to write more often :)

Buh bye, for now

Eapen Ittiyera