Steampunk News

The Artificers Club | July 28, 2011

Steampunk Airship sculpture in Dreadnought design made of papier mache, re-purposed card stock, corrugated cardboard, foam, plastic, wood and metal pieces.

Steampunk Airship "Diabolus"

The Diabolus

This steampunk zeppelin “flew high” at the World Steam Expo in Dearborn, Michigan, USA this past May, 2011. The airship measures approximately 1.6m stem to stern, about 45cm wide and about 65cm tall. It is made entirely of re-purposed/recycled materials and was a big hit at the Expo!

Artist: Stephan J. Smith – Artsmith Craftworks – http://www.artsmithcraftworks.com

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The Artificers Club | March 1, 2011

Recycled materials, acrylic and modeling. Average height of 9 inches.

Those assemblages are composed of recuperated items and diverted from their primary function to create disparate creatures.

Art, recycling and vintage passion are combined. Piece by piece, the character is defined, a personality emerges randomly with the work evolution, brings a breath of life to the composition and carries us into a particular visual universe with steampunk and junk art influences.

www.facebook.com/StephanieVandalArt

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The Artificers Club | February 11, 2011

When you can combine the best of all worlds, why wouldn’t you? This piece is one that I finished last week that incorporates several of my interests/passions.

First, I love the entire Steampunk genre and I tried to give this video chair a bit of a steam look without overdoing it. The brown covering has a leather or suede look (even though it’s paper) and the gears just complete the feel.

Second, I’ve always wanted to design and build a video chair that was not only cool looking, but was good for your back. Many of you know that while I’ve been an artist my whole life, I’m also a Doctor of Chiropractic, so making a chair that was ergonomic was a pleasure and even a duty.

Lastly…near and dear to my heart is the fact that the entire piece is constructed of recycled/upcycled/repurposed materials. The shape and structure of the chair is made of cut out and laminated corrugated cardboard, which is cross-supported with six thick-walled cardboard mailing tubes that I’d been saving. All glued together, this piece is very strong and pretty light weight! I then used newspaper papier mache to cover the laminated corrugated, then went over that with a mache of torn brown scrap craft paper. The tubes are covered with old paper company swatchbook samples in red and there’s a small, flat chunk of cement in the seat for weight balance, (I poured this as a mosaic stepping stone base, but never used it). The padding on the chair is factory scrap foam punch-outs in a cylindrical shape that I cut in half lengthwise and covered in scrap drapery fabric. The bottom edges are covered with scrap, rubbery foam to make the chair non-skid and to protect it.

The chair is very comfortable, supports your neck and low back properly and rocks a bit. GREAT for watching movies!

Artist: Stephan J. Smith – Artsmith Craftworks, Swartz Creek, Michigan, USA – www.ArtSmithCraftWorks.com

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The Artificers Club | February 4, 2011

Below is an airship I created for a Steampunk themed new bookstore called Off The Beaten Path in Farmington, Michigan, USA. I was commissioned to do the piece by a friend of mine who is an interior designer. Creating a look of viability and yet Victorian aged splendor was both a pleasure and a challenge, but lots of fun too!

This ship employs my favorite medium, which is paper…particularly mache, and also uses many other recycled/repurposed materials, including plastic pieces, metal, corrugated cardboard, copper wire, etc. I love steampunk, but I have an even deeper need to use materials that would otherwise be trash. I guess in this case, it’s using old materials to create older artwork!

I have several other airships in various stages of production at this point, each a little (or a lot) different than the others, but all will be exciting to see and I promise to post them here as well as on my own blog (below).

Sailing the Aether!

Full steam ahead!

Artist: Stephan J. Smith – Artsmith Craftworks – www.ArtSmithCraftWorks.com

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The Artificers Club | January 27, 2011

My most recent Mort Couture creation with Steampunk as inspiration for the styling and theme of the photos from the shoot.  The outfit consists of a brown ruched dress with gold glitter,  cherry leatherette bolero with tubes and piping attached. Net bow with feather detail and brass button. A brooch made of clock parts, cameo and other clockwork artifacts.

Artist: Layla Gordon -Mort Couture – http://www.facebook.com/mortcouture, Photos by Dark Romantics -  http://www.facebook.com/darkromantics

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The Artificers Club | January 5, 2011

I’m afraid that due to numerous problems with moderating this blog I have been forced to take the sad step of moving to a different provider.

On the plus side, the new and vastly improved Artificers’ Club blog is now online at http://sydeiancreations.com/TAC/

We are now accepting new artists, with a much faster turnaround time for approvals!

Come and visit us for a brave new world of intriguing inventions and courageous contraptions!

http://sydeiancreations.com/TAC/

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The Artificers Club | January 5, 2011

Made several years ago I rarely remember to tel anyone about this fun little device.

A working mobile candlestick telephone. The cameo doubling as a send receive button that allows voice dialling.

Artist: James Richardson-Brown – Sydeian Creations – http://www.sydeiancreations.com

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The Artificers Club | January 5, 2011

Good day and howdy. My name is Miss Dorothy Winterman (if you please) and I am the proprietess of a haberdashery called: HATTITUDE- by Dorothy Winterman Designs.  We offer the finest in custom embellished  hats and glasses/goggles for those of the Punk (Steam, Cyber, Diesel) and Neo-Victorian persuasions. Our hats are as unique as you are.  No hats  EVER look the same so you’ll never be embarrassed by having the same exact hat as anyone else attending the same soiree.  We have three (3) sizes of women’s hats: the small hat, the mini hat and the itsy bitsy hat (which can be attached to a ponytail holder as an adorable everyday look sure to inspire awe and awwwww).  We also feature chapeaus por le homme and embellished glasses you will not find anywhere else.  Indeed, we will embellish YOUR hat if you’d like- just ship it to us and you’ll receive an amazing work of art back, minus the shipping costs – of course.  Most non-Steampunked/unembellished Victorian hats will cost you $30 to $70 on selling sites (no really go look- I’ll wait here).  Our CUSTOM embellished hats are between $15 and $65 each- a bargain for wearable art that will last you years into the anachronistic future/past.  We’d love to hear from you, questions, comments, requests or just to drop in for a spot of tea and a fresh-baked scone.  Thank you for looking and may the force of Steam be with thee!

Are you feeling lucky today?

Artist: Dorothy Winterman – Dorothy Winterman Designs - http://www.etsy.com/shop/alimah1223

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The Artificers Club | December 30, 2010

Hello all. This is “OTTO”. It’s is one of my latest designs. Since I create illuminated objects, I’m always at the mercy of the store-bought incandescent bulbs that are commercially available. It’s never easy to work a standard bulb into a design especially since the bulbs are so dull and recognizable. I try to locate the most unusual bulbs and they’re getting more difficult to find. To address this, I have begun modding the bulbs themselves. Here I cut away the round, glass envelopes on the CFL bulbs. These bulbs have unusually small spirals and I found them to be very attractive. I also added brass coverings on the bases and industrial porcelain sockets. Thank you for looking.

Artist: Art Donovan – http://www.donovandesign.blogspot.com

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The Artificers Club | December 30, 2010

I thought I’d brave the choppy waters and start us off by posting the first creation to the club.

“The Tezlar Device – Created for the performance based sideshow act, the Electric sisters, the device allows high voltage currents to be passed through both sisters in a ‘shocking’ dual electrocution.”

The device was created for a photo shoot featuring Scott Chalmers (photographer) http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottchalmers, Azadeh Brown (Model) http://www.modelmayhem.com/571454 and Layla Gordon (model) http://www.facebook.com/LaylaGordon

Artisit: James Richardson-Brown – http://www.sydeiancreations.com

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The Artificers Club | October 27, 2010

My latest work in brass mesh, solid brass and mahogany. Of course it has light bulbs, but something a little bit different. The light bulbs themselves are modded. Low wattage plus a dimmer switch ensure that they will last quite a while. This piece is a combination of about three different designs.

The “weather” part is actually a stretch ( if you will forgive me).
It consists of three gauges: time, temperature and humidity on the base portion.
Actually, other than simply looking out the window for one’s self, it’s really the only weather information you actually need:) A few more picture here.

31″ tall. Dated Oct, 2010.

Regards to all at the A.C. !

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The Artificers Club | October 4, 2010

Hey everyone,
I thought I’d share some of my latest paintings. They’re a mix of Visionary Steampunk, which I like to call “Dreampunk”. Hope you like it. Always love to hear your feedback. Thanks
-Michael Pukac
michaelpukac@gmail.com

For more info & upcoming shows, check out http://www.michaelpukac.com

& here’s a little bit about me:
Michael Pukac (Poo-khash) is a Long Beach, California based artist originally from Alabama. Well known in the Los Angeles art scene for his live painting performances, his studio work basks in the land of unicorn powered zeplins, narwhal chases, underwater scuba adventures, dj’s spinning on hot air balloon rides, and seahorse turntables. Close your eyes and swim into a steampunk Atlantis wonderland. Pukac creates playful paintings filled with romantic absurdities to complete epic anti-narratives that exist in the air or in the sea.

“Party Boat to Atlantis”

“Unicycle Contraption”

“Revenge of the Narwhal”

“2012″

“Incognita”

“Chasing the Narwhal”

http://www.michaelpukac.com

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