Faerie Bottle or Bud Vase
Description
You have the right the print this out for your own personal use as per the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license indicated below.
LICENSE ADDITIONS:
1. You may also rescale the item in any direction to fit your needs.
2. You may use photographs of your printed items in any way, including commercially. For example, if you are selling pretty roses and you want to display them in a bottle, this is permitted. For example, if you are advertising a 3d printer you have for sale, it is permitted to show a picture the bottle as an example print. As a courtesy, I ask that you provide a credit to me as the designer of the bottle if possible. However, credit is not a requirement that will be enforced.
Instructions
Also, to hand paint the item, I used sharpies of all things! You can layer sharpie colours and they will blend nicely with the scrubby/brushy techniques, as the solvent in the ink dissolves into the under layers of ink. I think I was told that the solvent in the ink is related to acetone, and that may be what enhances the glossiness of the print when painted with sharpies.
Oh, one more thing, which I have not yet tried. In another "thing" someone had mentioned that they use a polyurethane coating on the inside of vases to seal them and make them watertight. They suggested that the cavity be filled with polyurethan, then emptied, and left to continue to drain/dry upside down. I will let you know how this works out.
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I've been trying to articulate some sort of art in this medium and this blows me away. I have an idea that's kind of cartoony, and definitely still floating in the gray matter. Inspirational work, Whystler.
Really nice shape. I like the spirals, I think you should do a snail shell next :).
The supplied STL extends above the max height for my printer. I would like to scale it down to fit, but your license having the "no derivatives" stipulation bars me from doing that legally without permission. Is scaling for my use okay Whystler?
By the way, the next thing you should try is an Ocarina (that is what I thought it was before reading the title). ;)
It looks great.
Could you share a picture of the set-up you use to color the part?
Surely! Imagine my left hand holding the bottle firmly, and my right hand, carefully applying layers of colour :) Sorry, I hope you didn't think it was an automated process.
More info, if you're interested:
For this bottle I used three sharpie "fine point" permanent markers - a turqouise blue, a neon green, and a bright yellow. The fine point markets don't have a tiny tip .. they are your basic iconic sharpie marker.
Step 1: I started by painting the recessed areas
with the neon green marker, leaving all raised areas white.
Step 2: I painted the raised area with the yellow marker, taking care to blend where it met with the neon green areas.
Step 3: I repainted the recessed areas using the turqouise marker, which turned the neon green into a nice deep emeral
d colour.
Step 4: I took the neon green marker and used it to blend the areas where the yellow met this new recessed colour. Sometimes the blending was done with a scrubbing motion, and other times it was useful to just use a sketchy brushing motion.
Step 5: I went back with the yellow marker
and touched up the areas that needed brightening. I used a scrubbing motion for this to really "bleach" out the areas needed, such as the little raised dots.
Hope this helps!
-Whystler
License
did you use acetone or something as a finish?