Concrete Art

Concrete art involves concrete and other cement-based materials to fabricate or coat surfaces where color, texture and shapes are key elements of a design.

Arizona-based Artist Offers Colorful Concrete Clocks

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If you’re looking to outfit your house from top to bottom in concrete — floors, walls, kitchen and/or furniture — what better way to top it off than with a concrete clock?

A Decorative Concrete Startup Raises Money on Kickstarter

The Kickstarter capital-raising website is being used succesfully by forward-thinking musicians, filmmakers and artists and entrepreneurs of every stripe. Let’s see if it can help a newbie decorative concrete artisan raise $6,500 by August 4 for a new casting studio.

A Sprawling Ocean Mural Graces an Australian Fish Market

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Elite Crete Australia and decorative concrete artist Audra Lynch Nanay, of Audra Lynch & Cie, Chicago, have brought the ocean ashore in greater Melbourne. Their ocean-themed concrete mural sweeps across a restored footpath outside of Conway Fish Trading, in Footscray.

Creativity Abounds in Friendly Concrete Competition

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A recent blog post on BuddyRhodes.com talked about wanting to make bigger, better objects. But because they strive to do the unexpected, they put forth a challenge to see what artists could do to make smaller objects instead.

Contemporary Artist Turns to Concrete

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For those who don’t work with concrete on a daily basis, there’s an impression of it being either an ancient medium, as in the Pantheon and other Roman ruins made out of concrete or a modern industrial building material that gets covered up somehow.

Trio Creates Heartfelt 9/11 Memorial in Watchung, New Jersey

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When sculptor Seth R. Alexander teamed up with concrete artisan Richard Winget and his son, Jacob Winget, to create the Watchung 9/11 Memorial in New Jersey last summer, the task truly involved the whole borough of Watchung.

Concrete and Glass Mosaic Map of Bainbridge Island, Wash.

Concrete Art Bridges, Roads & Highways Vol. 7 No. 1 - February 2007 by Concrete Decor Staff Comments are Disabled

In 2005, Mesolini Glass Studio was commissioned by the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island to create a concrete-and-glass mosaic map of the island to be placed at the new Rotary Gateway Park.

The Illuminator Creates the Magic For Fiber Optics in Concrete

Concrete Art Vol. 10 No. 1 - January 2010 by Amy Johnson Comments are Disabled

The illuminator is a sort of "magic box" that performs several functions in a fiber-optic concrete installation. First, it is the place where the light source illuminates the fibers. Second, it is the matrix that holds the fibers in place in the order required to create a desired effect. Third, it houses the equipment that controls the color, brightness and sequence of the lights.

Recipe: Breathing Light Into Your Work with Color

Concrete Art Recipes Staining & Coloring Concrete Vol. 8 No. 3 - May 2008 by Concrete Decor Staff Comments are Disabled

When you have a dark grey slab, you have to take into consideration how that will affect color and its intensity. Most of the colorants on the market differ as much in transparency as concrete differs in color and porosity.

Designer Cast-iron Drain Covers from Iron Age Designs

Concrete Art Concrete Placing Vol. 7 No. 3 - May 2007 by Concrete Decor Staff Comments are Disabled

Decorative grates made of cast iron look impressive. But too often, they’re also expensive, so they aren’t considered for any projects but those with the largest budgets. A company called Iron Age Designs hopes to change that. Iron Age grates are manufactured using cost-efficient Danish technology, so they can be […]