How often do you guys participate in arts and crafts?

the only 2 guys that i know
that does arts and crafts is my son
and and my grandson

my son is 30yrs
my grandson is 20
and he does tattoos

Painting
Creative Writing
Calligraphy
Bottle Cutting
Custom Photo Editing

That's about all right now.
In the past I was more involved.

Never... men don't do that

Make Chain Mail Armor from Start to Finish
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Great time waster that has a financial payoff in sales at craft shows. Plus, you can do it while watching a game.

I also made steel weapons, steel BBQ pits and steel lockboxes during downtime in the shop.

Then there was the whole woodworking thing I had going in my garage in the summers.

As a kid, I made dirt bike mazes with ramps and stuff.

Had a lot of fun making scrapyard buggies too.

oh I love arts and crafts!

I create digital arts and my latest passion is creating blingees...

Here's a series of simple graphics I did for a horror movie forum

Bottle cutting, people buy them if you do it right.

oooh so creepy, tom!

Although I am not into gothic, I participate in gothic challenges art..

I do arty crafty things when I feel like it, sometimes hardly ever, sometimes for days straight.

Not crocheting doilies, and glittering up birthday cards, but a variety.

Assembling a fiddly model plane now, will touch up an old painting another day.
Craft includes many things, eg. camp craft - making useful things from natural materials.

I have made a canoe and a coracle, model boats and planes, modified pushbikes, made a mini stove, fabricated toolboxes into the car (4x4), and heaps more.

When a man is tinkering in the shed, that is craft.
When a man is trying to understand a woman, that is an art.

Yeah, about the only thing I could do with a knitting needle is stab someone (LOL).

I had an old electric oven in the garage and used to do custom cover pans for people. I've done electro-chrome plating but never owned a vat. ~Wishing I had pictures of the red & black valve covers I did for a co-worker - they turned out beautiful.

My sons were into sandblasting and wood-burning/carving.

Dremel kits are awesome man gifts.

Hey guys, don't knock knitting. tis very therapeutic... they say.

I try to learn how to knit but after one ugly scarf, I kinda put everything away. lol

Yup, like I said...stab someone...

Id love to take a jewelry metal working class.

My uncle used to tie flies.
My nephew used to paint miniatures.
My brother in law makes homemade beer, wine and sauerkraut.
My sister used to make stained glass (she used ppd working with the glass and lead)


You could still do that but do it for craft fairs where only the finished products are sold and no orders are taken. Such a cool idea. You could even create a few sets with the jumpers as the theme style of a wide assortment to be sold as an ensemble.

Please don't get me wrong, I was just throwing an idea out there.

My brother in law's sister makes quilts.
She entered into a contest to make as many quilts in a year as possible and won. She won $5,000 and had her picture and her entry in the local paper.
She made the paper again when she donated 150 quilts to homeless shelters. She said people offered to buy them but she donated them because people needed them and she was not making them to get rich (already wealthy).

Arts and crafts is not merely making things to make money.
Its something to do. Ask any old man whittling on the porch in his rocker.

I paint because I need to paint. I have never tried to sell my work. If someone likes it, they can have it.

I did lots of art in HS and even took summer school classes in different fields related to art. Before I decided to be a mechanic, I was planning a career in Commercial Art and Advertising.

One style of art that I did in school but have not tried since is ink scratch. Its very similar to pencil art.

What you do is lay a layer of ink on a surface with a roller and let it dry. Then you use quills and knives (pointy things) to scratch the ink away in great detail.
It can get pretty intense.
Here's a couple random samples...





My art teacher has a multi-layer, multi-color sunset/lighthouse in his classroom that he did. It was amazing.

My art teacher had (he's dead now) a multi-layer, multi-color sunset/lighthouse in his classroom that he did. It was amazing.

Wrong.