#black 3.0

[joesleftskeleton]

Bring me to Fruition

-Oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on wood panel

(If you wanted to watch the progress):

My last self portrait before top surgery next week, I deemed this appropriate using the Blackest Black acrylic (Black 3.0) while playing into the contrasts. The pink oils and the brilliant gold stand out amongst the void like darkness that surround the figures. This was a very vulnerable piece that I am still bracing myself to share. Coming to terms with my body now, before it is altered to be what I’ve always wanted, is very peaceful. It’s a mutual understanding with my past. Letting go of her but not saying goodbye. She’s not dead, so I’m not going to mourn her. She’s with me through it all and I hope she’s proud of me.

[weirdosweirdart]

[maximura]

Today I learnt about how Stuart Semple created Black 3.0 (absorbs 97-99% of light) as a Fcuk You to Anish Kapoor for hoarding the rights to Vantablack (absorbs 99.96% of light). Then while those two were being petty and bickering, someone in Japan created Musou Black (absorbs 99.4% of light) and now that’s probably the blackest black paint you can buy. 

[edenor-does-art]

Watercolour and black 3.0 on paper

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[vro0m]

oh wow usually flash shines a little on black paint there's nothing there thats so cool

Yes exactly!

So the story goes artist Anish Kapoor bought the artistic rights to the vantablack, the blackest black in the world, in 2016. It created controversy because it meant no other artist was allowed to use it, even though there was no other pigment like it existing. It could not be replaced by anything else.

Another artist, Stuart Semple, got really pissed at this (like a lot of other artists) and created a new pigment himself, the pinkest pink, in answer. It is available commercially to anybody who isn't Kapoor, and you have to confirm when you buy it that you're not Anish Kapoor, affiliated with him, buying it for him or an associate of Kapoor. Which is hilarious. And the pinkest pink was very successful.

So people started asking Semple to make a black. And so he did. And that's the black 3.0 you saw in my photo. You also can't buy it if your Anish Kapoor, and it's way more affordable than Kapoor's vantablack, which he hasn't been able to use much since 2016. And vantablack is not even the blackest black in the world anymore, because the MIT has produced a blacker black than that in 2019, which they also intend to make available to all artists.

Anyway, the black 3.0 absorbs 98-99% of light which is why you can't see any shine! (vantablack absorbs 99.965% of light, and the MIT's black absorbs 99.995% of light).

This image is from the website that sells it :

And you can do really cool things with it!

That's all sorry for info dumping on you Anon! I'm just very excited about it 😊

[thegardenandthegrave]

Black 3.0

I am not Anish Kapoor, I am in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor [and] I am not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor.

[strangeandworthit]

So I really wanted to make some TMA fan art and by pure coincidence my sister got me some Black 3.0 for my birthday. What better to paint The Dark? I decided to paint Manuela Dominguez and her creation of the dark star, took some liberties with what the strain would do to her for Aesthetique

I’m pretty happy with how it came out, though it’s frustrating that I can’t get the camera to pick up how light absorbent the star actually is!

Edit: this also uses Mirror for the non-black streaks on her cheeks, as an homage to the white mist that pours out of Maxwell Rayner when he shifts bodies. I liked the contrast on the light catching on that whilst absorbing entirely into the star.

MAG 135: Dark Matter

[spacecasecreates]

Its 8.40pm which means its the PERFECT time to start a 20inx10in WTNV inspired painting 💕