Sandcastle Kingdoms - Blog Posts

Hi everyone, long time no see! I realize that I’ve kind of neglected posting on this page, but no more! I’ve got a bunch of new art-related stuff coming out, so stay tuned as I update this page more and more!

To start, I’ve been experimenting with artist trading cards, and I came up with a few different series of them. Each card is based off of a song that has been important to me in one way or another, so to start it off, I’ve released some by my favorite musician of all time: NateWantsToBattle!

If you would like to see more of these cards, they’re available on my Etsy listing here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/786821201/song-trading-cards-natewantstobattle?ref=shop_home_active_4

If you would like to check out what else I’ve got, here’s a link to my shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaintingFire448

I’ll be trying to update this page more frequently with other art that I’ve done over the past few months or so, so stay tuned!

Progress

Based on NateWantsToBattle’s song “Live Long Enough to Become the Hero”

And here’s the demo video of the bluetooth speaker drawing machine I made for my series “What Do Songs Look Like?”. This uses NateWantsToBattle’s cover of Emperor’s New Clothes by Panic! At The Disco

https://youtu.be/ZFtJ8Lsm_Dg

So this is a new experimental art series I wanted to try out - I wanted to play around with seeing what a song would "look" like if it were "printed" on a sheet of paper. I used a bluetooth speaker's drum and some ink that shot out to the beat of the different songs I played onto trading cards. This set of trading cards are from every single NateWantsToBattle song that I have on my phone. I’ll be posting a demo video in a bit of the speaker making one of the cards- stay tuned!

I’ve been making a lot of connections to this song over the past couple of days- here’s a painting for it. Painting’s inspired by “StopRewind” by NateWantsToBattle

And here’s ANOTHER OSB painting lol- this one is based on NateWantsToBattle’s song StopRewind

And here’s one more painting and it’s details cause why not! This is another painting based on a NateWantsToBattle song- To The Ends of The Earth

Hey guys! I know it’s been a LONG time since I’ve actually done any updates, but I’m coming back to you guys again with a new painting series I started!

Each painting in this series is based on a song I listened to over and over again throughout the course of the process. I wanted to take the song and really think about how I felt listening to it, and try to capture it using fluid acrylic paint in an abstract painting. These are some of the paintings that came of this whole process.

This particular set are all based on songs from NateWantsToBattle. In order, they are:

1. Live Long Enough to Become the Hero (Sandcastle Kingdoms)

2. Twisted (Songs of Time)

3. Time to Go (Songs of Time)

4. Branded (Sandcastle Kingdoms)

If you’re interested in checking them out for yourself, you can find them on my Etsy page here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaintingFire448

I’ll be posting the other paintings I worked on so far in just a bit, so keep a look out for those too! If you have a particular song you like that you don’t see in what I’ve got up so far, you can message me through here or Etsy, or you can email me at paintingfire448@gmail.com with special requests.