Seokhee Oh manages and operates the WikiFacturing Camp at the Gyeonggi Content Korea Lab in Pangyo, South Korea, and works for SeongNam Industry Promotion Agency. But, most importantly, Seokhee is a father. And when his son, Myung-Jin Oh brought home a creative project assignment for winter break, the pair turned to 3D printing to bring it to life.
Myung-Jin Oh has a passion for drawing and admires the work of the famous impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Seokhee Oh wanted his son’s project to go beyond a painting or drawing. In turn, he found the browser-based Tinkercad app for simple 3D modeling, with the intent to 3D print a van Gogh piece on their Almond 3D printer from Opencreators (see it in action here). So, the father-son duo went to work, searching for the ideal Van Gogh piece for the project.
They poured over internet images, visited an exhibition, watched a movie about the artist, and read a book on him, twice. Ultimately, they chose Bedroom in Arles, of which Van Gogh had made 3 versions. Now, Myung-Jin Oh was adding his own. He sketched out his piece and then worked with his father to make a printable model in Tinkercad.
Once the pieces were printed, they used acrylic paint to mimic the brushstrokes of Van Gogh, cut cloth for the room’s curtains and bedsheets, and even reproduced the items on the nightstand in the painting. Suddenly, Myung-Jin Oh had his own 3D version of Bedroom in Arles, and Seokhee had memories to share with his son for the artful years ahead. See the original Evernote version of the story here.
