Two Roses And A Thorn with Ben Houtkamp of Ben's Website

Cracked with Chevonne Ariss

For today’s episode of Cracked I had the pleasure of speaking with Chicago artist Ben Houtkamp of Ben’s Website.
Ben has one of the most recognizable styles I have seen to date. His brightly colored pieces are reminiscent of childhood nostalgia, video games and puzzles. His work is happy. and we all need more happy. I’m a Big Ben fan and I think you will be too.

To see more of Ben’s work, his instagram is @bens.website and his website is benswebsite.net.
For all the Patreon page members Ben has a discount code for 40% off everything in his online shop, this includes merchandise as well as his glasswork. and for 3 lucky Patreon members he’s sending a wine tote. They’re so cute, they come in two different color choices and they each hold 2 bottles of wine. I’ll be doing a drawing in my instagram stories on December 11th 2022.
Honorable mentions from this episode:
Ben shops at
www.edhoy.com
Ben’s dad’s website-
frankhoutkamp.com
Frankie's company is called graphic image corp!
teamgic.com

Ben’s pinks:

“I usually use "petal pink", 000421-0030-F which is more of a pastel, bubblegum pink. also love the 'pink' 000301-0030-F, but the sheets can be very dense and inconsistent. some batches are better than others. ive gotten friendly with one of the bullseye sales reps who helps me find production batches of the nice translucent sheets that i prefer to use.”

Crown Metal:
"I believe the number is 414-384-6500. If you google them, the WRONG number comes up. 121 E Washington St in Milwaukee, Wi.”

lego island wiki
wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Island
“Please check it out, bask in the early WWW nostalgia”

Favorite artists:
Roger Brown
Alexander Guy
alexanderguy.co.uk
Konrad Klapheck
museummore.nl
John Wesley
artnet.com
Peter Saul
venusovermanhattan.com
David Jien
davidjien.com
Pedro Pedro
interviewmagazine.com
Matthew Palladino
juxtapoz.com

Glass artists:
Kristi Cavataro
news.artnet.com
Haba Herosima
@glassworker88
Jin Young
@jinyoungglass
Timo Fahler
@team__oh

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