Inspriation: Zapotec Designs

We spent Sat­ur­day with our friend Demetrio Bautista Lazo the weaver. In addi­tion to eat­ing too much. (Gra­cias, Mari­bel por la comi­da muy deli­cioso!) We went walk­ing around the town of Teoti­t­lan. That’s Demetrio show­ing me a tree of life … 

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New Techniques

I’ve got a shiny new copy of Pho­to­shop CS3 and have been exper­i­ment­ing. In Pho­to­shop Cre­ative Col­lec­tion v3 (no link avail­able) there’s a tech­nique that mim­ics pen and ink. Some­thing that is sim­i­lar to some water­col­or and ink work that … 

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One Finished and One Not-So-Much

Work on the bal­loon sell­er pic­ture is com­plete. You can see a full-size dig­i­tal ver­sion here. (no small ver­sion today — can’t get it to resize cor­rect­ly — maybe tomor­row) The image in the gallery is a dig­i­tal ver­sion that I made for Jim … 

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Favorite Objects

These are match box­es. I buy them in Oax­a­ca Mex­i­co. The actu­al­ly come with match­es in them. Though I have to throw them out before I try to bring the box­es home. I got these two box­es in Cora­zon Zapote­ca in … 

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