Starting off with a little project that I finally finished. The Gather socks. I started these in August and finished them in October — not bad for me. I bought the yarn (and needles) from Circle of Yarns in Kalamath Falls OR on the way to Eagle Lake, CA for the16th Annual Pacific Northwest Dryside Gather. Great shop. …
Category Archives: studio
Hand Recursive and Finger Hat.
Slacking on the income earning front and doing art instead. Two completed pieces: Hand recursive. I finished this one a couple of weeks ago. It was my first try in this shape. Finger Hat A 4X4 on heavy watercolor paper. Images from needlework magazines, buttons from heaven only knows where and a bit of type from my …
Yellow Walls
The painters are done and I have reclaimed my space. The move out and back into the studio was almost painless. Probably because I had recently reorganized all the crap and there had not been much time for cruft to accumulate. My office is another story. edited 25.june.2008 to correct image links
Family Photographs — It’s All Grist for the Mill
I’ve been collecting up the old photo albums and sorting the pictures. There are a number that I’d like to use in the collages. But of course I don’t want to glue up my only copy of great-grandmother’s portrait so… It’s time to get scanning. I’ll leave the hassles of getting an elderly scanner to …
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Reusable Grocery Bag
Everybody is doing it. Even here in the “bubble.” Using those ugly green reusable grocery bags. Heartwarming eco-points 8. Style points 0. I won’t even mention what they chose to fill it with for this image. Yuck! I made this one yesterday. Heartwarming eco-points 8. Style points 6. Maybe. It’s still better than some vaguely polyester green …
TGIF — Gothic Arches
Two new/old gothic arches. I found these while I was purging the working projects piles. They aren’t much to look at being just a couple of experiments with background creation techniques. The birds and flowers was based on a piece of paper towel that I had used as a wiper for water colors in another …
WIP — The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)
Our recent vacation gave Jim the chance to take a lot of pictures of motorcycles and riders on the proverbial “closed course.” Some of them are in fact “professional riders.” I now have tons of uncluttered photos to work with. Hence the creation of a new series of work, this time in engineered paper. First …
learning to work with the new serger
So it’s been a month or so since i got my serger. I made a couple of starter projects on it when i first unpacked it but I had other projects (xmas) that needed my attention and i didn’t have a chance to get back to it until last week. I have a terrible time buying …
Shiny…
I took a PMC (precious metal clay) workshop with Meredith Arnold last weekend. It took about 8 hours to make these four pieces in a class room. They are construction samples so finish quality is low. PMC is nice to work with. The tools can be very simple and it really does work like modeling clay. (Though …
Housekeeping
I cleaned out the top drawer in my bedside table. Among the detritus were these. Ranging form a brass koala given to me by a stranger in San Francisco my freshman year in college to a bottle shaped pin from the Maker’s Mark distillery and about a dozen zoos in between.