Category Archives: TGIF

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 … 

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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 to use on his desk­top. It mim­ics the effect of being print­ed on Arch­es 140 … 

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Stenciling a Three Panel Screen, Part II

More on the screen for Jim’s office. Once the sten­cil had had chance to dry I took the fab­ric pan­els off the screen (yeay vel­cro.) I did­n’t do any prep work on the fab­ric  —  poly(?) can­vas. The paint will stick well enough and I don’t expect to try to wash the pan­els. By the time … 

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TGIF — Pierced ‘Single Tree’ Ring

The ring I was work­ing on for JM1 at Pratt is final­ly done. The shiny grey-black on the top of the ring is liv­er of sul­fur pati­na heav­i­ly worked with a brass brush. I got as lit­tle of the LoS onto the ring band as pos­si­ble and it only took a few min­utes with sand paper … 

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