Here’s the second set of magnets I made for the Clarion Foundation’s Write-a-thon this year. Some lucky person will get these. Keys donated by Kim Stanley Robinson. I hope they’re going to a good fridge.
Category: alternart
Jun 21
Magnet Set 2
I experimented with different things to set in the resin, and some were more successful than others. The gold leaf didn’t have that lovely suspended quality I had hoped for. The small metal button in the bottom one is nice, though the glare of the light (which was even filtered!) makes it hard to see. …
Jun 14
Magnet Set 1
We got a new refrigerator, so to make it feel welcome, I made a set of magnets. Here are some of them, photographed in their natural habitat. To do a project like this, you have to have lots and lots of little pieces and different types of paper, otherwise they aren’t terribly creative.
May 15
Silkscreened shirts
I made a new silkscreen of a nearly identical crow this week. Today I silkscreened them on to my remaining tee shirts. I think I have a lot of tee shirts. After this, I was supposed to iron them for 3-5 minutes on each side to set the ink. This ended up kind of scorching …
Apr 26
Silkscreen cards
After I finished silkscreening my tee shirts, I wanted to see if I could use blockprinting ink on the silkscreen. I had to wash the silkscreening ink off, and it specifically said that you mustn’t have any ink on the silk or you would ruin it, so I scrubbed fiercely. I didn’t realize that the …