I got this idea from a woman who had wings on the back of her tee shirt. It was one of those currently-popular Victoriana/skateboard style of designs. I don’t know what it’s called, but here are some examples. I’m sure you’ve seen stuff like this. My daughter calls it “steampunk rock design.” It’s a specific …
Category: Printmaking
Aug 29
Proof Print Crows
Once I finished the silk screen, I wanted to do a proof print to see how it turned out. I use block printing ink for this, as I have a lot of it in different colors. Since I didn’t want to do it for nothing, I printed the crows onto some blank notecards I’d bought …
Aug 22
Tee Shirt Crows
This is kind of a weird picture, because it’s a selection of the tee shirts that I silkscreened my crow onto. I’ll post pictures of the crow later, a close up and some cards that I did. This is actually a new image, not the same crow that I did earlier. I had done the …
Jul 18
Embossed Mug
I didn’t feel much like throwing this class session, so I decided to try some alternative pottery ideas. This is one of them. My friend had some plastic embossing strips for ceramic artists, and she used them to make a cool mug. I made this mug, which didn’t turn out quite as cool because there …
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 …