Nov 12
Inspired by the previous book in the rainbow series, I decided I wanted to do some more lettering. It used to be that people who painted signs and drew ads had to paint the letters and numbers by hand, and they had to use both precision and creativity in designing their own fonts. I wanted …
Nov 10
This was another one of the rainbow series books, so-called because of the rainbow look of the tie-dyed/marble technique fabric I used for the base. After the layers of masking tape and washes, I had blocks of color, which I added stamps to. This one has silver rub-and-buff as accents. I wanted to try some …
Nov 02
My favorite, of course, is the red one with the K in it. I also like how random the gold leaf turned out, and the familiarity of the watch buckle. Might see more watch parts, as we have quite a few broken watches and watch bands around here.
Oct 31
I finally got the resin working right in these. I managed to get some disposable graduated mixing cups from my dad, and when I scrupulously measured each part, it cured properly. I tried very hard to make the suspended doo-dads within the resin match the background. I particularly like the small mirror and the piece …
Oct 28
These bottlecaps were also thrown away because of a problem with improperly mixed resin. Pouring new resin on top of the uncured resin does not solve the problem. At least I have plenty of bottlecaps left.
