Buying storage seems crazy when you have lots of boxes and lots of paper and paint.
I needed ink storage. I ’m not as careful and thorough as I once was, but, “Ta Da!”
(Washi tape is not sticky enough.)
Oct2
An Ink Box
Category Archives: craft
Oct2
Old, Used, Dryer Sheets
I’ve been meaning to try this for months. I’ve been saving used dryer sheets and planned to join them with gel medium. Yesterday, I gave it a shot. I overlapped 3 pieces on a plastic sheet. I brushed them heavily with Liquitex Satin Medium. I used a new brush from Hobby Lobby and spent a lot of time picking hairs out of the medium. I won’t be buying that brand of brush, again. Fine Artist, my eye!
I let them dry overnight and they pulled up in one piece, like I’d hoped.
The “hand” is wonderfully rough, wrinkled, and dry. The backside is shiny and rubbery.
I’m not sure how I’ll use these “papers,” but this technique is worth repeating.
Sep23
The Idea Lady
I just finished and framed my “Idea Lady.” She’s a very bad magazine image transfer that I festooned with butterflies I punched from clothing catalogs. Those butterflies are all ideas coming out of her head. She doesn’t look like me, but she is me, so I’ll keep her for myself. Now, where to hang her?
Sep21
More from the 100 Day Project
Sep20
Revisiting the 100 Days
Here are photos of the experiments I conducted and the papers I created during The 100 Days Project. I concentrated on making collage papers.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Sep13
Something Worked!
So, I got an idea to enhance the flowers with puffy paint.
It dried shiny, and almost crystalline looking. It looks great, but is very hard to photograph.
Sep8
An Amazing Merling Morning!
Laura and I made merlings yesterday morning! Merlings are the brain child of Christi Friesen.
Sep2
Another Friday Finish!
The image is a momigamied page from a local magazine, mounted on white metallic painted tissue, mounted on canvas board painted metallic blue.
Instead of using oil, as in traditional momigami, I dry brushed some of the white metallic paint and added tiny specks of iridescent white glitter glue.
I made the paddle with a piece of dowel and polymer clay. The wave at the bottom is made of silver tube beads laid end to end.
The hanging cord is a piece of salvaged ear wire. The paddle is secured with pieces of braided “mini rope.”
The whole piece is finished with 7coats of clear gloss spray. I also gave it a couple of shots of UV Preserve before adding the gloss spray.
It is signed and dated with my K♥️ signature under one loose corner of the momigamied image.
Sep1
Fixed and Finished
If you can knit, you’ll always have something to pass the time.
Aug31
Happy Belated Birthday to Me!
