Jan 24
This is a present I made for Jane, whose birthday is tomorrow. My camera isn’t here right now, so I had to photograph it using the scanner instead. It would have scanned better if I had done it before gluing on the barette backing, but I think the detail came out well enough. This piece …
Jan 15
After the leather dried, I painted it with acrylic paint. They do sell dyes for leather, but the guy at Tandy, who was perfectly willing to sell me hundreds of dollars of crap I don’t need, said that acrylic would work just fine. I first painted the sun red, then painted over it with gold …
Jan 14
Here’s the cover I’m doing for my altered book. I used a piece of vegetable cured leather, 4-5oz.  I wanted to have the look of cord-bound book, so I wrapped plastic over the book (to protect it from water) then wound it with twine. I got the leather wet and stretched it over the twine to …
Jan 13
Altered Book 7Â Altered Book 6Â Altered Book 5Â Altered book 4Altered book 2 Altered book 1I started a round-robin altered book project with three other artists. Each of us chose a book and altered it in some way. I chose to alter the structure, and cut windows through the pages. I used paste and scraps of paper …
Jan 13
This glass is made with amethyst frit and cobalt frit. The cobalt turns an iridescent lavender when it’s incandescent hot. It reminds me of the pinkish-lavender that some cobalt based underglazes have.   It’s hard to see the color in this light, because it’s so dark, but it’s intense dark blue with dots of violet.
