Jul 23
I decided that the green cover would look good if there were blue stamps over it. I have a large collection of commercial rubber stamps that are so varied (and copyright free) that I sometimes use them despite my aversion to using others’ art in my collage. Of course, once I’d inked up the glass (with …
Jul 19
I had some time tonight, so I painted on washes of acrylic over the book covers. This brightens them up and makes them look more cohesive. Still have very little idea as to what the final pieces will look like. I have a vague idea to make epoxy stickers for them, but haven’t tried yet. …
Jul 12
Yet another smiley ball. This is from the original ten, but I have another batch that will be coming out of the kiln in a week or two. I decided I’m going to just keep making them until they aren’t fun anymore.
Jul 02
I’m having technical difficulties with my photography set up, which means I can’t photograph anything new until I get it fixed. Lucky for me, I’d photographed all these smiley balls as filler for just such a contingency.
Jun 22
I want, above all, to have a kind of chaos to my pieces, the abstraction of something that hasn’t been created by human hands. This, of course, is impossible. Layer two, I rolled out some block printing ink and used some old linoblocks I cut to print on the background. Block printing works better on …
