So… I don’t know if it was Mark C, Mark H, or Mark M who left all those comments last week, but thank you 🙂 I enjoyed them! Speaking of Mark, here’s some Mark art from my basement ceiling:
a cauldron of bottle caps!
A friend from work found out I collect bottle caps for another friend’s wife’s art projects and swore to me he had “…a cauldron of them at home…” apparently in his front closet. I didn’t believe him…
looks like I should have 🙂
a pink dragon….
small watercolor doodle from last week:
this one needs a title, too…
I really like how this one turned out….
Here’s how it was made:
Layer 1 = yellow. I wasted a LOT of yellow ink because I wasn’t thinking ahead. There is no reason that I needed to print the entire page in yellow. oh well. live and learn.
Layer 2 = adding copper in for the dandelion. Working smarter this time, I’m only rolling the ink where I know I’ll want the color to be.
Layer 3 = aqua. if I could go back and do it again, I’d probably pick orange or some other warm color since the aqua disappears with the addition of the next layer
Here’s what my kitchen table looked like this morning:
Layer 4 = violet, blue and white
Here’s what my kitchen table looks like right now:
Hello new readers!
Some more color proofs. Turns out this new ink works a little differently than what I’d been using before… and now I have a dozen small pieces of paper that say “Hello”. If you have any idea what to do with them, I’m all ears.
…this one still needs a title. arg.
Sushi!
At the request of my relatives, I brought sushi over to my aunt’s house on Sunday…. but instead of making it at home, I brought all the *tools* to do it at her house. Here’s some that my mom made:
Candied violets!
Last weekend I went to visit Laura. The original plans were to brunch and go biking, but what we did instead was go for a walk with her two dogs, where we found 2 morels along the way (!!!). After that, we decided we wanted to save some of the violets that her dad would be mowing down in the next week, so we picked a kerjillion of them to make candied violets (and pressed some violets, too). Friends, I am not ever planning on doing that again. Laura, the rest of the day was fantastic —- but what a pain to get candied violets to look nice! They are still drying on top of my microwave. Who wants to try some?
And then I played a little with some digital elph technology. Here are two examples of “color swap”…..
Check out these radioactive orange violets:
Run, Laura, Run!
Sweater deconstruction…
Someday, this sweater will be made in to a scarf…. right now, those two balls onthe right are what used to be sweater arms. It’s surprisingly tricky to get a sweater un-done. I suppose it would help if I were more familiar with knitting so I wouldn’t keep picking the wrong end to start from….
Attempt at “professional” coffee
ha ha….. this is harder to do than it looks!
