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!
The arboretum in May
I owe a big thank you to J in CA for sending me an awesome letter with a scavenger hunt in it…. it made me go to places in Madison that I’d not been to in a great long while and take pictures to prove that I solved the puzzle. 🙂
Here is what one of the clues yielded:
oh man, I am not up-to-speed on this blog. I keep promising people weekly updates and I haven’t even updated the sidebar to show May intentions and May is practically over. I have many pictures just waiting to be cropped & FTP’d and posted up here…. it’s just a matter of making myself come inside to do it. This kind of makes me want to invest in a laptop so I can sit outside & do this stuff. Think that would work?
Reduction proof
I made a (semi)quick proof for an idea I had…. and I had a really hard time picking what colors to use:
Here are some close-ups of a few selected color combinations:
I’m still not sure what I’m going to do for the actual print but luckily the procrastinating is facilitated by still not having any nice paper in the house 🙂
OoOoOooooo….
holy cow…. I’m the “Artist of the Month” over at Four Oceans Press in California.
hot dog art?
One entertaining art night we, ah, started playing with food – cutting it in to small pieces, mixing different food together and rearranging it:
the real art, however, is the smile-y face made with the orange bingo stamper that you can see just under one of the plates 😉
the other striped prints….
On black paper:
On white paper (and in a different order. doh!):
Diagonal stripes…. printed!
From this:
Comes this:
and this:
woohoooo – new ink!
look at what came in the mail yesterday:
….now let the printing adventures begin!
