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In opdracht maak ik taartdozen, geen dozen om taarten in te doen, maar dozen die eruitzien als taarten. Ik heb wat houten fruit beschilderd voor een van mijn 'taartdozen'.
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Painting wooden fruit for a box looking like a cake, a very funny commision to work on.
These flowers were made from painted non-woven interfacing with centres of dyed kitchen sponge. The flowers were waxed with acrylic wax before they were sewn to the waistcoat.
Not sure I'm loving the pink wedge - I did a light and dark of each color, and my thought was that light red is actually pink, but I'm not sure I like that. Maybe a darker pink would work better there...
To a colorful string quilt!!
I'm following the string quilt tutorial by filminthefridge.
I'm going to love this one!!! 10 blocks down!
I have had this idea in my mind for a very long time and finally got together all of the components I needed to do some etching onto copper from my photographs. I settled on a salt water technique (using battery power) as I want to do it in a domestic environment and the idea of using slightly less toxic kitchen supplies appeals to me.
The first trial I did last night was better than I expected, but clearly far from perfect - the resist I'd used to transfer the design to the sheet to act as a mask for the etching wasn't up to the task and started to etch away itself in places and left me with a rather noisy and textured background around the image.
This was take 2 (having picked up a fabulous tip from a model makers forum) and it worked far, far better than I hoped. I'm astonished at the detail the etch has retained and the clarity of the edges - considering that it's only about an inch across. I'll work it into a pendant and antique it.
I've blogged about my new aventures in etching with some work in progress photos etc.
If you join two motifs together.... you get a bishops hat!! Hah.
There must be someone, somewhere who needs a miniature bishops mitre.
What if you used these motifs to create flower trumpets for an exotic flower, or even make them larger and create a bag?
Shown here on top of my Jenny Oliver chest of heads, and with my Orkney triptych.
A convenient ledge for work in progress.
here's how I'm going about making my "Lockwasher" version of Tony Starks famous helmet - Step 1 - start with a 1950's floor buffer motor cover, stick on a bunch of painters tape and draw in Iron Man's helmet details. Next make a paper template of one side and duplicate it so everything sorta symmetrical..
Just starting to gather possible ephemera and papers for a new piece which will be my contribution to the forthcoming "Adhesion" exhibition
I attended a class given by Anne Conybeare yesterday at Westhope College during which we looked at the work of Andre Gurtler and Denise Lach.
We had a session using a "Cola pen" which was fun, and then we did some "nonsense writing" using a medium of our choice.
I enjoy writing with correction fluid, so this is what I used, and I then ran an ink wash over it. I used cheap brown paper for the backing.
I am now translating some of the marks into stitch and making a small book to showcase the samples.
Please see previous posts regarding the making of the face.
I have now coated the face with several layers of soy wax and then I padded it underneath before stitching it to the croched and knitted background.
This picture shows the extent of the moulding of the face.
Mixed media.
I'm not any good at buildings, but they're not really the focal point of the eventual scene here. Respect to those who can build non-shite-looking buildings; I promise to try and silently mock you far less.
Still a lot of details and work to do yet, just wanted to show off what I've spent most of my weekend on so far. Not perfect, but satisfactory as a WIP.