DYE JOB

Impulse purchase #64876 - flowers.

LIKE RIDING A BIKE.

COWBOY VAMPIRE.

EXPERIMENTS!

After seeing this post online by Caitlin Mociun I was inspired to give potato printing a try. I went with triangles (like the tutorial) to keep the experiment as simple as possible (not to mention that triangles rank pretty high on my favourite shapes list). I really like the imperfect, slightly askew motif that was produced by hand stamping the pattern! It probably took about the same amount of time as screen printing would, with a higher probability of error, but it was a pretty enjoyable experiment and I like the results. There will be more manipulated vegetables in my future!

Speaking of vegetables, my pal Shayna and I planted a late season garden in a community garden plot just over a week ago. We have no idea what we're doing but we're both excited about learning the ropes! Here is a shot of our gardens humble beginnings.

THUMBS UP!

I love this SO MUCH.
By David Fullarton (spotted on For Me For You).

FILE MANAGEMENT

I finally updated my way out of date website.
It's super simple right now but I like it!

At some point I'd like to take pictures of my prints and replace the digital versions on the website with their far more vibrant, better looking real life twins. Because paint is basically made of magic.

Are you good at file management? I like to think I'm an organized person, but I'm absolutely not. I've lied to myself about being organized my entire life and it's time to fess up! I make piles, I never hang up my clothes, and everything gets saved to my desktop. I wonder if it's too late to teach an old dog new tricks?

KILLING TIME.

TAKE ONE

I've been busy with band adventures lately and haven't done much drawing or printing. I did develop my first roll of film from the new Diana camera though! Dreamy, unfocused pictures make me the HAPPIEST.

HOT SUMMER FASHION.

This week I printed up some new t-shirts for my band.
Speaking of which, we just started a band blog HERE!

SOUND ADVICE.

The other day I won a couple of very nice letterpress posters by Roll & Tumble Press via Heart Handmade. Awesome! Think Before Speaking is surely something I could stand to be reminded of more often. Considering this is the first contest I've ever won, perhaps the universe thinks so too?

SETTING RECORDS.

Vinyl turned out to be a pretty good surface for printing on!

I picked up a new impractical plastic toy this week!
Somewhere there is a pawn shop owner with a lot of nice, dependable cameras laughing at me.

RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD.

Next printing project = a poster printed on vinyl records.
For the Music Gallery's 33 1/3rd Birthday Fundraiser.
A new printing surface!
Fingers crossed for smooth sailing.

STRIKE!

BITS AND BYTES

D: "It's A Hell Of A Hobby"

Screen printing is for crazy people.