April 2008

Digifolio

April 20, 2008

I didn’t work (much) on any prints or designs or anything really this weekend. I was a little preoccupied with running my first 10K and all of the post-10K activity, in addition to getting not one, not two, not three, NOT EVEN FOUR, but FIVE (5!) lights installed at my house. My world is literally [...]

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When life hands you lemons

April 14, 2008

I wanted to print a good lemon slice this weekend, dagnabit! So I busted out the Wonder-Cut and started carving with my brand-new linoleum cutter (no rust!). But while the Wonder-Cut carves like buttah, I can’t get some of the tight little lines and details that I like, AND I’ve encountered some problems printing designs [...]

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Live and learn

April 13, 2008

I received a shipment of printmaking supplies on Friday, so I got to do some printing this weekend! Included in the shipment was a product I’d never tried before, called Scratch-A-Print 2, and decided to try it as an alternative to screen printing. It started with a sketch of a lemon slice: And a screen, [...]

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New addition

April 4, 2008

It’s here. It arrived yesterday, and to my delight set up in less than, what? Thirty minutes? There’s not much I can really say about my new iMac, except that I love it without exception. IS IT NOT BEAUTIFUL?!?! When I turned it on, it started playing music and animation and welcomed me in a [...]

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Run, Sarah, run

April 3, 2008

Over the past weekend I made time to get in the studio and finish off the block I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. I carved out a few more elements to tie the whole design together: a box to enclose the donkey and grass, and the text, which helps drive the punch [...]

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