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It’s live!

July 16, 2008

I’ve been working on it for some time. I’ve even alluded to it briefly here. But now it’s finished. Well, finished enough to go live. Behold, my Digifolio.

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I’ve been thinking, and it wasn’t pretty

July 8, 2008

Custom design is a good challenge, but it takes up a lot of time. I think most artists agree that commissions tend to take the fun out of the process. Even though you love the work, it becomes just that — work — and it gets tough to be excited about it when there’s half [...]

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Mystery of the box labeled "misc"

June 23, 2008

Since the addition of a new printer, I’ve been slowly reorganizing my workspace. Slowly. As I’m reorganizing, I’m coming across all kinds of things I’d almost forgotten about: mainly supplies for various projects I’d intended to start. I have a growing pile of fabric I had bought for some sewing projects that were never started [...]

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It’s getting printerlicious in this studio

June 12, 2008

Listening to Lily Allen right now via Pandora. Her music never fails to put me in a sarcastically upbeat mood. Writing this intermittently as I’m trying to find an unobtrusive spot in my ever-evolving home studio for the newest electro-mechanical device to be inducted into my service. The benefit of being forced to turn my [...]

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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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