Molly's tile

Damon's tile

Leigha's tile

Renee's tile

Basement Bar Ceiling Transition

And finally..... here's the main transition from a flourescent bar with a white ceiling...... to a recessed light, painted ceiling!



At this point the lights are fully enclosed with the ceiling tile & only 3 panels remain unpainted. Up close individual ceiling tile shots to follow over the course of the next week or so.

February window, continued

Tuesday night (since mardi gras festivities were cancelled due to a host who was feeling under the weather) I got *this* far:


Two (of five) colors are cut.

Now, however, I'm reconsidering going entirely clear.... there are parts here that I think might be pretty nice to put in color.... maybe.... good thing I won't have time to work on this until Sunday. That should be enough time to let the color ideas swirl around into a decision.

the beginning of the window....

Sunday I picked up my long-lost sketchbook and picked out one of my favorite designs for the window.... Monday I got this far:

Created 2 copies of a life-size drawing of the window & picked out glass:


Originally I was going to cut one of the drawings apart to use as a template but I realized that since this window is going to be a combination of many different kinds of clear glass, I can just put the glass on top of the pattern and trace it right on the glass. Yay! Several steps easier!

Started cutting glass:


Note: the bar in my basement is extremely comfortable for this. The height is a very nice working height. I may move future art nights downstairs - especially while it's still dark and cold and wintry outside.

In the pipeline for February....

- photograph the ceiling tile mural & post that on here. This also includes tracking down the 3 people who've not yet painted their promised paintings... consider yourselves warned :)
- re-wire the large kiln in my basement
- decide on a 23.5" x 15.5" design for a stained glass window
- create the window!
- rehabilitate many pounds of clay & many jars of neglected glazes
- decide whether or not to participate in:
---> the 3rd (4th?) annual Earth Day Celebration the ReStore in April
---> the Recycle/Reuse Art Auction
---> the silent auction @ work

In roughly that order. I also have some ideas incorporating Latvian designs in to light switches, making a second window if the first one turns out well enough, and once D & I coordinate our schedules, there will be a 3.5' x 7.5' painting thrown in that list, too ... though at the moment this is still in the "brand new canvas needs prep" stage so no promises on pictures.

More light switches....

Note to self..... investigate better photography practices, hints, tips-n-tricks..... maybe create my own photography space for taking slides & photographs for my portfolio. The word for this escapes me at the moment, but I've seen it done with various things ranging from a modified shower curtain enclosing a space where you can consistently control light, diffusion & reflections to doing this inside of a plastic many-gallon tupperware container (which diffuses the light).... great. i needed another project :/

Quilt destruction... are you missing any panels?

Art is at your own risk at my house... here's what might happen if you choose to spread out over a room that you are not actively guarding:

Rogue origami #2

Another origami structure has been added to the orchid in the past week:

Rogue origami

After art night at my house a week or two ago, I found some rogue origami in the orchid on my kitchen table:

Here's what one guest at art night worked on:



Silkscreening! This is something I'd like to learn how to do. At the rate I'm going that will be.... in 2010.

First set of 2008 light switch covers

(I accidentally took not only some rather crooked pictures, but photographed these before sealing them AND before even cutting out the holes for the switch & screws. oops)

What's missing? Opinions, plz.

I have some 28-odd half-finished prints spread out all over my art room. They look more-or-less like the image on the right side of this photo. Now I need opinions from my loyal readers: What would make the image on the RIGHT look complete, wanting for nothing?



The image on the left is a trial print (i guess you might call it a proof) that I think has potential. If I decided to go with a variation of the left side, I would move the snowflakes up a bit and perhaps block out 1 or 2 of them so that the figure isn't obscured... or maybe rotate the snowflakes? Hmmmmm....

You have approximately 20 hours to get your opinions in.

I want to be done printing all of them tomorrow night so that they can dry overnight, I can crop & package them on Thursday, and put them in the mail on Friday.

inky sketches

The odd vaguely aqua color is from a "Souffle pen" that K & I discovered on a recent excursion to the west side of town.... I'm afraid to say it was a pretty disappointing new pen. Not only did it not pouf up nearly as much as implied by the name (or perhaps it lived up to the finicky nature of souffles?), but I ran mine dry in just over a week. Hmmmmmm.