Weekend: relax reader / Fin de semana: relax lector (ilustración de Daryl Zang)
rgrjnr: benhaikala: What do words like “craft” and “skill” mean in 2011? That is one of the questions that the exhibition ‘Power of Making’ seeks to answer. This film delves into the working lives of four makers: shoe designer Marloes ten Bhömer, crochetdermist Shauna Richardson, artist, curator and glass designer Matt Durran and flute-maker Stephen Wessel. It uncovers processes of thought and making that are as fascinating, complex and contemporary as the exhibition itself.
Wanderlust Shadowbox DIY via Pistol Daisy
These fingerprint cut-outs were a part of my Christmas gift to Bill this year. I was inspired by Arielle’s beautiful fingerprint text art, but decided to put a different spin on it.
I took stamps of both mine and Bill’s thumbs, assuring him I wasn’t stealing his identity and telling him nothing more. I then took the prints to Staples and had their in-house print team enlarge them to about 12 inches in height. If you have access to a quality scanner/printer you can do this on your own, unfortunately, I no longer do. After scanning and enlarging, the fingerprints were printed on 11x17 card stock. Using an X-Acto blade, I cut out each of the print lines, essentially creating a fingerprint stencil. This was clearly the most difficult task and must be done slowly to prevent making cuts too close to one another. After the cut-outs were complete, I turned to Flickr to find backgrounds for both our prints (his, mine). I found matching 11x14 frames at the local Salvation Army and painted them a matte slate gray. My last step was to crop everything down to 11x14 and frame it out!
I have to say, this is my favorite thing I’ve made in a long, long time and I can’t wait to get them on the walls.
DIY Woven Jersey Sweatshirt. So much easier than it looks. Tutorial from The Forge here.
DIY Twelve Watercolor Techniques for Artwork. Love this site. For the eleven other techniques go to The all-new adventures of Coreymarie here.
Sebastien Preschoux - Color Theory, 2009