The guy climbing the ice fall is leaving on the ferry tonight. He's going to be gone until March on his annual trip to Washington and Hawaii. I'm trying not to miss him already. I'm going to use the time to be as creative as possible, make bracelets, make felt, make screen prints. We have an interesting relationship: two very independent loners hanging out together pretending it's all casual and stuff. 
Today's screen print is "raygun" I have some flowers and scrolly girly stuff on the same screen right now but I just wanted to do the raygun! A touch of the steampunk.Each of these runs involves learning something new... sharpie drawing on acetate is not as good as actual inkjet printing. The inkjet is more opaque and makes a better photo stencil. The photo emulsion sheets sold with the Yudu printer are lame and expensive. The sheets sold by Dharma for less than half the price are mailed in a stiff/flat package and are much better at adhering to the screen. Last of all: the amount of ink on the screen needs to be proportional to the size of the part of the image you're printing...as in you don't need so much for the skinny part of the ray gun as you need for the grip end. (yeah, I know...Keen sense of the obvious)
4 comments:
Okay WOW! climbing that ice wall it just awesome! That is something I'd only be able to dream about
They raygun is wonderful! I really like that. I'm wondering what it is going to finally end up as...hint, hint
The ray gun is on a couple of t-shirts, what size do you wear? It's all about practice right now, but it's coming together fast enough that it's fun. I combined the ray gun practice bits with some funky floral/paisley stuff today so it looks like the gun shoots flowers.
okay...ice climbing cool! great pic!but the VW Bus...UBER COOL!! good way to pass the time creating!! good things to come...can't wait! Raygun shooting flowers...like the twist!! Will be watching for more wonderments!! just think how many there will be by March! WOOT! will stay tuned!!
I've seen the infomercial on the Yudu...looked very interesting...but something I could so make a mess with! LOL! Crows!! do crows!! let me know when you're on etsy :o)
Let me know when you do etsy. I'd love one of those ray gun shirts. For Christmas this year I did all robots for Chris. He loved it all. BTW...me, I wear the big girl XL now. Menopause have made the "girls" really really droopE.
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