Patreon shipping day at Serendib House — Stephanie Bailey, Darius Vinesar, and Emmanuel Henderson are here to help me pack up and ship out the treat boxes. My PLAN had been to finish these last week, before the semester started, but I didn’t quite make it, so this week has been somewhat more harried than […]
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Last little resin project for this set of Patreon boxes, I think — tiny bottles of fairy dust. They’ll go in the top two tiers. Funfun.
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Okay, I’m much happier with the metallics for this application — notebook covers! It has a subtle texture, looking almost like liquid metal, and then you can swirl glitter through it and place inclusions. Fun. Next art show I do, I think there will be some resin-cover space notebooks in addition to the resin space
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Finishing up items for the Patreon boxes. I tried something new here — adding metallics to resin for jewelry. I’m not sure I love the result, to be honest — it still feels like plastic, unsurprisingly, which bothers me. But it does look reasonably cute on? So I guess I’ll send them to the top
New fabric arrived from Spoonflower, and I *love* how it came out! Makes me super-happy — it’s so satisfying (and so rare) when a piece of art actually comes out the way you intended. I printed these colorways in an outdoor fabric; I’m going to sew these up into cushions for our backyard seating area.
New soap for the upper tiers of the Patreon boxes — I wanted to do a mushroom soap, to go along with the fairies theme, and I was both surprised and pleased to find that the ‘dirt’ scent I found actually smells like dirt. So weird. This blend is dirt / night air / rain
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Trying something new — I usually do my digital art with a pretty clean pencil or pen line, but Spoonflower’s challenge for the week is ‘granny squares,’ and they said, “we invite you to embrace the colorful stitches, fluffy fibers and geometric layout of this nostalgic craft.” Which made me wonder if I could represent
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The kids took a class this summer at the new clay studio up the street, ViaClay (how much do I love that there’s a clay studio in walking distance from us?), and they both really enjoyed it. Kavi asked for more clay classes, so we’re going to try to make that happen once she gets
Playing around with color — it’s sort of funny because these were jasmine flowers, but I decided I wanted to try it with a white background, so then, of course, the flowers had to go colorful…
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A lot of what I’m sewing these days goes in the Patreon boxes, but this set, I’m keeping for myself. I saw these charming Misha Zadeh melamine plates at a garden store a few years ago, and I picked them up thinking they’d be perfect for lunch with friends in the garden. I had a
