Should you really be here?
If you are here to read the posts on this blog, I feel that I must warn you that there is little of any value here. Get off your computer, or your phone, or your tablet, and go see something real, something beautiful, something that fills you with wonder. Go stand a while in nature and feel the way in which it delights your every sense.
No, no, not a dance, I have something far less exciting in mind. Let’s make a jig to hold the wood block stamp. After completing the stamp, the next challenge was to devise a jig to place the stamp in the correct position for printing. So, I created a wood frame to hold both the…
For some time now, I’ve been chipping away at a block of wood. The goal has been to create a wood block stamp of an African themed design that I created a while back. While carving away each little sliver of wood, I have questioned whether this mode of creation is worth the time. It…
Picasso remarked, “good artists borrow, great artists steal.” Guided by such wisdom, I have stolen the techniques of the National Park Service (NPS) and applied them to this reproduction of their Glacier National Park map. The following is the original NPS map.
I believe that among the greatest challenges we face are the choices we must make as we build a material life around ourselves. Society, particularly western society, would like us all to believe that more is better. I think of Malcolm Forbes’ quote, “he who dies with the most toys wins,” and I wonder how…
What do you do when you need to transport a very large sheet of paper than cannot be rolled, folded, or crumpled? Option one, give up, go to a bar and enjoy a glass Laphroaig and a warm slice of chocolate lava cake. Option two, whip together a good old fashion whatchamacallit and then carry…
So, let’s just say you were batty enough to spend two years of your life drawing an elephant. And then you had that drawing framed. And then you realized it’s enormous and it weighs a ton and you have no idea how to hang it. What do you do? I say, we’ll make a stand.
We’re the same type of weird if you have ever looked at an old pump handle and thought to yourself, “that would make a great back post for a stool.”
Need to transport a large work of art? Other dollies just won’t cut it? Then enjoy the extravagance of the Dali! It rolls, and it rolls, and well, I guess that’s about all it does, but heck, it sure does roll nice.
This ugly duckling of a chair will never be a swan, but it’s worth its weight in raspberries – it made the process of creating a very large drawing of an elephant much easier.
Drawing for Change 