EXPERIMENTS WITH UV RESIN AND SOME TINY CHARMS I had another session in the studio today, experimenting further with my new UV resin kit. Tiny charms I got out my "Rings, Shapes etc." box and had a rummage. This small box contains all kinds of rings - curtain rings, split rings, openable rings...…
WORKING WITH UV RESIN I am following Crafty with Toni, one of my favourite YouTube artists. She recently posted a video about UV resin. I have steered clear of resin until now as I thought it would be too much hassle, mixing the two parts, and expecting to have to buy a lot…
THE VIDEO SETUP IN MY STUDIO My friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum asked me today what video setup I had in my studio. Rather than trying to answer her in the chat on the forum, I decided to do a separate post on this, because it might be of interest to others…
EMBELLISHED SKETCHBOOK To go with the Box of Delights that I made for my friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, I made a small sketchbook. I have a few sheets left from an A3 pad of Daler Rowney hot-pressed watercolour paper. This is pretty heavy-weight and I've been using it for my detailed…
A BOX OF DELIGHTS Recently I decided to make a gift for my artist friend Caroline on the ArtKula forum, who continually inspires me with her fabulous art, her encouragement and her wonderful sense of humour and fun. I had several tiny gifts I wanted to send her, which were trivial and amusing…
COMPUTER NEWS - LINUX ZORIN OS ON SECOND LENOVO THINKPAD I had a dig around on Ebay and found loads of ThinkPads, and found one almost identical in specs to my own but a slightly later model, and cheaper than what I paid for mine. I bought it for my hubby, and it…
COMPUTER NEWS - ACER UPDATE Since my last post, there have been further developments. Not booting into Linux The USB drive with the Linux installation on it functioned perfectly and I was able to install Linux Zorin on my hubby's Acer laptop. However, the computer would not boot into Zorin whatever I tried.…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER - MAKING USE OF PACKAGING I recently searched online for some black striped washi tape which I have seen several people using, and which seems quite hard to find. Eventually I came across an online shop called Curiouser and Curiouser - the name itself was enough to make me want…
COMPUTER NEWS - FURTHER LINUX ADVENTURES I hesitated over the title of this post and eventually decided upon "Adventures" rather than "Problems" - one must keep a positive attitude! For a while since Richard's visit (see this post), everything was running smoothly with the new system. The Lenovo ThinkPad 14-in laptop running Linux…
ISLAMIC ART ALBUM - BEGINNING SOME GEOMETRIC PATTERNS I have not yet completed the first signature of this album, which contains designs in the Arabesque style, but needed a change of mood for a while. I therefore began the second signature, which will contain geometric designs. For some time I have been following…
