PAINT BRUSH HOLDER - STUDIO ORGANISATION PART 3 My new storage trolley and the letter tray punch storage have been exciting additions to the studio, and the disappearance of Chaos Corner has been a delight, but the final part of this series has been the most creative and exciting for me - making…
PUNCH STORAGE - STUDIO REORGANISING PART 2 Today the new letter rack unit arrived from Ikea. I had seen this recommended online for storing punches and thought it would be ideal for my studio. It was simple to assemble, with all the framework clicking together without the need for screws. The whole construction…
CHAOS IN THE CORNER - STUDIO REORGANISING PART 1 I had to call a halt on my album project temporarily, to sort out some of the chaos in the studio. I managed to tidy the far side of the room which had been a dumping ground for months and it's nice to see…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT, AND PRINTER NEWS Some more pages for my masterboard book, this time using images from the Voynich Manuscript, but first, I was unhappy with one of my earlier pages: This was the one with the financial documents and Payne's grey water. It looked messy and dull and I…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - INKED KITCHEN PAPER Another stash-busting project! Cleaning up operations When I work with inks and paints, I don't like washing left-over media down the sink. For paints I usually wipe off the brushes onto various scratch papers which mature nicely with time and make good collage fodder or backgrounds for…
ALL MY GOLDS - AN UPDATE In my previous post on this subject, I thought I'd remembered all the golds I have in the studio, but there were several that I forgot. In this post I hope to remedy the situation, and this time I hope I haven't forgotten any! This is page…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - SCRAP BUSTING PROJECT After quite a lot of precise, detailed work recently, I felt the need to splurge a bit, and have a session splashing about in the studio and getting inky and making a general mess (needing to mop the floor afterwards!). Tea and coffee-dyeing, inking, stamping, stencilling... all…
ALL MY GOLDS Sorry, Mr. Shakespeare - "All that glisters IS gold" - at least in Shoshi's book! A friend recently asked me about what gold I like to use in my art, and rather than just replying, I thought I'd do a post about it because it might be of interest or…
UV RESIN - SMALL CIRCULAR DIGITALS Shoshi is resinating with a new art form! I've done a bit of UV resin work with a small starter kit, but the lamp proved rather inadequate. I have now bought a new one which is much better. Some time ago I downloaded some digitals from Dragana…
UV RESIN - NEW UV LAMP I have recently taken up UV resin work, in order to make small embellishments for my mixed media projects. I began with an inexpensive starter kit which included a small UV lamp. This proved to be pretty weedy and it took ages to cure anything, so I…
