I love anything with and Indian design. So when I spotted these hand carved wood blocks, I had to buy them. I have quite a collection. They are created for making batiks, but I love to use them in my artwork. Especially great for clay and either making tiles or textures in the clay. And they wash up beautifully too. They are hand carved with Indian inspired motifs and geometric shapes, they are amazing. Next I am going to try them for printmaking. How can you pass up beautiful woodcuts!
While I was in Brooklyn I picked up this old 1950′s Cub Printer. Every facet of this printer is awesome, from the small rubber letters, to the simple type work on the box and manual. I can’t wait to actually test this little machine and make something retro. Stay tuned for the results!
On a little trip to Anthropologie I saw some great hoop earrings for $45. I decided to make a pair of my own after finding a hammered silver hoop belt with similar size hoops at the local thrift store. Beautiful!
Last week I decided to a little experimenting with printing. Using spray paint, speedball and screen-printing ink I came up with some interesting projects. Here is a look at one of them… a cotton ribbon that I printed, using a potato block print, sponge stamps and lino block print. Very cool!
If you have old Holiday cards that you’ve been collecting… or you’re just into recycling, please think of donating them to I Love Making Stuff for our upcoming workshop or for those in the future.
Recycle | Reuse | Recreate
Please contact Peter@ilovemakingstuff.com if you would like to donate and we’ll arrange for a pick-up!
Stay tuned for all the beautiful cards we will be posting.
For the last three weekends I have been learning the craft of Mono printing. The craft is wonderful and full of surprises. Here are some samples of the art that I created in the class.
What you get: Stencils, paper and instruction.
The hottest crafting topic seems to be Screen Printing! A combo of decorative painting, pop-art, and graffiti. So we created this workshop to meet the demand.
We hope you can join us for this four hour class. You will learn how to build the screen, cut paper templates, and learn to screen print — the whole shabang!
You will walk away with a set of hand-made pop-up cards (and/or) a poster ready for framing, and a skill that can be used over and over for many different projects.
(If you have fun paper you want to print on or experiment with, an Xacto knife and drawing tools, feel free to bring them, even if you don’t want to share).
Get ready for some goopy fun!
Make sure to wear clothes that you can get messy in!
BTW We’ll let you know where to get all the materials you need to do this at home so you can build your own screens and print to your hearts content.
Friday October 22nd, 2010
11am-3pm
Cost: $25, plus $5 Materials
In Encinitas
Taught by: The staff of I Love Making Stuff
Sign up today at: www.ilovemakingstuff.com
I use Paisley in my design work and have collected some nice fabrics covered in it over the years… I found this remnant at a thrift store recently and it will come in extra handy on the new bag designs I am working on! Be on the look-out!
We are so excited for our upcoming show this Saturday. Here are some more details. See you there!
Mom would be so proud because we love our veggies. We also love to screen print… so we screen printed VEGGIES! Fun in a kitchen or on a nursery wall or in a garden room.. ANYWHERE! You can either buy them online, or get them at our upcoming show!
PSST- If you love these and want to make your own, take our screen printing class! Next up, fruit!
