Crafty Litsters show your work!

[the captians wench]

Ohhhhh so much potential fun! Can't wait to see what develops!

Yay! That is so awesome. Congrats.

Congrats! I trust there's an alarming codpiece in there somewhere.

I am SO excited about this. I have some concept drawings but I am not a sketch artist so I don't like to post those. As things come together I'll be taking lots of pictures.

 

[desertslave]

I spent a big part of the afternoon cleaning beads. This is not my favorite job, especially when the battery for my Dremel dies after only 2 beads. Anyway, here's this month's work, more or less.

 

[Raven6766]

I spent a big part of the afternoon cleaning beads. This is not my favorite job, especially when the battery for my Dremel dies after only 2 beads. Anyway, here's this month's work, more or less.

Very Nice!!! I used to make jewelry and I like beads still.

 

[markFL]

Nice work DS!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I spent a big part of the afternoon cleaning beads. This is not my favorite job, especially when the battery for my Dremel dies after only 2 beads. Anyway, here's this month's work, more or less.

I love picking up a pile of glass beads like this and letting them drop, gently, through my fingers. One of my favourite clinking noises! So satisfying! These look particularly juicy

 

[desertslave]

I love picking up a pile of glass beads like this and letting them drop, gently, through my fingers. One of my favourite clinking noises! So satisfying! These look particularly juicy

These will get a somewhat vigorous agitate & drop test, just to make sure that surface elements are fully attached. Most of them are my quarterly donation to a fabulous group for children with cancer, Beads of Courage. They get all of my color exercises and oddballs, plus a few dozen "just for the kids" beads.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[markFL]

new stuff

Here are a couple of photos of a piece I'm working on. This is a cow horn which has been made into a container to hold blackpowder for muzzle loaders...a powderhorn. As such, it has a compound curve; the horn is "round", it tapers and it also curves. The result is that you cannot photograph the whole image at once.

I did this piece working from a painting by H David Wright called "The American Rifleman" which he graciously gave me the rights to reproduce. It was probably the most difficult image I've ever attempted and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out (his eyes aren't exactly the same as the painting ).

If you want to see more of my work pm me and I'll send you my website link. Thanks for looking.

 

[desertslave]

Mark, that is amazing work!

 

[cfuhrer]

Mark, that is amazing work!

I second.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I second.

It's probably unanimous
Not just the subject, but I also love the border. So beautiful!!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

What is a roller blind?
And of course we always want to see everything...

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

It's a great shelf! Very nice
Love those paint colours! Dead salmon? Interesting... I guess the paint world needed a bit of shaking up. Shaking up.. get it? A paint joke

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[desertslave]

I love that yellow! I would cheerfully paint our house that color, if we didn't have an annoying HOA that would fine us for years to come. Buzzkillers.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[desertslave]

Something we are allowed to choose totally without restriction is the colour for our render and lime render! . (. Our guttering and down pipes have to be black, but I negotiated a grey, from the posh paint company colour chart...but a cheaper company do exactly the same colour, better for metal in our experience, and our guttering all has to be cast iron. . Grey and yellow I think will look super. It's getting the right yellow; too pale is insipid, and too Tuscan looks like dirty, wet sand on a dull day in the cold light here. I've tried things that look great under the 'natural ' light in the stores, but when I come home they look like old custard, or fresh mustard. I want something earthily, mellifluously jaunty but not hair raising.

Why not ask for some sample cans, paint up a few boards with large swatches, and sit them outside a window you use often, for a week or so? See which one really grows on you in mostly the same environment.

 

[desertslave]

Our energy plan changes at the end of this month, and our temps are climbing as usual. I'm suddenly frantic to be at the torch (after months of perfect-weather doldrums, of course). Hoping for some bingeing the next ten days, starting this afternoon.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Cumference]

Tentacle

A silicone rubber tentacle.

Not for any deviant purpose, just playing with the material:

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Cumference]

It certainly has possibilities!

I have used silicone before for making molds when casting.

But this stuff can be used like Plasticine to make flexible objects.
It is very low cost, consisting of silicone caulk and corn starch. Some people call it Oogoo.