We used microscope slides, alcohol inks, the Encore metallic ink pad, rubber stamps and Utee for Carmi's demo. It was fun and some of the ladies made some astounding slides.
I only ended up with one completed slide. I dipped it in gold UTEE because I wanted to try dipping. Its trickier than it looks. I plan to redo it with platinium. I'm just not a gold girl.
For the past month my 3x3 metal etching has been going everywhere with me. It even went out west with me, I tossed it in my luggage, crossed my fingers and hoped it would arrive with me.
I would take it out on the subway and stare at it thinking, "What the heck am I going to do with this?"
I finally decided to do something I though I never ever do. I put it in an altered book.
I had a grand delusion that I would actually finish the whole book before the meeting too.
Hahahahahahahaha!!!
yeah, no.
It's still very much a WIP. I plan to add UTEE to the front cover, which meant that I couldn't do the inside cover. (I want to use both sides of the metal piece) I plan to use a transparency and I'm pretty sure it won't stand up to the heat.
The assignments were unveiled at the end. I got to go first (bless you Carmi!).Many of the assignments were a al deMeng. Which was very cool. The thing I regret most about not attending his class is learning how he mixes paint.
I had my camera but no memory card. I hope Carmi doesn't mind that I 'borrowed' her photo.
1 comment:
YOU DID GREAT! Your book was wonderful -- I didn't actually get to look at it closely -- because everything went around the table and then onto the picture area before it got to me! I just realized that when I looked at the photo. Darn.
That UTEE dripping was tricky -- mine's all lumpy. I'm not so sold on the gold either-- I'd like sparkly!!! I'm going to try Diamond glaze and then sprinkle on glitter....
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