Category: Not Pottery

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September 2024 Newsletter

The Newsletter for September is out! (I know, I’m extremely inconsistent in my newslettering, I’m endeavoring to improve!)  Are you not subscribed? Don’t worry, I absolutely won’t spam your inbox, and I do my best to respect people’s email preferences. Check out this month’s newsletter here, and click the subscribe button if you’d like more!

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Faxperiments

I’ve been quiet online, mostly because I’ve been playing with the latest tool in my toolbox, a fax machine! No, I’m not passing along chain letters and bad jokes, but rather using the thermal printer component of the machine for creating stencils from Risograph masters. This year I already tried purchasing a cheap thermal printer, and subsequently discovered it is utterly inadequate for my needs; it was chucked back to the Amazon Overlords the same day. After a few months of daily checking for fax machines in my area, I managed to snag one for $10. Granted, it’s not as compact and store-able as the portable thermal printers, but thus far it has spit out a perfect stencil every time. It doesn’t rely on battery/USB-C power nor do I have to finesse inconsistent Chinese printing software to get it to do my bidding.

I’m almost finished with an upcoming video about experimenting with hectographs, of all things. Hopefully it’ll be done soon!

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Video: Jellygraph for Fun!

Just a short video about makin’ art without much planning or forethought using a jellygraph! (Also known as a jelly plate, hectograph, or jelly pad.) Why should you make art just for fun? Because it’s a productive use of your time! Haha!

I threw a couple of my monoprints from the jellygraph sessions into my shop if you’re interested~

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Major Arcana: DONE

Big news today: I have finished the Major Arcana for the Tarot deck I have been working on! That’s 21 cards into my 78 card journey. I’ve been doing a lot of background work prepping for doing the pip cards: making patterns, color swatches, studying card history and meanings.

This has been an amazing project thus far: the sheer amount of art history alone crammed into these decks is incredible. Frankly, it’s been more fun for me to study the card history than to do actual practice readings! In any event, while hard to share my journey (Livestream me reading and taking notes? No thanks haha) I do broadcast live on YouTube every Tuesday while I’m drawing each card. I can’t wait to see what the next cards bring!