From the monthly archives:

January 2008

Trouble with Scanner

24 January 2008

The great photo dig­i­tiz­ing project has hit a snag. I started work­ing on “fix­ing up” the pho­tos that I had scanned in last week. First up was this pic­ture of Jim’s par­ents Bill and Betty on their wed­ding day. (Too cute, no?) A care­ful look at the orig­i­nal file (all 1040x768of it) revealed a nasty yel­low stripe […]

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TGIF (Thank God It’s Finished)">TGIF (Thank God It’s Finished)

22 January 2008

The rooms of the House of Myth­i­cal Crea­tures are all con­nected up. I fin­ished just as it was get­ting too dark to work. Detailed pic­tures in a day or two. edited 25.june.2008 to cor­rect image links

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Family Photographs — It’s All Grist for the Mill

22 January 2008

I’ve been col­lect­ing up the old photo albums and sort­ing the pic­tures. There are a num­ber that I’d like to use in the col­lages. But of course I don’t want to glue up my only copy of great-grandmother’s por­trait so… It’s time to get scan­ning. I’ll leave the has­sles of get­ting an elderly scan­ner to […]

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Is This Really How You Make Art?

17 January 2008

Col­laged paper can get rather thick and lumpy. Get­ting the pan­els stuck down to the mat board took some doing. So the House of Myth­i­cal Crea­tures pan­els are now mounted on mat board and the back­ers are made and mounted. It’s all sit­ting in the press get­ting flat. Tomor­row I’ll fin­ish up the hinges and title […]

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Yellow Walls

17 January 2008

The painters are done and I have reclaimed my space. The move out and back into the stu­dio was almost pain­less. Prob­a­bly because I had recently reor­ga­nized all the crap and there had not been much time for cruft to accu­mu­late. My office is another story. edited 25.june.2008 to cor­rect image links

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Passing Time Outside of the Studio

2 January 2008

The painters arrive tomor­row to fin­ish the great house paint­ing project. They will be paint­ing my office, the DH’s office, and my stu­dio. I am work­ing out of a lit­tle rolling cart on the kitchen counter. Severely lim­ited in terms of mate­ri­als and tools. The House of Myth­i­cal Crea­tures is on hold for the week. It’s […]

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