Creative gifts from my mother…
My mother did not think she was creative, but she was.
Techno-geek excitement, three
In Thursday’s mail arrived the latest installment of experiments from the 3-D printing factory. I wasn’t expecting them this soon! I wanted to post about them before I head off for a ten day adventure in Italy. [I know—poor, poor me!] It will be a little while before I can get into the studio with …
Ceramic vessels and jewelry—process, tedium and “fussiness”
I don’t know why it is, but I’ve always been drawn to creative media that have complex processes, with many steps to follow. When in college, I majored in printmaking and ceramics. I remember my first printmaking course—taken over a six week summer term—wherein we learned a new printmaking medium/process each week. And sometimes they …
More 3-D printing, with some image history…
From the time she was around six years old, my daughter was obsessed with drawing hearts. A first she struggled to get one that looked, to her satisfaction, like a Valentine heart. She fretted that they weren’t perfect. She would bring her drawings of hearts to me and say, “How’s this one?” I’d reply that …