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Artisan - handcrafting treasures, trinkets, and toys... enameling, metalwork, fibercraft, sewing, blockprinting, 1:12 scale miniatures, scribal and book arts. "... time is a dressmaker, specialising in alterations" - Faith Baldwin
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New prints for the art exchange, this time in a springtime violet color. I didn't want to wait days for the ink to cure, so laid them on parchment paper and ran them through the convection oven for several hours on extra low. The warm dry moving air helped the linseed oil dry out overnight.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

If you're in desperate need of a comfort read, this is the absolute best. Sapient swords with opinions, housekeepers with questions, non-binary holy lawyers, a very patient ox, and a sweet romance. If you wish more cozy fantasy cared about worldbuilding and supply chains, here you go!

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Concerned that counterchanged dark/light would make the text unreadable, so made a more detailed iteration of my sketch to test. Much to my pleasure (and checked with various other folks as well) the words are easy to decipher; I can carve the block with confidence in the resulting print.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

First design sketch for a fourth block print in my series "Making Art For A Change". Series began in 2020; is a three way exchange: Patron donates to worthy cause - I send an original print - Worthy cause gets more donation than I could do alone. We each do what we can...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Spun cotton hearts almost completed. All that remains before I add these to future Advent Swap treats is to finish adding metallic trim to the rest of them, and glue an eye pin to the top, to hold a loop of cord for an ornament hanger.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Today my bike broke. Made a horrible sound and wheels stopped. The rear derailleur body was broken into two pieces and part of it was jammed into the rear wheel! I managed to get it apart from the wheel, otherwise I'd have had to just leave the bike there abandoned, as the wheel would not turn.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

2nd layer of spun cotton applied to the heart ornaments, which are destined to become part of my contribution to the Advent Of A Better Year swap this December. This will be the third year, Not going to give up on sharing beauty and whimsy with the world.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Three 1" sq handpainted valentines and matching envelopes made from laminated origami paper. For the tiny folk that live with Kestrel in Olympia, from the tiny folks that live here with me ..

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Giveaway ends tomorrow, check it out and like, repost, and follow to participate 🎉 #printmaking #linocut #catart

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

What a difference over-dyeing makes...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Milliput works wonderfully well as a repair material! The replacement broach handles turned out great. They hardened overnight, as did the tiny scrap of Milliput that was used to repair a broken ceramic horse earring (which will be repainted matte black to match the other half of the pair)

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

This weekends project: a pot lid rack on the door between the kitchen and the workroom, pure good fortune that the space was just right for the four pot lids. All made from bits and bobs of wood and hardware around the house. I'm not a woodworker, but it turned out tidy and functional.

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Collecting suggestions for a list of "Favorite Invertebrates", some of which will become linocut portraits in a miniature book. (My previous book, 1"sq, was "Textile Livestock")

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

trying to decide between two themes for my next series of miniature linocuts for a new tiny book: either "lunar year animals", or "favorite invertebrates"...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Given forecast below freezing nighttime weather for the next week or so, it seemed wise to get the young Bosc pear tree actually planted. Fortunately, the ground is not yet frozen, and well softened by the rains. Now baby tree will hopefully survive the freeze, and begin adapting to its new home .

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

My current workbench project, a very small elaborate heraldic brooch:

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

"proficere lente sed proficere" = incremental progress is still progress... this is my SCA motto, and indeed, one of the touchstones I live by, in many of the various modalities

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments