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I subscribe to the SGAA Quarterly Collection of Richard Gross Photography Articles, and Lapidary Journal and Photoshop Users. The rest, I read at Borders Books and Tapes: Ornament, Ceramic Monthly, Art in America, Tattoo, Airbrush, Vogue, Metalsmith, anything else that isn't too embarrassing. The 'M...

clip I hope that I will always be as open to challanges as I was to this one. Well put. Most of my work is done pretty much in the grand tradition of the particular craft I work in, so its easy to relate-to, easy to understand, and easy to criticize. The value system is fairly clearly established f...

clip Technique has staying power through experience and patterns done over and over again, but through these patterns we change and become something more and different than technique. May I add to this: the evolution of craft technique through practice and passing-along from teacher to student over...

[quote="Brock] clip from Ron When we attempt to narrow our "experiences" into phrases and descriptions, we have already lost a piece of that experience as we are putting parameters on it in order to explain it to others. I offer this up as food for thought and support the idea that &q...

I like complicated artwork with an agenda, a narrative, themes and motifs and symbolism and tricks and puns and ambiguity. I like it just as much as the next guy. But I dislike the notion that there's something lesser about work that doesn't have all that, and something lesser about a craftsperson w...

Whats your packing material? The one you shlep from show to show spends a lot of time in packing material. could the hawaii one have spent longer than usual packed as well? just brainstorming

clip- it works! J There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge...

Johnson Paint in Ma. had them in their old print catalog. I don't see them on their website. But they're worth checking out just for all their cool faux painting brushes.

http://www.johnsonpaint.com

Just finished first raking experience.....gr8 results...except lost about 1/3 of the total piece because it shifted down off the shelf when I went into rake the second time...(Got beautiful blobs because of this)..I think there was too much resistance....but I salvaged 2/3 and happy EXCEPT for a sm...

Good heavens! I have mullers and palette knives that are decades old and don't have that kind of wear.... it doesn't take much elbow grease to grind pigment in water! It takes time and patience. :wink: Hmmph. Yeah, well, you probably grind pigment like wuss with your pinky out. I wield my palette k...

When I saw mention of glass mullers, I thought it meant "mullers for glass", but now I see they are mullers MADE of glass. The ones on the link I followed said they were made for grinding pigments. Do these really hold up grinding glass, which I would presume is harder than most pigments?...

Alecia Helton wrote:For those of us who didn't make it to WGW, what is a muller?

Thanks,
Alecia

You can find them at the flea markets pretty easily here in Ohio. The guys who wear them usually have sleeveless T-shirts and a big belt buckle. Wait, maybe I'm confusing the word with something else. Never mind.

draftsman's linoleum, from Dick Blick. comes in gray/white or green/white, various sizes. i love it. got a big piece of it on one of the kitchen counter where the Max grinder is, so the mess doesn't foul up the grout on the counter. I have that draftsman linoleum on my painting table too. Good stuf...

Thanks db -- I think I may give the airbrushing a try. I've seen references to airbrushing the Reusche paints using the water miscable medium, so I'll look into that. I suppose I can create stencils from the same graphics programs I use for the screen stencil creation. -- Cathy I love to airbrush, ...

I've had some recent small successes screen printing on glass with the Reusche paints. I think implied in the discussion is that this is for the purpose of creating opaque tracing lines. I think of silkscreen as being better suited to solid area figure. It can certainly achieve lines of nearly any ...

clip I've used various grades of plastilene, but if I recall correctly, it didn't come out of the plaster as cleanly as the terra cotta. Thoughts? clip I've sculpted relief stuff on glass sheet with plasticene. THen I smoothed it with a hair dryer to get it glossy. THen cast it on the glass plate u...

Has anyone tried the Chroma range of paints, as used in Bettina Eberle's book on kiln fired glass? The range includes 'interference paints' and 'crystal ice'. I'm planning to order some from Switzerland (where I assume it is made) - and as it will take a few months to be delivered I plan to order a...

clip: I am using mixed media so to speak with Paradise Paints, mica, wire... It is a lovely combination of materials, and they look good, yet the pieces aren't good enough. I am missing something and can't seem to get there from here. This is where I am stuck. clip I'll take a guess from the above ...

DB The piece looks cool. Photography is nearly impossible on a window like this. I'd like to pose some questions about the design. Does the Bullseye glass look dead juxtaposed with the Lamberts? If so, might the BE look better as an outer border, kind of like a picture frame matt? It is hard to tel...

quill wrote:Very cool! How big is this?

thanky...its 24" square