Saturday, November 7, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
All the Hot, Scary Girls: Recent Drawings by Jenny Cole
Our college buddy Jenny Cole has been doing hot, scary drawings of all the hot, scary girls. Unfortunately most of her images are behind Facebook's walled garden, but I've been given permission to post some of them here. Enjoy.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Homemade Inks
DISD has a new art curriculum which is divided up thematically. The first theme is Labor and Craftsmanship, so I've been having my kids "labor" and make their own ink out of natural materials. The park directly behind the school has several pecan trees and exactly one walnut tree (thanks for finding it, 2nd period), and I had a baggie full of oak galls from live oak trees on Tom Hicks property where I used to work. We crushed up the various nuts and galls, boiled them to to extract the color, and then boiled down what was basically dye-stock until it was dark enough to use as ink. The oak gall ink, since it's a weak tannic acid solution, doesn't need any treatment to keep from fermenting, but I added salt and vinegar to the pecan and walnut so they wouldn't turn into a gross smelling wine. We have three different shades of brown. It would be nice to grow some indigo and get a decent blue.
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