Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Seed Pods

Seed Pods

No video today. I was too busy using studio time.

Remember my gathering seed pods to make a rattle? Well, I used them today in class. I scanned them, then used Photoshop to turn the scan into a silhouette of the shapes. I used the printout as a stencil for etching glass with a sandblaster. So I spent the entire class time cutting seed pod shapes out of contact paper and sticking them to the green glass bottle I found. Then I put it in a sandblaster and etched around the shapes to put a pattern on the glass. You'll see how it turned out soon.

Meanwhile, the silhouette image is available on Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Drop me a line if you do something cool with it.

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