Last Work Day

Episode 22, in which Cheryl creates the Osama Bin Laden Peekaboo Metronome.

This is our last full work day. Next Tuesday, we will show our finished pieces and make selections for what goes in the First Friday art show at PC Downtown.

Spin It and Run

Episode 10, in which Cheryl tells Joe Willie Smith to spin it and run.

I swear, I love how much I get to play in this class, and that my teacher is free to play, too. Spending my semester this way is one of my better decisions.

Have a look at what my fellow students worked on today:

• a ... propeller ... thing
• a mask
• a kinetic mobile
• a metal sculpture

I did more sandblasting today. Specifically, I blasted some ugly green paint off of a wood frame purchased for under $1 at the As Is Yard. The sandblasting revealed the grain of the wood nicely. Joe Willie also sliced a piece of oak for me, and it's gorgeous.

Unfortunately, while I'm doing my own work I forget to yank out the video camera. I'll try to do better next week and show you how my own work is coming along.

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.