Diversity in Creativity

I was all over the map this week with projects. I put together my TruArt when I got to the studio on Monday. It comes with an instruction booklet that shows how to calibrate the volts on the machine. The unit was set to only 5 volts at the lowest setting and it needs to be at 20. With this unit one can actually control the voltage. The other one would get hot – or not. Here are a couple test projects that burnt like butter, “Fly Me to the Moon” and a couple of spoons.

Monday I sat with my alcohol inks and painted a blue jellyfish.

The studio acquired an Xtool D1 Pro laser cutter and engraver and I spent quite some time downloading the software LightBurn and connecting it to my Mac book so we can use the unit for engraving and cutting wood for my projects. Oh the future possibilities.

I received an order for some Texsolv cording to replace the hard plastic warp stick ties on my rigid heddle loom to keep my yarn from fraying while warping and a varident heddle package from Eugene Textile Center in Oregon. After replacing the ties I am going to attempt a new project: mug rugs. 

And, on Friday, I got out my acrylic paints and painted Desert Sun. 16×20 canvas.

Oh, I forgot to mention our Ventura Rocketeers’ rocket launch on Saturday morning.

Procrastination, Pyrography and Back to Alcohol Ink 🪼

It was the procrastinating tax payer’s week📄. Monday, after figuring out income/expense data for the Studio, I went upstairs and created this piece which is kinda of how I was feeling. I love “Little Shop of Horrors” and this is another version of Audrey II

Steve loves exploring the universe with Kerbal. I decided to burn his favorite kerbal, Valentina Kerman for him to keep by his computer in the man cave. Half-way through this burn, my cheap Amazon unit decided to go cold on one pen. The other side still worked but the temperature adjustment was also going south. Back to the research board and I discovered this little company out of Texas, TruArt and they sent me a very cool unit in only 2 days! Can’t wait to try it out on Monday. Here’s Valentina:

Friday, the studio was warm downstairs and I got to paint and video a jellyfish in alcohol ink.

A Peek at my pastels

🌺 Colorful alcohol ink Painting

I haven’t painted with inks for a while but I have painted a few over the last couple years. I am also learning to use Da Vinci for editing. Here is a little video showing my favorite pieces.

Burning on 🔥

I finished the last of my Rock Stars series with Prince and Shakira.

Here is a video of the beginning of my pyrography journey. 

Plans for this coming week is to burn a greeting card in wood.