Yearly Archives: 2013
if epiphany would sound a little less pretentious …
This is some oooold wallpaper that I found in a tiny corridor in an abadoned factory building somewhere in Vienna. Isn’t it great?
In the middle of gathering my stuff for a little weekend getaway, I noticed how much of the things I was packing were handmade by me. And I couldn’t help but stop for a moment and smile.
When I was just 15 or 16 years old I started admiring crafters, sewists, makers.
I really wanted to be one of those people that would naturally sew a new pair of pants rather than go to the mall and get everything there. And just now I realized that I somehow became that person.
It seems that, somehow, one can become quite a lot of things by just stubbornly wishing for them to become reality.
city in progress
The very beginning …
I accidentally started to paint a city in photoshop.
The file was created on monday afternoon and have been playing with
it pretty much nonstop since then. My eyes are starting to pixelate everything I see ;)
… and a section of the canvas after about 35 hours of work.
neverending notebook
This is one of those projects that take forever to get done because there are just so many little things required to finish it.
I vectorized some planes and ships in january. Of 2011. Then I wanted to make stamps out of them, but couldn’t find the right carving blocks anywhere. At some point, I made the notebook, but left the block without cover for a few months, because I didn’t have any fabric that felt just right and I had no plane stamps yet.
Somehow, a cover happened when I stumbled across that fun checkered print, but then I forgot about the notebook for another year.
Last month I found the now-acquired-and-already-forgotten carving blocks in my printing box and made a few plane stamps – And yesterday I finished the book.
I love how well the dark teal of the end paper goes with the muted orange. And I really like the little pop of colour the page marker adds.
printing machine
My screen printing machine is now ready to print. I kind of messed up the first screen, but I’m getting there …
At least I made lots of just slightly ugly cephalopods. That’s something?
Also: scissors
