Showing posts with label spraypaint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spraypaint. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Frisket Film: Amazing tool, but a harsh mistress

I love Frisket Film. I've just started working with it. I did a piece last week where I used it to mask out some great text. The above would have been great as well. I first masked out the razor sharp hexagon leaving behind the smokey plexi-glas. No problems, worked like a charm.
Then there was the second masking, for creating the swooping cloud background for the character. The knife cutting was hard but came out great. There was one problem. I left the frisket on overnight, what I now know is a cardinal frisket no-no, especially in this blasted heat. It was alright over the clean plexi, but where the matte jade paint was the residue was atrocious. I did a hasty paper remask to try to paint over it and save it, but to no avail. The residue is practically sneering at me in that picture. So learn from my mistakes. Frisket Film is great, just don't rest on your laurels.It just happened so I thought I'd post in the moment! The venting has helped.

Monday, August 2, 2010

The Avianettes: Falcon



The tables of turned on this falconer and she likes it.

9"x 6.5"
Stained glass lampshade piece, spraypaint and sharpie

The 3rd
The first 2

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Got their hair did #8


Here's the 8th and final piece. All of these were in the Movies and Makers show at Fox Theatre.
This one in particular went to the event's chief organizer, Lisa Pijuan-Nomura of Girl can Create.

She is giving this lady a very happy home.

#7
#6
#5
#4 SOLD!
#3
#2
#1

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Monday, October 5, 2009

Got their hair did #4

SOLD!
#4 in the series of 8. No Bump-Its here. Bouff-Its, maybe.

#3
#2
#1

Also, this is apparently my 100th post! To celebrate I will try to get to sleep before 3 tonight. I'm not promising anything.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Friday, October 2, 2009

Got their hair did #2


#2 in the series of 8. There must have been some serious hairspray tycoons in the 60s. Good-bye Ozone!

Full story here

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Got their hair did #1


Over the years I've accumulated a lot of unique surfaces that I have left unfinished or unbegun. It ends now. From an old Operation game board to a raw matryoshka nesting doll, (both now in progress, thank heavens) they start to haunt you. Once they were fiercely inspiring but left to grow dusty on the shelf they become ugly goblins, mocking you as you stroll by.

What the piece above (about 2.5'' square) was painted on is definitely from the crypt. This series is painted on half the stained glass pieces from a salvaged hanging lampshade. It was grabbed one night on a walk--- from what was technically garbage (garbage picker!). I brought it home and quickly dismantled it with some tin-snips. The pieces have been in a drawer long enough to be moved to a new apartment and I moved almost 2 years ago, so, SHIT!

60's Hairdos!

There are 8 in all. They will be sold separately in the Cyclops and Owl etsy store once the hangers are applied.