Ivote Progress

I've started working on my Ivote piece today.  I cut out the main section of the piece to look like South America.  I also coated it with asphaltum so I can etch the decaying part of the leaf tomorrow or Friday.  I also decided, after experimenting a couple times, that to get the impression for the veins in the leaf I will put my piece in the hydraulic die press with some wire in order to get what I want.  I took some pictures today while I was working in order to post my progress on here, but my phone is having problems uploading them to my laptop/sending them to my email so the photos will have to wait. 

First Blog Post of the Semester!

Well... the new semester is well underway and now it's time to come up with a theme.  I've tried to come up with a bunch of different things, but the idea that I keep going back to time.  I keep thinking about how the passage of time changes things and I think that would be a fun theme to work with.  I have always loved hour glasses or sand timers and that's just one aspect of time; how it flows. I've also been thinking about different ways things decay or grow as time passes on.  Hopefully this theme isn't too vague but it is pretty broad.

I've been trying to come up with what to do with the pickup sticks for the next recycle/reuse project.  I think I came up with an idea I'm not too sure if I'm happy with it but we'll see how it turns out.