Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!
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You might say “overworked is the starting point”
Begins like this
Evolves into this
Quoting the Ben Stiller scene from Happy Gilmore: “My fingers hurt!”
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Some days Zen is easy, others not so much. Do the best you can…
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Thanks @Steve. All colored pencil. This is 850gsm cold pressed watercolor paper and each line that you see takes many minutes to complete with a considerable amount of hand force. Takes a loooong time to etch lines with a soft pencil.
The first lines
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@Steve essentially, yes. Etching, engraving, tattooing could all work in a pinch. But the problem is that this process is both additive and subtractive, and the texture evolves as well, with all the movements of my hand and rubbing of the lines (which itself is a laborious exercise), so it’s not easy to describe what is ultimately taking place on this sheet of paper. That’s why I like to refer to them as zen gardens, since the process is like raking sand with all the paper pulp, pencil dust and broken pieces of color that get accumulated.
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One of these days maybe @Steve. I also have a load of broken leads I can do something with eventually. It’s nice that they can still be useful after they are no longer useful!
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My hands are not as small as theirs
My fingers hurt! -
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Getting my shop up and running. Finished out a few old projects and a coupla new ones. Also refinished the Gish Steelworks ring pop & bead.
I love working with Damascus.
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