Currently listening to the Moby Dick Big Read, a sort of audiobook version of Moby-Dick created by Peninsula Arts and Plymouth University. I can’t decide whether the best part is the variety of readers’ voices or the links to awesome Moby-Dick related art with each chapter, but it’s very early days yet. Right now, Tilda Swinton is telling me all about the instinctual human desire to go to sea.
http://www.mobydickbigread.com
Fun times experimenting with screen print while making girl scout patches at work. I
Things I am currently reading:
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook Pablo Helguera
Creative Block Danielle Krysa
Oil and water, apparently not just for salad dressing.
And then I made six more... for reasons.
Experimenting with some quick and dirty paper marbling methods for work. Normally you would blend methylcellulose and water into this really gloopy mix, drop inks into that, and then rinse the excess gloop and ink off of prepared paper, but I wanted to cut down on the number of steps.
The oil and food coloring method was definitely too oily, but on my second attempt, I tried thinning out oil paints with gamsol, and that worked pretty well.
Some of the links I used to start with:
http://billnye.com/billnye_resource/marvelous-marbling/