DEBORAHREAD.COM: April 2020

Getting into the studio for 2020

As the weather is getting better I have to get up to my studio and start cleaning up. Basically havnt really been up there for 2 years other than putting more stuff up there, my daughter moving in and her stuff going in there last year - grabbing stuff I needed down to the house. So like a new years resolution I thought I better outline what I want to get done and see how I do for the spring/summer and fall - Although my main show has been cancelled for this year - its my opportunity to stock up and build up things and try some new things in the studio . going to list 20 items and see where I get to

1. Create a Vitrograph kiln and set it up - I purchased all the fixins for this years ago and have the kiln so just need to build a set up to pull from

2. Clean up and get all my daughters boxes stored to the back corner
3. Get all my books and magazines (that are in totes from my downstairs room that got taken over by my daughter ) either stored/stacked to back of studio or get some bookcases to get some of them out and accessible
4. clean up my Pen turning equipment area (I left it a mess during the winter )
5. Clean up BIG kiln area so I can get in and start fusing
6. Clean up my wine bottle area - its overflowing with bottles
7. Work on Some PMC Clay
8. Do more steel etching plates
9. Do more copper etching - earrings, pendants, bracelets
10. Make more recycled glass Plates (round and square min 50)
11. Make more recycled glass candle holders (min 50 )
12. Make more fish large and small
13 Make more cats regular and fat Paddy
14 Make more lamp work jewelry (bubble necklaces min 10)
15 Paint and finish a tiger or any other painted project
16 Make painted beads
17 Make more turtles
18 make more dragon eyes
19 make more hearts
20 Make more ceramic pattern sheets for fusing

that should keep me busy over the next month at least and see where I am

Everyone Stay Safe

Another Resin cup - coming along

I started with a brown base for crackle effect - then I did a seal of epoxy and some light glitter - now I have put on some sunflowers - not sure the main one staying or going to replace with one that says You are my Sunshine

Resin Cups - Shipwreck

another white painted cup - and using electrical tape taped it off to make boards on a ship
I did the whole cup

Then I used a darker brown alcohol ink and painted it on - then used a clear seal and pulled the tape off

I only sealed the upper half and applied the lighter brown to emulate wood (the bottom half is going to be water ) the octopus I am going to put on is at the side - on clear waterslide

I put the octopus on -

was very hard to see

so decided to create it on white water slide and cut it out and overlay it

I then applied resin and alcohol inks for the ocean

applied another section of octopus and a bit more resin and inks

not a great pic but what it looks like finished

More resins cups - nightmare before christmas tattoo - crime scene cups

I took 2 more of the white painted cups

I applied the NMBC tattoo - boy that was fun and awkward on these cups with the reduced bottom -
the first half not so bad but still had some cracks but the second half what a mess

but luckily markers worked to fill in and over wright - and used them as well to fill in the extra white spaces so it looked all linked

I got the tattoos from Amazon.com 12 of them for about 13.00 u.s. the amazon canada was way high even with conversion and shipping

you can really see the cracks and spaces

I then did two crime scene cups - the first I put slashes of red - and I love that I did in a different red than the decals I made - I put drips around the edge and printed more blood splotches and the crime scene tape

Here are the fronts - after resin

Here are the backs after resin - the NBC cup you cant tell at all there were spaces or cracks in the tattoo

More Resin Cups - Smoke & X-ray Flowers and a Pennywise cup

So I painted a nice couple of cups white - no drips - yeah ! (so I ended up with a few white based cups )

The first one I wanted to try was a "smoke" cup where you use a little tea light and a piece of metal (knife) over the flame to cause it to smoke and voila - you get a nice looking background to work with

I then sealed it with a clear spray so it would not move from holding it in my hands

then I printed what are called x-ray flowers and a phrase and butterflies and applied the waterslide decals to the cup sealed it again with a clear spray - so it wont lift while applying epoxy

image of x-ray flowers