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Week 04 // Stripe Stamps

For this week, I decided to go back to the stamps I created in Week 02 and explore the stripes. I bought four colors of stamps (2 from the dollar store and a two-pack from the thrift store) and went crazy with them. What really drove me to do this was my semi-failure from Week 03 when I tried to created stripe rollers with the wood plugs. I may finish off this project using these stripe stamps to create a pattern on an unfinished dress.

#week 04 #stripes

#week 03 #wood plugs

Week 03 // Wood Plugs

With the local hardware store Pleasant’s closing, I decided to take advantage of their 50% off everything sale. My loot included neon green glow spray paint, house numbers, and 300 wood screw hole plugs. These plugs really interested me: the small object, the smooth wood, the number of them. Yet in diving into this experiment, they seemed a little useless (I’m not a carpenter who needs to fill 300 3/4″ screw holes). Following my experiment from the previous week, I decided to create drawing tools with them. But again, they proved a little useless. They work better as objects than as tools.

#week 03 #wood plugs

#week 02 #monster blocks

sneak peek of my stripe prints

#week 02 #moo carve

Week 02 // Moo Carve

This week I decided to visit another old friend and bought a small linoleum block called Moo Carve. Little less than five dollars for a 4″ x 4″ x 1/2″ semi-soft block. To get the most bang for my buck, I cut it into 1″ squares and carved into both sides, creating 8 possible blocks. My first experiment was a continuous pattern study in which I cut straight simple lines into the block. While I liked this pattern, I wanted something with more personality. So taking a leaf from my own book in senior studio, I created a set of parts with the remaining 6 blocks. To keep these continuous, I marked the edges 1/2″ in on each side so they might line up when I printed them. The result is something I’ very happy with because it’s fun and versatile.

#week 02 #monster blocks #moo carve

#week 02 #monster blocks

#chalk ink #week 01

Week 01 // Chalk Ink

Hello old friend. Nice to reminisce about my restaurant hosting days, when writing the special of the day was the highlight of my shift. Though when those markers were aging and drying out, that highlight was ruined; the best markers are smooth and inky. So in seeing this old friend at the art store and indulging in my quest for white ink, I picked up the $4.99 marker and took him home with me. What followed was mostly an experiment applying the ink to various substrates and how those interacted with hand written typography.

#chalk ink #week 01

#week 01 #chalk ink

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