Saturday, September 20, 2008
Fly-Fishing Montana
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The Shed/Playhouse Re-Visited
It's a Living Roof
Early Summer
Late Summer
Everybody asks me about drainage. In the little drawing above, you can see
Door to upstairs playhouse.
The kids and I did sleep up here one night
through the north truss.
Storage under the kid's deck.
Inside the shed.
Transforms easily into a functional bar for backyard parties.
Gone fishin'. Open for business!
Handy counter space...
holds all of my tools.
This fall & winter I'll spread bird seed in the bird playground window. Playhouse fun Stop! Hammock time!
This hammocmk we purchased in Ecuador.
We have another chair hammock
(you can see it in the backgorund of the picture of me above)
that we bought in Nicaragua. Hammocks are a delight.
Pretty silly, huh?Once again big, big thanks to my wood pimp,
"Balancing Axe" Jeremiah Anderson,
amazing timber framer and friend.
Check out some of the stuff he does on You Tube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkCWmCU4xHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wnrgxKktqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTWYMyJnHB8
The End
see: http://kneelingbullmagic.blogspot.com/2007/11/shedplayhouse.html
for info regarding the earlier stages of this project
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Collagraph Workshop Part 2
make a template for positioning plate and paper,and get the press set up with blankets
Next, I get my ink out
(we'll have black, blue and brown available)...
and start spreading it on to the plate -
Here the plate is covered with ink.
The rubber spatula makes it easier to spread ink
in to all the cracks and crevices of the plate.
I start by scraping the top layer of ink from the plate
with a piece of mat board. This removes most of the excess ink.
I wipe the plate. The surface ink gets picked up in the weave of the tartlatan
Now, using a bent playing card to keep my inky fingers from
leaving finger maks all over my paper,
I remove the soaked paper and let it drip...
you can see the embossing of the plate
on the back side of the paper.
and, voila!
A Collagraph Print
so I like to give the print a week or so before
handling or framing. After that I've
an archival print that should last well beyond
my great grandchildren's lifetime.