City Block - Faux Print

Here we go.  Bill did the "laying on of hands" that always fixes my computer (mind you I did the same thing he did -- reseated a plug -- but I don't have the proper faith in computers that he does).  So my scanner is now working again and I can make a faux print (i.e., a black & white, mirrored image of the block to see what a print might look like).

Ok, now all I have to do is get a local paper to wrap it up in (part of the requirement) and then send it winging off to the City of the World Puzzle Project.

City Puzzle Block - at last!

Mea culpa.  I'm chronically late, as usual.  But here it is:  my contribution to the City Puzzle Block.  What is more ubiquitous than a pigeon on a balcony railing?

As soon as I figure out why my scanner is on a work stopage, I'll scan it in for a faux print.  Then it will be winging its way to Maria Arango and the City of the World project.

PUZZLE PROJECT #3: CITY OF THE WORLD

http://www.1000woodcuts.com/projects/cityoftheworld/index.html

MCPP Puzzle Prints
http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com/

Gallery Show

I have 3 paleo pieces in the latest gallery show at the Valencia Town Center Mall.  This is our second gallery show in this wonderful venue.  Santa Clarita Artists Association's very own gallery.  8-]

There is a reception tonight with refreshments until 7pm.  Come by if you're in the area.

The Poop on Pigeons

On to the next project.  No rest for the over-extended.

I've been mulling over my block for the City of the World Puzzle Block Project:  http://www.1000woodcuts.com/projects/cityoftheworld/index.html, Maria Arango's latest massively collective project (talk about over-extended!).  ;- j

Check out this blog and see all the amazing blocks that have come in already:  http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com/

I thought I might do something with my animals, or my back yard, but nothing suitably city-y occured to me (the fact that I live in a suburb might have something to do with it).

So recently I've been thinking about pigeons.  They're ubiquitous in a city -- even a suburb.  (On good days we call them doves; when they're fat and waddly from eating other birds' feed we call them pigeons.)

I've got a couple ideas I'm cogitating on, and soon I'll be carving on.  The deadline approaches and tempus threatens to frangle.

Xmas Card 2011

Cards ordered thru Vista Print.  *whew* 

What a project.  One complication after another, but it's done now.

I'm calling it Denizens until something better occurs to me.  I can't give in to my other title:  Not Even a Mouse.  That'd be the 3rd xmas print titled that.  ;->  I really am a creature of habit.

Xmas Card - Second Block

Second block printed (all at once, as the rainy weather kept the ink from drying out).  8-]

I think the project was an overall success (altho at this point all I see are the glaring errors).  ;- j

Now I wait for them to dry and then scan them into the computer and start making the xmas cards with Vista Print.  I am so behind on this project.  I think the xmas cards are going to be new year's cards this year.  ;- y

Xmas Card - First Block

First block printed.  8-]  Waiting for it to dry now so I can print the second block.