I’ve been reading “Notebooks, Collections & Other Obsessions” by Guillermo Del Toro. When I reached the Pan’s Labyrinth section, I started wondering about female fauns because I’d never read about any. After washing it around in my head for 2 days I decided to consult Wikipedia (yes, it seriously took 2 days) and I discovered Fauna. She is the daughter (sometimes wife) of Faunus (aka Pan) and she can foretell the future, sings “fates” to women and nurtures all that is useful to living creatures. My idea of what is “useful” to living creatures went on a rampage of ridiculous themes but I kept coming back to this idea of Nachash going to Fauna for advice on how to rid the world of the plague of people.
This papercut is incredibly small. The black part measures 3″ x 3″. Nachash is about 1 mm thick. Please forgive the lack of detail. It’s tiny.
I have about 150 78’s that are music that I’m not really into. Mainly polka and awful crooners from the 40’s & 50’s. That’s what happen’s when you buy lots of 78’s just to get the one or two decent ones in the pile. I’m currently out of the wood panels that I have been painting these on, so I decided to try using my pile of crap 78’s instead. It worked out pretty well and I may try a few more. The B-side of the 78 I painted this on is called “Goodnight Sweetheart”. I thought it was too good not to use in the title since it wasn’t something I planned.
I’m not completely satisfied with the gray I used here, but it was the best one I had on hand. If I can find one that works better, I’ll probably use it.
This is slightly larger than normal at 20″ x 16″ and will be available at the Waxwing’s 2 Year Anniversary on March 14th. I’ve also been trying to put together a box of all of my post cards. Naive me just discovered that they are called A2 boxes last night. Anyway, I’ll put something here and on Facebook when I’ve got that all sorted out. When it is done, the image above will be exclusively included in sets purchased through the Indiegogo International Women’s Day event put together by Lunar Mama Craftworks. They will hopefully be listed on there shortly. I’ll update this post when the details have been sorted out.
This mainly came out of the song Bad Habit by the Modern Superstitions and some personal experiences. Designed, cut and created in one day! I like it when things click together like that.
Thank you bitter song lyrics.
I finally updated the gallery of negative images from me painting on wood. Access the entire gallery here: wood
This is everything. There are a couple I gave away before scanning them but I think that amounts to only 2 or 3.
About 1 in 5 times, this doesn’t work. The paint soaks through, or runs or is too subtle to make a memorable image. That accounts for there not being one for everything.
Oh, or they are too large. The cuts I made for friends that are larger than 20″ were painted on paper and not wood.
Happy Lupercalia. It’s time to break out the goatskins and cast away evil.
I was pretty excited to find these. I made the top one back before Christmas and added color to the bottom one the same day. I scanned them and took them down to Waxwing and by the time I got home my computer had crashed and I lost all of the scans I took of both of them. Up until now they only existed on the Waxwing tumblr page. Tonight I was cleaning up my computer files and when I looked in my scanner memory, there they were. The originals are long gone, but now I have good copies of them again.