Easy Homemade Printing

This is actually pretty amazing.  We saw this short video in Printmaking class and I want to try it, because it seems like items that one would usually have around the house or obtain fairly easily and cheaply: foil, handsoap, vegetable oil, soda, brayer, and ink.  If you made your image smaller you could run it through a pasta machine to print, too.  Except I only have ONE item in that list.  Go figure.  I never drink soda and we always use liquid soap instead of bar form.  :-<   *SO SAD.*  

I'm wondering if the soda could be substituted for a corn syrup/water mixture, since that is all Coca-Cola is anyway + fizz.

Random Sculpture via "Mess"

Yeah, it's not much.  The assignment from "Mess: Manual of Accidents and Mistakes" ran as followed:

There was a page with an empty nine by nine grid; I was supposed to pick out nine items which I had around my house and pick three of them at random from a hat (I taped an envelope on the cut-out page and stuffed the slips of paper in that) to build a sculpture.  Among my items were nails, q-tips, foam board, Popsicle sticks, nails, etc.  The three that I picked out happened to be wire, q-tips, and Popsicle sticks, so this is what I did with them.

Actually I was surprised how well the paper wire held together the sticks and q-tips.

If I were to add to this I think I might draw on the sticks to give them more umph.  As it is, here be Random Sculpture.

Intro

Hi! 

My name is penwiper aka agnespterry.  I have a DeviantArt account at www.agnespterry.deviantart.com, so if you want to get a jump start to see what kind of art I am making, you can go there to see it. 

I am an art student and I would like to get a Painting BFA, but I may end up with one in Liberal Arts.  I'll likely still take all the painting classes, though, but I'm having trouble transferring several of my classes from my last school.

The blog will probably contain just miscellaneous items I find interesting, links to cool art blogs, comics, recipes, and essentially will be an extension of my DevArt account but with more photos and content and perhaps even some how-to guides.  I want to eventually take some online art classes too, if I feel I have enough money and time, both of which are huge issues for me! 

Right now outside of class I am mainly working on finishing up Keri Smith's "Mess, Manual of Accidents and Mistakes," and I just purchased her newest book "F*nish Th*S B**k."  So I will also post some pictures of my progress in Mess.  :-)  Anyway, guys, have a great day and I will post again soon!