In case it doesn’t dry in time for me to do the embroidery I had in mind, find here the picture of the potato masher impression in the Artist Gel Medium I’ve had around forever waiting to figure out what to do with it. The stuff resembles, well, mashed potatos, making the conclusion obvious to me. The card is waiting on the radiator for the heat to come on when the kids come home, so it can dry so I can do some machine embroidery in the space where the masher was.
I have run out of interfacing for postcards. I bought enough for three weeks, and I had an extra yard from a previous enthusiasm, and it is ALL GONE! Tomorrow’s postcard and Illustration Friday will be the end of what is in the house, and I need more. Hooray! I am using fabrics I dyed and painted and manipulated at a tremendous clip. Some of the more boring or egregious have been pre-fusibled and cut into backs for postcards, some are being used as backgrounds, some trimmed and used as key pieces. In this culture where we are encouraged to acquire stuff for our stash, and hoard it, it feels kind of subversive to make stuff from the stash. I love the feeling of using things I made. I like finding a purpose for stuff I made with no particular purpose.
Lee Thomson 