Wednesday, August 31, 2016

my arthritic joints are crying


Things are going to be a bit boring around here as I've started on the fabrication for the A&M job cutting the stencil for the first panel which I have already changed from the diagram which is an altered mess. It's got as much white-out on it as it does ink. Been working on it two days so far and might finish it today. 



It's a short day though (yoga) and there are a couple of other things on the agenda. Like decide on and box up and send off a piece to a gallery for their annual anniversary show, something I should have done already. That alone could take all day.

I did make some progress on the finish work on the cast pieces but have not got anything finished. Well, maybe the pink flower with the bee and the leaflet. They are done but I still have to glue them together. 4"w x 5"h x 2"d





14 comments:

  1. Spectacular flower and bee. They make me happy to my soul.

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  2. Love the flower and bee, but portraits are my main interest and I can't wait to see this finished glass piece.

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    1. I wish I had reduced the image a little. looked OK on paper but looks like it's crowding the edges on the glass.

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  3. Nice job on the bee. Hard to keep going some days.

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  4. If I had to cut that stencil, the x-acto knife would fly off the board and stick in my leg on the second pass. That is some fine line cutting ahead of you.

    The flower and the bee went out to sea...

    It's lovely.

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  5. I do intricate decoupage which means every little line has to be cut by hand and some of them can get quite intricate. So if I'm understanding, and you have to cut that out, I feel for you.

    Flower and bee, love it!

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  6. This is stunning. Mesmerizing. Thanks for sharing your work.

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  7. The blossom and the bee is wonderful. Emily Dickinson had some closing lines to a poem that went something like this: "In the name of the butterfly, and the blossom, and bee -- amen!" That's close enough.

    I saw your title. Do you know about organic (i.e., no sugar added0 cherry juice for arthritis? When the joints in my hands swell and get painful, a cupful a day reduces the inflammation. I read about it online, and figured it wouldn't hurt -- and it did help. It's apparently one of the best natural anti-inflammatories there is.

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    1. someone else I know recommended that. I use gin soaked raisins and find it very helpful. in normal day to day living I rarely suffer pain. just when I m cutting stencils or doing model making where I am using my hands in cramped positions for hours at a time do they really hurt. and even then not nearly as badly as when I get complacent and stop eating them. but the cherry juice might be a good additional thing when I am using my hands so intensely.

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  8. We don't get arthritis in my family. We get tendonitis. Or in my case, ligamentitis, if there is such a thing.

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  9. The flower and bee are fantastic. And looking at the sketch of the work in progress keeps reminding me of just how intricate and incredible your work is.

    Hope your arthritic joints give you a break.

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    1. It's not really as bad as my title implied. but cutting stencils for days in a row does make the hand cramp and the joints unhappy. I do have a folk remedy, gin soaked raisins, that I use which helps immensely.

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  10. Exquisite work on the flower and the bee!

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  11. I love the flower & bee too! So pretty!

    Mike used to use the cherry juice when his (self-diagnosed) gout would act up & it worked really well!

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