Last year I had some budget left at my DayJob. I thought about all of the things I needed for my studio, and then I ordered a small cheap table saw. The response was interesting, you’d have thought I bought a guillotine. I didn’t buy it for kids to use, I bought it as a way to save money for cutting panels down for painting and carving.

Anyway, the saw I bought is not ...

I’ve been creatively reusing packaging for a long long time. Every so many years companies will go through marketing and packaging overhauls. Sometimes packaging will look the same but some manufacturing process is changed somewhere and for reuse this can be a disaster.

One might think that all drink stick packaging is the same or really similar. It isn’t. My wife enjo...

When I was a kid I did a craft project at either Sunday School or at regular school where we drew with crayons on sandpaper and then ironed it onto plain white paper for this cool waxy semi transparent stained glass effect. It would have been the early 80s and I have no recollection of who did this with us but I do remember my poor mom having to deal with me being obsessed wi...

One of the things I’ve learned through my various attempts at completing 30 day and 100 day projects is that repetition builds capability and most of all understanding of a method or a material.

If you REALLY want to learn to use a material, sitting down and working with it 30 to 100 times is key.

I have some experience with making prints from a variety of mater...

I’ve been testing out a variety of glues to use for making my trash prints. I had a sweet little plate made out of an Ocean Spray Drink packet carton. These cartons are quite small and the card is stiff but soft enough to carve easily. The paint is nice and slick, but not overly plasticky. As cartons go, it’s an ideal surface. I had it carved up and wanted to add some areas o...