2012-07-20

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2012-07-20 07:21 am
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Tactile art project: Mexican tin art

The Art of Darkness blog has a link to this tutorial for a Mexican Dia de Los Muertos tin nicho or altar
http://craftingforcheapskates.blogspot.com/2012/07/tin-altar.html#!/2012/07/tin-altar.html
using disposable aluminum baking pans. I've investigated kits for making similar tin panels, and they are extremely expensive, so this idea is economically as well as artistically accessible, although I would opt for something less dangerous than Xacto knives and hot glue guns. Also, if you use some sort of black wash over the tin, you can get a nice antiqued effect, which makes it a great medium for creating spooky Halloween effects (think gnarled old oak tree, serpentine monsters, haunted house, etc.).
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2012-07-20 02:08 pm
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Love is

having a sweetie who enables your book habit, especially when it is an incredibly geeky book about one of your favorite books:
_Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and Modern Theory by Theresa Coletti (1989)