rangerBlog - December 21st, 2007

07:56 pm

At right is a christmas gift I'm working on for my mother- an embossed picture of her kissing her grandchild. I ende dup doign some embossing at school this year and, well... I'm at art school. (Even if I am getting a business degree from it.) I feel vaguely obligated to gift something arty on occasion.

The method I came up with however, after reading a bunch of stuff and consolidating ideas... is kinda process-intensive.

To create one 5"x7" embossing, this is my workspace:

It's supposed to seat 8. All that crap? Mine.

The first of (pictured above) took almost 6 hours. The second one (about 20% more complicated) looks to be on track to be completed in 3 hours. This is a result of workflow streamlining, and about $5 in supplies I picked up to enable that. Hopefully I can finish #3 (the last) tonight as well, leaving me just to pick up the frames at target or something. Black should look nice against white paper. (The paper I'm using isn't quite snow-white enough to pull off a white frame.)

Unstained light brown wood might look nice too.