For today's #makersmARTch theme of #stab, here's a #watercolor study I made last October of 1,500 year old #Nazca iconography depicting: 'A boll weevil war'.
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When I make my carving knives I am fond of finishing the grip shaped epoxy handles with a hard #glaze made from mica flour and a pigmeted wash of shellac resin dissolved in ethyl alcohol. The ferule is made from a double lashing of hemp fiber twine.
For the #mARTch, #makersMARTch and #ArtYear theme of #Glue, I am going to experiment making some #DIYCompo traditional molding compound. Compo is famously used for 'composition molding' that you know if you have seen ornate antique picture frames, etc.. The 'glue' is gelatin hide glue. A thread🧵1/