kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)

Here’s a tutorial on how to make the Chained Chain Join for joining pieces in crochet. It creates a beautiful textured braid between the two pieces that are joined.

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kerravonsen: Crayons vs Despair - animated (crayons)
I am all with the Loki feels. Yes, yes, I am discovering this fandom far too late and I don't care. Means people have already written the fanfic. And made the vids. What's not to like?

Loki: Survivor
Loki: Impossible
Loki Laufeyson - I Don't Care
kerravonsen: animated sequence of geeks with the word "geek" around them (geek-anim)
So, I'm wondering if there's anything y'all would like me to make a video about. Some craft you want me to demonstrate? Something about Australia you want me to (attempt to) show? Something you want me to do a rant about? Hmmm? Ask me!

Otherwise I'll still be happily doing Fluid Art and other crafty things. I just would find it nice to be able to do something that I know somebody is interested in.
kerravonsen: Eighth Doctor screaming: "you've been cut adrift" (cut-adrift)
I'm no longer going to post here about my YouTube videos. They get automatically announced on Twitter, while I have to do this by hand, and there doesn't seem to be any point, since nobody's watching them anyway. Not even my nine subscribers.

I'm still making them, though, since I promised myself that I would post on YouTube at least once a week.
kerravonsen: Cat staring upwards: OMG iz fulla starz (LOLcat)
021 Fluid Art - Mars Black versus Carbon Black

This time, I am trying again to compare the properties of Mars Black versus Carbon Black. Not sure if I succeeded in that goal, but I did make some prettiness in black & white (with a touch of metallics and pearls). I'm also trying a new kind of paper.

Also, I have a cold, and I am tired and achy.
kerravonsen: Eighth Doctor screaming: "you've been cut adrift" (cut-adrift)
020 Shellac Cells?

This week I tried to make "shellac cells" (or "shellac lacing") following the method used by Annemarie Ridderhof here ( https://youtu.be/JUz97lBoOKI ) and here ( https://youtu.be/o10Z-_hnwJU ). Not having any encaustic wax, I tried doing it on bare wood. And I tried... and I tried... and I tried... and I tried...

The wood (actual wood, not MDF) was laser-cut 25mm (1 inch) disks purchased from here: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Timber-Wood-Base-Disk-Circle-Shape-3mm-Thick-10mm-to-100mm-Diameter-Earrings/222738298555
The shellac was made up from shellac flakes ( https://www.bunnings.com.au/feast-watson-250g-shellac-flakes_p1567019 ) bought from Bunnings a few years ago. Freshly dissolved in methylated spirits. No problems in dissolving it, there were no lumps or anything like that.

I am feeling very disheartened about this fail.
kerravonsen: (spiral)
019 Fluid Art - Making A Nebula Results

So, the paint is dry, and we now see the results from video 018! Did I succeed? Do we have spacey stars and pretty dips? Or not?

Tell me what you think.
kerravonsen: Eighth Doctor's legs sticking out from underneath TARDIS console: "tea, tools, Tinkering" (tinkering)
018 Fluid Art - Making A Nebula

At the suggestion of [personal profile] vilakins, this time I am trying to make a spacey nebula image. Will I succeed?
I used various techniques inspired by this video by DeliberatelyCreative: https://youtu.be/Nx4LQ49Xn-0
kerravonsen: A bee sipping from a flower: "The busy bee has no time for sorrow" (busy bee)
017 Fluid Art STOP Challenge - Tunnel Pour Results

This video shows the dried results from video 016, the tunnel pour, and the dips.
There are some wins! And some fails.

Comment here or comment there, but please comment. (Yes, Nico, you are faithfully commenting, thank you!)
kerravonsen: Hiro with arms spread: "I DID it!" (i-did-it)
016 Fluid Art STOP Challenge - Tunnel Pour

What is the "STOP Challenge"? It is the challenge to stop fiddling with the pour!
This time, I am doing a "tunnel pour", and some dips.
Watch me making a fool of myself fooling around...

Comment there, or comment here, but please comment!
kerravonsen: (Default)
015 Fluid Art STOP Challenge - More Green Yellow Black

What is the "STOP Challenge"? It is the challenge to stop fiddling with the pour!
I wanted to have one more go at the greens + yellows + black colour scheme, this time with a flip cup.
This was filmed on the same day as the previous video. It does take time to edit them, y'see. Well, the longest time is rendering and uploading. Hours!
kerravonsen: Joe peering around a corner: Just watching (just-watching)
014 Fluid Art STOP Challenge - Coffee Cup Pour

What is the "STOP Challenge"? It is the challenge to stop fiddling with the pour! Let's see how well I do, eh?
This acrylic paint fluid art pour has a greens yellows and black colour scheme, with a "coffee cup" dirty pour.

PEOPLE! Do let me know if you want me to stop or to continue posting about my videos. They are automatically notified on twitter, while I have to do this by hand. If nobody comments, I'm going to have to assume I'm boring you, and stop posting about it.
kerravonsen: glass button: "Shiny!" (shiny)
013 Another Method of Jewellery-Making With Acrylic Pour Sheets - Part 3

I take the two sole survivors of the previous videos and turn them into earrings!
kerravonsen: 7th Doctor frowning: *frown* (frown)
012 Another Method of Jewellery-Making With Acrylic Pour Sheets - Part 2

The prototype experiment continues. Will acrylic pour sheets stuck to foamcore work as a basis for flat beads? Will I run out of Diamond Glaze? Will I make silly mistakes? Will this be an epic fail or can I snatch victory from the jaws of defeat?

Hello, is anyone there?
kerravonsen: "Great big threatening button which must not be pressed under any circumstances" (threatening-button)
011 Another Method of Jewellery-Making With Acrylic Pour Sheets - Part 1

The most common method of using acrylic pour skins (made from nothing but dried poured acrylic paint) or acrylic pour sheets (made by pouring acrylic paint on sheets of paper or plastic) is to cut out shapes to fit inside bezel settings, glue them in, and then cover them with a protective surface. This gives you a pendant or charm. In this video, I am prototyping a different method, which will create a pendant, charm, or bead.

Materials:
White Foam Core Sheet (you can also get it in black)
Acrylic Pour Sheet, made with Jo Sonja Acrylic Paint on Kodak Ultra Premium Photo Paper
Very wide double-sided tape
Judkins Diamond Glaze

Tools:
Scissors
Awl
Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine
Cutting die (lots of little hexagons)

Tell me what you think!
kerravonsen: Stone egg on moss: "Art is Life, Life is Art" (art)
010 Fluid Art Experiments With Thinner Paint - 4

Continued session of fluid art experiments, part 4. See what strange and unexpected things happen this time!

Paints:
Jo Sonja Titanium White + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Green Oxide + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Ultramarine Blue Deep + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Pthalo Green + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Pthalo Blue + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Dioxazine Purple + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Red Violet + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Transparent Magenta + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Pebeo Vinyl Tempera Prima Magic White + some water
Liquitex Basics Mars Black + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water

There is NO SILICONE OIL in any of these paints.

Papers: Kodak Ultra Premium Photo paper, stuck with Painters Tape onto non-stick paper which is in turn stuck to corrugated cardboard, though the sticky tape would rather stick to everything else.
And yupo paper, for the dip.

I hope y'all aren't getting sick of this...
kerravonsen: Ron Weasley looking up, puzzled (Ron)
See my UV resin fail for no reason! Problems with Lisa Pavelka Magic-Glos UV Resin
If anyone can explain to me why this happens, and what I can do to prevent it, PLEASE do so!
kerravonsen: Jarod investigating ice cream: Genius at work (icecream)
Fluid Art Experiments With Thinner Paint - 3

New session of fluid art experiments, part 3. Will thinner paint produce better or worse results? Will there be happy accidents or unhappy accidents? Watch and see!

Paints:
Jo Sonja Titanium White + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Dioxazine Purple + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Red Violet + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Transparent Magenta + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Cadmium Yellow Light + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Burnt Umber + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Yellow Oxide + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Green Oxide + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water
Jo Sonja Pthalo Green + Jo Sonja Flow Medium 1:1 ratio, then some water

There is NO SILICONE OIL in any of these paints.

Papers: Kodak Ultra Premium Photo paper.

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kerravonsen: Jarod investigating ice cream: Genius at work (Jarod)
New session of fluid art experiments, part 2. Will thinner paint produce better or worse results? Or perhaps... results that look like the Wicked Witch of the West when she's had water thrown on her? Watch and see! My new video is here.
kerravonsen: Luna Lovegood, a tilted picture hanging on a wall (Luna)
Another video!
New session of fluid art experiments, part 1. Will thinner paint produce better or worse results? And what's with all the black?
007 Fluid Art Experiments With Thinner Paint, Part 1

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