Nifty stuff, new places to hurt fingers, some blues to learn etc.
Some nifty stuff in progress….etchings right out of the acid with the resist removed, but not yet polished up, some watch parts and gears, a mostly cut out copper 45 rpm record adaptor etc. These should all be finished tomorrow at some point and I will post pics of the new pieces then. They will look much different than this whimsical collection of metal bits. I love how these things look like a random rough pile of “eh, nothing special”, but by tomorrow will look like wearable art pieces. I can hardly wait! (Can you tell it rained AGAIN today. Will it ever stop?)
Also, while I am posting pics, here is one of my garden in one of the brief moments where it wasn’t raining – yesterday, I think. I took it from such an angle as that I can pretend that my garden is not also rife with weeds (which it shamefully is, but I haven’t the time nor inclination to remedy).
Tuesday, guitar lesson day – always a good day. So many new things learned… taking the picking pattern and playing Dust in the Wind now (doesn’t everybody have to learn to play that? Isn’t it just one of those things?). Anyways, I quite like it – I like all this finger picking stuff, so lots to practice. Also…also… Lord Send Me an Angel! by Blind Willie McTell, and also played by the White Stripes. My first Blues song, with that snazzy little bluesy riff that I thought would be way beyond my very limited capabilities, but turns out that it is very much within reach with some practice. But now all of these chords where I hold down more than one string with one finger, which has resulted in new places and new ways to remove the skin from my hands. Why do I have to love guitar so much? Piano never hurt me this way, drums never did a cruel thing to me…why not them?
I don’t have too much to write about right now…my head is consumed with these new jewelry pieces, of rivets and copper…