Spooktacular Artsy Stuff

Greetings my spooky friends!
I just wanted to say hi and let you know I am having a fabulous doodah adventure this week! You know the kind, when you just can't stop singing: Zippity DooDah! Zippity Aaa! My oh My what a wonderful day!!!!
My friend "C" sent me an email letting me know about the free demos going on all week at the Art & Frame Shop and so yesterday at 10 am we watched as Suzanne demonstrated watercolors.
 Today we watched as Gudrun instructed us in pastel.
 Tomorrow is printing techniques using a press with linoleum, wood blocks and copper plates!!!
Thursday is airbrushing and bookbinding!
I am so excited! I had never been there- well, not for a very long time anyway and was happy to find a source for silk by the yard and dying supplies and fabric pastels. I bought some more just to have on hand. The last time I bought silk was in Asheville at the Earth Guild and I dyed it and then stamped on it and have just a few left to applique on to fabric. When I do some more I'll take pictures to share if you guys are interested.
I also found a cool new (to me) medium made by Golden. It prepares surfaces to be printed on with your ink-jet printer!

Here is the link to learn more about it.
I know I'll be right behind you!
 I bought some and am dying to try it!
I just need to know a little bit more about it first!
 Apparently you paint it on and let it completely dry then you can run it through your printer- like say handmade paper or thin sheets of metal or any relatively flat substrate-wallpaper, leather, or unsealed wood veneer or like fabric!!! yes, fabric!!!
I have the 8 1/2x11" sheets of freezer paper and can just iron it on and then coat with this stuff...I guess... we'll find out won't we??!
I have seen people printing out copies of their artwork on to veneer and tried to get a source for that but didn't like the cost! I would do that if I had prints to sell- it looks super cool, but I do have fabric that looks like wood grain-
I could use this or the Bubblejet set stuff to make the fabric printer ready..
 It also talks about making acrylic skins- thin layers of acrylic mixed with gel medium and allowed to dry and then peeled up and printed on- It would have to go through on something firm like acetate or something. Very interesting!
What a wonderful world!
The art companies are catching up to the computer age and soon we will have cheaper fabric that comes ready to print on and printers with fabric dye and in larger sizes than 8 1/2 x11"...only a matter a time.
anyway. That's what I'm up to- and working on quilts for swaps and aprons! I am going to be an craftbot octopus for Halloween- one that never sleeps! argh!
Keep an eye out for zombies....
Hauntingly yours,
calamity kim