this is a reprint of “hedge row” that i made for a friend who preferred white paper over grey. 
the black is printed. color is added back in with prismacolor pencils. (the grey ones are in my etsy shop.)
there wasn’t a lot of time today (it’s caucus day in washington state!) so i cranked out a gocco print. after it was dry, i added detail back with graphite. (normally i would’ve made another screen for that step but i used my last one on the pink! d’oh!) 
I was playing around with patterns today and came up with this floral Easter theme design.
This is the artwork that I will use to screen print for another Thing-a-Day challenge.
For Day 9, I will print and frame some inspirational photos for my yoga area.
Today I did a billion things, but most importantly, I finished the silhouette notecards for my daughter’s thank you notes! I printed them with a gocco. I think they came out quite smashing. The blue is very brilliant in the real world (I took this photo in the dark).
I also started my next project - a personalized shrinky dink bracelet for a dear friend.
My theme for this week is childhood. Shrinky Dinks were very popular when I was a tot, although I never really got into them because you didn’t draw your own pictures and I did not have much use for the little plastic figures. But I have seen the light. I was inspired by a project in Super Crafty. This book taught me how to make my own shrinky dink beads, but instead of using their images, I decided to use my own.
I have a friend who makes me and my family the coolest knit jewelry, toys, bibs, and dishcloths. (check out her stuff at reine.etsy.com). So I wanted to make her something.
She loves typography so I made shrinky dink “beads” with beautiful lettering. I printed out the images onto shrink plastic (the images came from Fancy Alphabets, then I colored in the pictures with colored pencils and cut 2 inch circles. I punched the holes and then baked! I then coated the front with clear nailpolish to preserve the color. Here are the “beads” as they lay out drying:
I hope to assemble the bracelet tomorrow.
Today I began my final correspondence themed project. I did not know what I was going to do until this morning when it dawned on me.
My daughter, Gloria, receives many gifts from family and fans. Who can blame them - she is totally awesome. In return for that stuff, I send out thank you notes. I love stationary, but if anyone could use personalized stationary, it’s not me, it’s Gloria.
So I flipped through some clipart and found a little girl silhouette I liked, but it decidedly did not resemble my little girl’s silhouette. So I decided to make my own silhouette of Gloria. I cannot draw, so that was not an option. Nor was the traditional art form which would be like drawing, but with scissors. So I took a photo of her profile and began to futz with the image in Photoshop Elements, which I have no idea how to use. It is nothing short of a miracle that I designed the card in Elements. I may not have used a good approach but I succeeded.
I may use a pen to try and get rid of some of the pixel look to the image. If you have suggestions on how to do that in Elements itself, please leave a comment.
Finally I will use my gocco to print the cards - I have to xerox the picture before I continue because an inkjet printout is not suitable to make the gocco master. I have included the template I will use for my master. I am pretty stoked.
So, I used my brand new Gocco to print my narwhal illustration on an old sweatshirt. It’s my first time screen printing on fabric, so it’ s definitely not perfect… a little off-center and not super crisp. I’m figuring stuff out though. Hopefully I’ll be happier with my next attempt (I already have a design in mind). If anyone out there has experience/pointers for this sort of thing, don’t be shy about sharing! It’s still pretty cool though, right? 
Heard about this thing-a-day deal today while wasting time doing research at work, got home, and my Gocco (japanese screen-printing apparatus) had arrived in the mail after being on backorder for like ever. Guess it’s fate… the universe wants me to get my flabby creative ass in gear. Oh hell jeah!