Making
Paint pouring, craftventions, Lori-ventions, and the ongoing project of making the environment work better.
Craftvention
Wall art made from stained glass, cardboard, and fur. A portrait of Pax using found and recycled materials. Rated 5/5.
Craftvention
A side table and toy storage box designed to look like the cat who uses it. Paint-poured resin top in Pax's colors, felt collar band with silver studs, motion-activated interior light, cat-proof latches. Rated 4.5/5.
Lori-vention
Furniture built from cardboard and packing materials. What you do when you have the materials and the need at the same time. Rated 3/5 — functional, not precious.
Paint Pouring
A series in progress. The goal is wall art that uses the physics of fluid dynamics as the design tool — pigment weight, pour sequence, and gravity doing the work.
Paint Pouring
The dominant color story in the studio. Blues, teals, and greens — sometimes with a poppy yellow-green that shows up whether you planned for it or not.
Lori-vention
Magnets, velcro, resin, and whatever else removes the friction. Documentation in progress — there are more of these than you'd think.
Nothing here with that filter yet.
Why making matters
Paint pouring looks like art, but it's physics. The weight of the pigment, the chemicals you add to each color, the pour sequence — these all affect how gravity moves the fluid across the canvas. You're designing a system and then letting it run.
Craftventions are constraints problems. You have found materials, a functional need, and a standard of quality you're not willing to compromise on. The Pax Box needed to be beautiful, functional as a side table, secure against a determined cat, and self-illuminating. Those aren't competing goals once you stop treating them that way.
Lori-ventions are exactly what they sound like. A friction point exists. It's fixable. Here's the most elegant solution that will actually hold up.