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Thursday, May 27, 2004

 
2:58 PM: art is love [#] [0]

finally.... finished... rob & kyrie's wedding present...... *yawns*

interesting things about this calligraphy project:
total of 23.75 man hours:

it took me about 15 minutes apiece to line and calligraph each of the poem's lines, for a total of 5 hours;
30 minutes to line and number them;
30 minutes to sign each of the tents
30 minutes to erase all the pencil lines (except for the lining around the numbers because it was so charming!)
1 hour to add eyelets;
1 hour to add ribbons (ooooo, and by this time i was grumpy);
45 minutes to wrap the additional present i can't talk about yet in case they're reading the blog (ha!)
(gl.: 9.25 hours)

sven put 10 hours in measuring, cutting, drilling and assembling the table tents;
another 1 hour to carve the linoleum block for the stamp;
30 minutes hour to cut the circle the stamp would go on
1 hour to stamp;
1.5 hours to create the additional present we can't talk about yet
(sven: 14 hours)

plus another 30 minutes to document and take photos, in part because i didn't buy enough materials for even one extra tent (duh! what was i thinking?).

we may be underestimating this a bit, and none of these hours take into account the number of hours to conceptualize, plan, buy, or agonize over materials. nor does it take into account any of the false starts and stops inherent in a process like this. that probably close to doubles our time.

you might have noticed sven's hours were actually more than mine! sven has been amazing, truly above and beyond. i've never had someone who wanted to work with me on something like this, and i was amazed at how great having a collaborator was, especially since he likes doing the things i hate, like measuring. :D plus, he has great attention to detail. this may be one of the best wedding gifts ever given to anyone, ever, if i may indulge in a slight bit of hyperbole.

(btw, arches text wove combined with this random orange ink and a 1.5 tape nib has been the best combination ever. there's been no fighting with the materials for this project at all, which is really unusual. unfortunately, the maxim about using good (i.e. expensive) paper to practice on might in fact be true. and how did i ever live without an ames lettering guide? and my first introduction to fabric depot was a successful one, even if the ribbons gave me fits when i tried to add them to the pieces.)