AT-AT goes Warhol - DIY Star Wars Linocut Print

         
Jeez, this post has been in draft for ages. Finally getting some free time to vitalize the blog again!
I made these AT-AT prints a while ago and put them together as a Warhol like painting for a dear colleague of mine. And this is how I made it.
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Menno, dieser Post war so lange in meinen Entwürfen. Endlich hab ich ein wenig mehr Zeit um den Blog wiederzubeleben.
Die AT-AT prints habe ich vor einer Weile erstellt und sie dann zu einem Warhol ähnlichen Gemälde zusammengebracht für einen sehr lieben Kollegen. Und so ist es entstanden:


The linoleum is actually from when our offices were redone at work. There was a bunch leftover, so I took some to make lino prints. I had the lino tools from making our Save The Date wedding stamp and we had just watched the LEGO movie, so I had to make a LEGO spaceman and the AT-AT.
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Das Linoleum ist tatsächlich aus meinem Büro auf Arbeit als die Böden erneuert wurden. Es war so viel davon übrig geblieben, dasss ich ein paar Reste für Linolschnitte mitgenommen habe. Das Werkzeug dafür hatte ich noch von dem Save The Date Hochzeitsstempel und wir hatten grad den LEGO Film geschaut,. dass ich einen LEGO Raumfahrer und den AT-AT geschnitzt habe.

          
Many print tries later I had a bunch of more or less nice lino prints that were ready to be made into a picture. I put them on a big piece of paper and into a recently thrifted picture frame, but the paint had made the paper very crinkly and it just wasn't working right.
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Einige Druckversuche später hatte ich einige mehr oder wenig anschauliche Linoldrucke, die bereit waren zu einem Bild zusammengebracht zu werden. Ich hab die Bilder auf einen großes Blatt Papier geklebt und in einen kürzlich vorher Second Hand erworbenen Rahmen platziert, aber die Farbe hatte die Blätter so stark Wellen schlagen lassen, dass es einfach nicht richtig aussah.



So I got out the watercolor paint and smothered the whole painting with lots of water and a bluegreen paint that matched the AT-ATs and flattened it out while drying with out heavy toolboxes.
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Also hab ich die Wasserfarben rausgeholt und das ganze Bild mit Wasser getränkt in einer blaugrünen Farbe passend zu den AT-ATs. Platt und trocken gemacht wurde das ganze dann mit Hilfe unserer schweren Werkzeugkisten.

And it's done! Well, it was done, a couple of years ago now ;) May the Force be with you nerdy Nerds <3 And Merry Christmas, happy Hannukah & a joyous Kwanzaa. Happy Holidays everyone!
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Zack fertig! Nun ja, fertig war es schon vor einigen Jahren ;) Möge die Macht mit euch sein, ihr nerdy Nerds <3
Und frohe Weihnachten, schönes Chanukka & ein wunderbares Kwanzaa. Frohe Feuertage euch allen!

Picturesque Month 08'&09'&10'17

~ My favorite (Murder) Mug! Stay sexy and don't get murdered & dehydrated with my MFM DIY's.
~ Speaking of dehydrated. It's been way too long since my last wine-soaked girls night.
~ Also don't forget to stay hydrated during crafting. Drinking out of my new fancy wine glasses helps.

~ Fancy wine glass with fancy breakfast watching silly tv cartoons. Stay squanchy!
~ Birthday Dinner with the Birthday husband. We had delicious Korean food.

~ Made homemade butterbeer for a magical movie night: We watched Fantastic Beasts and where to find them!
~ Got this awesome old globe at the fleamarket for only 5€. The husband wants to turn it into a bar.
~ My dear friend Sonja just had a baby and we threw her a surprise baby party. I made her this cute mushroom plush music box as a gift.

~ Loving my new art prints of Harry Potter inspired Herbology by Zentaurius. They found a nice spot on our craft room wall next to my new Aloe plant.
~ Got some new nerdy swag. Every couple of months we get to raid the Bravado storage where they sell all the sample clothes.
~ Went to play our very first VR Exit Game, it was very cool, but the equipment is pretty bulky and wearing glasses didn't help much with the huge goggles you have to wear. It's the first game I couldn't finish, because it was really tricky in the end.

Year 3 of Pure & Crafted Festival fun with my dear Lu. We had a blast as expected and it was a close to perfect festival experience with friends and drinks and sun.
Of course we had to go see the amazing feller's at the Motodrom again. It's a thrill every time!

~ Saw Bill Murray live at our annual sales convention Universal Inside. Such a charmer!
~ Gregory Porter also made an appearance and sang the Nat Kind Cole classic "Smile" for us.
Other guests at this year's convention were Benny Anderson (ABBA), The Kelly Family, Lang Lang, Jared Leto, David Garrett & Wanda.
~ As usual it was an afterparty to be remembered. Even though I should have left a little earlier due to a terrible cold...

In the same week as the Universal Inside the Preis für Popkultur took place, which is an alternative to the german Grammys, the Echo. Instead of just rewarding the bestsellers, the artists and projects are nominated and voted for by music industry people like myself. The finaly vote goes to a jury, so the winners are a secret until the show itself. It was a great show and I really hope this will replace the Echo eventually.

~ Sadly my collection of music festival bracelets didn't grow any more after the Preis für Popkultur because my cold was getting so bad that I canceled going to Lollapalooza.
~ Fall is here! Acorns always remind me of my favorite Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his adventures.
~ Visited the Kawaii Festival, organized by one of my favorite german Youtubers Breedingunicorns. They had all kinds of japanese goodies and since I'm a huge Matcha Fan I got all of the green tea snacks including an intense but delicious Matcha cheesecake.

~ Got invited to the Fellowes on the Move blogger event by Viking where we learned about Ergonomics and how to stay healthy at the workplace. Fellowes showed us their Sit/Stand desk solutions, which are great if you sit in an office all day like myself.
~ What's most important about staying healthy is what you put into your body! That's why we got treated to some fresh green smoothies.
~ Of course you  have to treat your body inside and out. Got a super relaxing back massage (can all blogger events please come with a personal masseur?) and then we had a personal trainer show us a few easy excercises that can help after a long day of sitting at work.

Went to my first Reeperbahnfestival! It was so awesome and I learned so much. Really makes me appreciate working in such a creative industry and getting to know so many cool people through the years. So grateful for the chance to educate myself and possibly further my career in the music industry.

~ My highlight of the musical part of the festival: Faber. This young swiss guy really knows how to play a live show and make a lady's netherregions all tingly ;)

~ Another highlight was Beth Ditto. We barely made it into this one, but it was definitely worth it. What a woman!

~ Got to be at Max Raabe's album prelistening event. Free champagne at Soho House.. that says it all!

~ Another concert highlight this year: Lorde! Her performance was spectacular. 

~ I remember seeing her at Clärchens Ballhaus 4 years ago when her fist album got released and she hasn't lost any of the charm and energy she had back then.

~ Charles Pasi, a french gentleman with a gentle voice singing jazz, blues and a little bit of rock'n'roll.

~ Faber again. Can't blame me, can you?

~ Siegfried & Joy, a hillarious magical duo. Very entertaining, but I've seen better magic ;)

~ Skinny Lister, shanty punk galore!

~ Pumpkin Spice Matcha Latte to celebrate fall.

~ Got myself the Buffy comic omnibus. I started the 8th season a while ago, but never finished, so I'm excited to see how the story continues.

~ Got a little crafty one night and made some geeky accessoires with LEGOs, melting beads and a bat cocktail pin.

And thus we enter Halloween time, the most wonderful time of the year:

~ Made these cute decorative bats from craft foam.

~ Have you seen my Jack O'Lantern Vegan Pumpkin Quiche yet? It was delicious! And spooky. What else could you want from a quiche?

~ It's the eyeeeeeeees of the Pumpkin. Dum dada dum dada dum...

~ Finally got to test out the Basic Bitch Carving Kit from my favorite Youtubers Threadbanger.

~ I never get why people don't use the meat of Halloween pumpkins. It's still a vegetable! That means you can eat it...

~ Yes, I'm a design victim. 

~ My last minute Halloween costume: Anna von Schlotterstein (Der kleine Vampir/ The little Vampire). Had a little Halloween Get-Together with my girls. We even made a fire! Too bad we didn't get any trick or treaters.

~ Muahahahahahaaa.. evil pumpkin!

~ Sooo, there's a reason things have been a little more quiet than ususal on here. It's because we took on a new diy project. A big one. Like diy for life. It's a house! 

Check it out:

Yeah... it's official. We got a house! And it's in need of a lot of work. It's been crazy gettting started these past two months and we're not even close to moving in. I'm not sure how I will show you the process of fixing this house, but I will figure it out along the way. I was thinking of a new blog series called 'OMG We Got A House' (inspired by the OMG We Bought A House series by Mr. Kate). 

Exciting times for sure :D