Alcohol Ink Experimentation continues

 Having finally mostly recovered from my sinus infection, I've been back in the studio this last week.  I'm doing some color palette pieces and playing with different ways to move the colors around which has all been a lot of fun.

Each day, I did a different color.  So far, I have red, orange/yellow, blue, green and a second green on different paper.  Here's most of the colors at once.

Here's the 2 greens next to each other.  The small one is on an 8x5 piece of Yupo and the larger is the back of a piece of photo paper.

The yupo paper had better movement and layering to my eye.  

And finally, here's my new wall rack for my alcohol inks.  I could not pass up the tree with all the birds.  The shelves are deep enough that I can put the concentrated ink in the front and the bottle of diluted color behind it.  

Next week, I'll do a similar set of colors on glass and see about printing them on fabric to sell in my etsy store.  I've gotten a fair number of comments about the colors & the blending being great from my quilter friends so this seems like an obvious progression.

Electric Vehicle battery breakthrough coming soon

 From Grist.org, we have wonderful news about new batteries for EVs that can recharge completely in 5-10 minutes.  Current in-use technology takes several hours.  This breakthrough means that gas stations could add charging stations and by the time everyone goes to the bathroom and picks up some snacks, the batteries are all charged up for another 250 miles of road trip.  Woohoo!

Read the whole article here.  The optimistic estimate is 3 years for making it into available vehicles.  The pessimistic one is 5 years.  So, coming soon to a car near you.