Grand­son Oliver (age 5) and I are cre­at­ing tat­toos today. At least that’s what he calls them. We’re scan­ning old doc­u­ments, print­ing the scan on a laser printer, cov­er­ing the printed piece of paper with clear con­tact paper, and then — we use the han­dle of a spat­ula to rub and rub the ink into the con­tact paper. Then! We soak the whole thing in warm water.

Then we rub the paper off and *VOILA*! We have the ink trans­ferred to the con­tact paper and we put the whole shee­bang onto a piece of glass. We’re going to cre­ate a series of pan­els for the back door glass. It’ll be boy-​awesome.

Now, back to real artwork.

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