gocco

back in early March I bought a print gocco. While I waited for it to arrive, I tried (and I mean really tried) to draw something that would be worth printing. Guess what, I drew a complete blank. So in the end I packed the gocco kit up and put it away.

Well today, feeling inspired by a crisp winter morning and a walk through crunchy leaves, I got the gocco kit out again. It's unpacked and on the kitchen table waiting for inspiration...

print gocco

One of my 2009 goals was to try gocco printing. I've finally found a print gocco kit on ebay that didn't cost me a fortune. Luckily this kit is ex Australia so postage is more affordable. Most of the second hand kits ex Japan charge crippling postage charges of nearly $70-$80 US to ship to New Zealand. The current USD=NZD exchange rate is terrible at around 49c/50c US for $1 NZD. Not very encouraging for us Kiwis. So I used up the last of my US currency in my Paypal account buying up gocco supplies to keep me going for a while.

The kit and supplies are due to arrive within the week. So while I'm waiting, I'm drawing some designs for cards and checking out some tutorials, like celestefrittata and visiting the gocco flickr group plus getting stuck into cutting out my A+O pants.