Making Things in December #14: Cans

For day 14 of making something every day in December, I started an art project involving cutting and painting a bunch of aluminum cans. It doesn’t look like much right now:

I’ve done some projects like this in the past, to give you a bit of context:

I have a bunch of left over paint samples for when we painted our house, and everyone in our house/office works through a ton of La Croix, so I’m confident I’ll have plenty of raw materials to work with. In any case, it’s been fun to start doing some more physical art.

Making things in December timeline:

• Day 1: recorded new song
• Day 2: wrote blog post called Music and Web Design
• Day 3: assembled a jeweler’s bench and recorded a Chaka Khan song
• Day 4: animated atom SVG
• Day 5: jamming with Ian
• Day 6: wrote blog post called Doing It Right
• Day 7: animated border Codepen
• Day 8: decorated a Christmas tree
• Day 9: wrote blog post called Level of Effort
• Day 10: coffee doodle
• Day 11: lunchtime jam with Ian
• Day 12: making progress on a song
• Day 13: cookie party!
• Day 14: cans