Wow! This episode is really late because Katie went out of town over the weekend and completely forgot to finish posting it for you. Sorry about that. We are going to get right to it so you don’t have to wait a single second longer than is necessary. This week The Gal’s talk about rust and how super effing cool it is! It took a while to convince Loni that she was not going to get lock jaw from touching rusty items but eventually she decided it was safe enough.

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We have a lot of links for you today… links to cool things!

This is the article about the properties of different metals Katie reference; it is full of interesting facts!

http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/learn-about-metals-science-teaching-tip

Friend of the show, Lisa Vollrath did some experimenting with rust over on her Go Make Something blog. You need to check that out because she also has several other articles about making and using rust. Go read The Rust Guide and below that you will see links to related articles.

http://gomakesomething.com/ht/age/rust-guide/

The Artfully Musing blog has a wonderful article about using Modern Masters Metal Effects metal paints and rusting agents to do beautiful things with rust on surfaces you wouldn’t normally be able to rust. You can read about that and get some good ideas here. http://artfullymusing.blogspot.com/2011/08/tutorial-how-to-rust-just-about-any.html

Blick also carries a product called Instant Iron and Rust that is a metal paint and rusting agent. You can get that here. http://www.dickblick.com/products/instant-iron-and-instant-rust/

The Gals are eager to hear about your experiments! You can tell them about the neat stuff you do with rust by emailing them at twoartsygals@gmail.com OR calling and leaving a message at 503-395-7190. Follow us on all the social medias! You can click those handy little buttons in the side bar to the right to find Two Artsy Gals on your favorite social media platform/s. Subscribe to us on iTunes, Stitcher, and now the new PodOmatic mobile app so you will have fresh episodes in your ear holes as soon as they are available.

Next week (which is actually this week now because this episode posted late) Loni and Katie are going to do our first on location interview with our new digital recorder so we can interview an amazing fiber artist who will blow your minds! So until then… make some cool shit, yo!