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"imagine" created with Timtex,foiling,Mistyfuse,grungeboard letters and paint. It has a wonderfully iridescent surface due to an underlayer of foiling on the timtex surface that was applied before painting. It is 5”x7” and ready for matting and framing. "imagine"is my donation for the Hearts for Anna"fund raiser to help raise [...] The other day I came across a stash of tissue paper surfaces that I had made a while back and then put away to work on later so I decided to turn them into journals: These journals are now in my etsy shop. and I've started experimenting a bit with writing on fabric [...] It seems like it's been forever since I added any new fabric journals to my etsy shop so this past week I made up some new ones: the ones in the back are all silks and from left to right on the bottom are a linen one,a purchased cotton one and a [...] In my last post I mentioned that I was taking Martha Lever's Calligra-fun online class so I thought I'd share some of the practice samples I've made. Now keep in mind that the class just started a few days ago and up until now the only person who was able to read my handwriting is [...] that I spent this afternoon in the studio making a box. You see,Terri sent me a link to Martha Lever's blog . Martha does the coolest lettering and calligraphy work which is something that I've always wanted to learn but have not had a lot of luck teaching myself. Well I saw that Martha [...] Some recent soy wax batik results: A silk scarf: and another one:
and a couple pieces of cotton:
and for these pieces I was experimenting with getting a crackled look:
[...] I know it's been a while since I've posted! I've been working on several different things and I hope to have some photos to share at some point this week but in the meantime I wanted to let you all know about my fall teaching schedule at the Danforth Museum. Here's the line up of [...] The other day when I had the dye supplies out I took the opportunity to add a couple of silk velvet scarves to the dye baths… Love the richness of this blue one: And this next one I did by just squirting random colors on the scarf and then let it bake for [...] I have long admired the work of Virginia Spiegel and Karen Stiehl Osborn and their gift for working in series. I have often thought about starting a series of work myself but something always seemed to hold me back. Sometimes it was that the timing was not right,or the subject idea didn't seem to [...] On Friday of last week I took all the newsprint that I used to iron the wax off the fabrics I had batik'd over the last several weeks out on the deck and painted them all using some Dye-Na-Flow paint: I had a huge stack to work with. I've been using some plain newsprint [...] |     It's easy to make your own Silk screens using the sun with PhotoEZ Sheets from EZScreenPrint!Use the offer code SUE10 at checkout to get 10% off your order! Get all the details"here"   | ||
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