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geometric fabric collages &painted silk surfacesgeometric fabric collages &painted silk surfaces

I’ve been wanting to do some smaller geometric fabric collages and I finally got some space on the worktable cleared off to work on a few. All of these are mounted on museum grade,100% archival 8 ply rag board this artwork is ready for framing. Outer dimensions measure 9″x12″with a 5″square off-center [...]

and the studio floor guess winner is...and the studio floor guess winner is….

chosen by random draw from all the correct answers to this post:

JUDI!

Judi guessed correctly that my choice for my studio floor would be cork. Why did I choose cork? Well I want my studio to be as environmentally friendly as it can and cork met all my requirements. There’s some great information on [...]

mixed media collage...mixed media collage…

I put the finishing touches on this fiber collage yesterday:

Mixed media collage –hand painted silk,lokta paper,silk wrapped washers,hand stitched 19"x30"

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SAQA auction begins today!SAQA auction begins today!

The annual 12″square SAQA auction begins today. All the quilts on pages 1A and 1B are up for auction this week and you can details on how the auction works and how to place your bid here. I donated this quilt for the auction this year:

Centrifugal Force

and Terri donated [...]

my new favorite paintsmy new favorite paints

Earlier this year in a class at Pro Chemical &dye (read about that here) I got the chance to work with their PRObrite Pearlescent line of paints. Available in a wide variety of colors these paints are my new favorite go to paint in my studio.

These metallic paints contain no metals so [...]

who said computers make life easier?who said computers make life easier?

Because I’ll tell you,it hasn’t felt like that lately! My laptop died expectantly last week. I was in the middle of doing something when some of the keys stopped working,the screen went blank and it started emitting a high pitched beep and then nothing. So I had to get a new one which [...]

what's going on...what’s going on…

around here? well I’ve been in the studio working on that project that I mentioned in my last post. No pictures of that just yet –maybe next week when I get a little further along on the project.

I’ve got a new book review written of Gwen Diehn’s new book:

You can read [...]

My class with Jane DunnewoldMy class with Jane Dunnewold

Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to take a class with Jane Dunnewold at Pro Chemical &Dye in Fall River MA. I’ve been following and admiring Jane’s work for a lot of years now and so when I saw that she was going to be in my area (well a little [...]

grungeboard journals,kits &the sketchbook projectgrungeboard journals,kits &the sketchbook project

Since I had the grungeboard bin out I decided to make a couple more journals:

Both of these are in my etsy shop here. I got a lot of emails about the one I blogged about in my previous post asking if this journal was part of one of my online classes. Unfortunately it is [...]

stopping to smell the peonies

I know I haven’t posted much lately and I don’t think that’s a trend that will be stopping anytime soon. Now that spring/summer weather is here I’m finding it harder and harder to spend time indoors. But I did find some time to dye up 10 yards of sandwashed cotton that I got a few [...]