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I started with one strip of fabric and…

one strip led to another,led to another and so on and so on…

and this is where I ended up with all of them. Right now this is about 44″x 88″give or take a few inches and it’s all done with my hand dyed sandwashed cotton (yup,I even dyed the [...]

Color Magnet

A couple of weeks ago I was browsing the Dharma Trading website and I came across this product:

It’s called Color Magnet by Jacquard and it’s a product that attracts dye so when its applied to a piece of fabric you get a tone on tone effect. I was intrigued so I bought some [...]

new work

“transition”

36″x 24″hand painted silk

mounted on stretcher bars

echo triptych

 

“echo of my soul”

hand painted silk triptych –each 12″x 30″x 1″

(please click the image for a larger view)

stillness

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“stillness”

24″x 60″hand painted silk

taking the slow road to art making…

I know it seems that I haven’t posted any new work lately and there’s a reason for that. It used to be that I’d get an idea and I’d jot down a couple of quick notes and then I’d dive right into a frenzy of fusing,cutting,painting and stitching and in no time at [...]

texture reveal

Today is the reveal day for the last Fiberactions challenge word. The word was texture which was an easy one for me to work with…

“continuity”

18″x 24″

Materials used:silk,cotton,fluid acrylics,rayon floss,Mistyfuse,textile foil

detail view:

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what’s going on…

I haven’t been a very good blogger the last month or two and I’m going to make a serious effort to change that now that summer has come to an unofficial end with the passing of Labor Day Weekend. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to blog about,just been too distracted to sit [...]

resisting with friends

One of the best things about my new studio is having enough room to have my friends over for open studio days. Last week we got together and broke out the soy wax to do some batik…

Sue jumped right in and starting stamping on her fabric. Here she is working with one of my [...]

3 vessels3 vessels

"3 sides to every story"

Three 3 sided vessels in 3 sizes representing the three sides to every story –yours,mine and reality.

Vessel 1 –18″tall

Vessel 2 –14″tall

Vessel 3 –11″tall

Materials used:silk,paint,Mistyfuse [...]