You know those jokes end with the line, “I told you that story so I could tell you this one…”? Right. That was the last post. Sunday I spent meandering through ideas that hadn’t quite solidified, going through the motions, as it were, of working. Okay, I’m not quite being fair to myself here. I…
Category: artwork
Creative Progress, between projects.
We seem to have developed a routine to Saturdays that allows me some highly desirable time in which I am the only biped in the house. (Actually, that’s not strictly true, as sometimes Moss is around and he can get around almost as well on his two hind legs as he can on four.) So…
Process for “Women as Trees”
Because I’ve had a couple of emails about the techniques and process involved in creating these pieces, here’s a brief run-down on how they went together. They all started plain white fabric which was either left white or tea-dyed to give it a beige tinge. The fabric was torn to rough size and then ironed to freezer…
Process for “Women as Trees”
Because I’ve had a couple of emails about the techniques and process involved in creating these pieces, here’s a brief run-down on how they went together. They all started plain white fabric which was either left white or tea-dyed to give it a beige tinge. The fabric was torn to rough size and then ironed to freezer…
On the drawing board
It’s been a busy few days…. Working through the idea of women as trees (or trees as women, depending on your sympathies) a bit further yielded a plethora of results, some of which are worth sharing. The first is “Windswept” (18×10, wholecloth pen and ink on cotton with fabric paints). I haven’t embellished this at…
