Tuesday, February 17, 2015

The Printed Fabric Bee....Not So Late!

I'm catching up now to everyone else and getting ready to do my fabric for this month!
But now, I've got a series of photos to walk you through the latest one I've completed, for January! So the theme for January was turquoise and orange colours with Petroglyphs as the image theme. Well, since I live in the Pacific Northwest I decided to use art for this area and found a wonderful richness of images left behind by ancient people....check out this website: http://www.gabriolamuseum.org/petroglyphs.shtml
So here's how it happened....I found some fabric that was turquoise and purple and then forgot I had it...so overdyed some blue and got a nice mottled turquoise.


I remembered just the perfect stamp for a border image and when I found it, it had broken....so I carved another one....

Then I made four separate Thermofax images to use from the Petroglyphs. First there was the "Salmon", printed in a salmon-y red colour .....


Then came the "Killer Whale"...... chasing the Salmon!


And then "Dancing Man" and "Bear"


Now you can see the entire layout. I had fun, learned something about the culture of my local area and created some cool fabric!

2 comments:

Lynda said...

Susan, Cool! Can't wait to see it in person!

Carol R. Eaton Designs said...

Love this! What a great story!