While in the studio today, I was thinking about what to post in this blog and finding myself looking forward to it! Normally I'd be dreading what I could write about...now I'm excited by what I've done - not much this week.
Let's see...we had a snow storm...and I forgot to take the pretty pictures!
Then a day without power, although I did a Zoom call using the hotspot on my husbands cell phone - not great, but it got done!
So just a couple days in the studio - trying things out, experimenting and testing!
First I prepped some tubes for shibori dyeing ... and no, I did not drink all of that!
and did a couple of colours....I have a mostly unused lamp that is good for drying the tubes. The fabric will have at least one more dye bath but they have to dry in between.
Then I painted some papers, getting ready to make some vessels for an upcoming show. Lots of ink and using masking fluid for lighter lines.
The papers were combined with dyed silk into a vessel, a whole new learning curve! I searched on YouTube for paper bowls but didn't find what I wanted, eventually I looked for potters cutting clay slabs into different forms and tried out one shape, similar to a Maltese Cross! I found a few other shapes by the same potter that I'm excited to try!
The corners are cut out and then the edges are overlapped and stitched in place.
The bowl is very light and delicate and provides an interesting form - well worth further explorations!
I also had a FaceTime art session with my granddaughter - do you like my puppy?
I had taken the black and white piece home (mentioned in my last blog post) and was excited to start working on some cross stitches in heavy black and white thread. After half a dozen stitches I realized that it wasn't what I wanted - darn!
So with a small square as a test piece, I stitched straight lines with invisible thread - didn't like the look of that!
I pulled out some variegated black/grey thread which turned out okay but I preferred the black/grey twist (both are poly threads) and by playing a bit I found I liked the diagonal lines that cross each other at an angle - sort of diamond shapes but the parallel lines are irregularly spaced. It's going to be a LOT of stitching!
I want to test out the markers and see if they'll come out with water - the fabric had matte medium or gesso applied and I'm not sure if they'll be easy to remove!
And I revived the sourdough starter that had been at the back of the fridge for a very long time...I think this looks good!
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I do like that vessel very much. It looks very sophisticated.
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