What happens when I take some time off from work to stay home and work on art projects? Sadly, I go a bit nuts. As it turns out, mixing and stirring up a good dye bath for fabric involves the same set of skills as mixing up a good pot of soup. This is some [...]
Archive for the ‘Art Projects’ Category
A Surface Design Staycation
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged Broccoli Cheddar Soup, Thermofax Screen Printing Fabric, Tucson Fabric Dyeing on October 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Remedial Thermofax 101A
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged Thermofax Fabric Design on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, well, it takes a while to get the hang of using a “new” technology in your art, even if that new things is from circa 1956 (I’m talking about my thermofax machine). Today I make a quick drawing/shape of the local mountains–the Catalina Mountains–and I used pencil, because the more carbon in the drawing, [...]
And yet more baby steps…
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged Tucson Art Quilts on September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This week I managed to get some garden and art related chores done after work. It’s fall here in Arizona and temps next week will be in the 80s!!! Time to start the winter garden. I turned over my raised beds and added some potting soil… Here are my nicely turned over beds; these are [...]
Work Week Art Baby Steps
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged Silk/Paper Lamination Fabric, Thermal Copier Mesh Fabric on September 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When you have a day job, and you’re an artist, it’s all about being disciplined in taking baby steps to get things done. It is so bleeping frustrating–because any artist would rather go full hog into the art making rather than having to hack away at something for just an hour–but progress does happen with [...]
Miscellaneous Projects
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, my home improvements on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I managed to get a few things done this past week. Like start quilting this paper/silk lamination piece so I can then try and build a frame for it; it’s not easy to see the quilting design, but, it’s there: I also put up one of my pieces at my chiropractor’s office; I think it [...]
Thermofax Blooper
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, tagged Thermal Copiers for Fabric Design, Thermofax on September 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I picked up an old thermal copier a while back; once artifacts lingering in old public school Audio-Visual closets–next to the overhead projectors–these things are now in high demand by fiber artists (they make silk screens) and tattoo artists (for design stencils): I got mine on Craigslist for $200. For a very clear and lucid [...]
Post-Grasslands Adjustment
Posted in Art Projects, my home improvements on September 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been very tired this week; last weekend–closing down the Grasslands–was exhausting. I’ve been busy moving stuff around my house to accommodate the art and dry-goods I took from the bakery. For example, all my books were once on this wall… …but I moved them to this corner to make room for the art my [...]
Fabric Auditions
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, Fabric Dyeing, tagged Tucson hand-dyed fabric on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I dyed some fabric after work today; my goal was to get a good yellow for the border of the Desert Marigold quilt, and a good fuschia for the penstemon quilt. The penstemon fabric turned out better; this is what I think of as a good audition. The fabric on the left with the gray [...]
Presenting…My Newest Laminations
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged silk and paper lamination fabric on August 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Here are the finished silk/paper lamination collages: my camera flash reflects a bit of glare from the center of each piece. I use a matte gel medium for the lamination, but even a matte finish seems to generate some reflection. Now…time to piece on a border and quilt. But I’m going to have to dye [...]
Silk Scrub-a-thon
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged silk and paper lamination fabric on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I laminated the collages it’s taken me all summer to make. Clearly, the long, hot days really got to me this year! Here are the Desert Marigold and Penstemon collages, with silk organza pinned very tightly on top. I silk-screened each piece with acrylic gel medium. You can see pics of this process elsewhere [...]
