I’ve been working 18 hour days for the past week, and I love every minute. Even I am doubting my sanity since I’m working outside in this heat wave, but I’d rather it be too hot than cold, especially since I’ve been soaked to my knees just about every day. Besides, everything is drying very fast which mean I can over dye and print on the same day. Even the dogs abandoned me and went inside. I’ve run through 30 yards of Kona muslin, lost track of how many balls of yarn I’ve dyed and painted, and finished about 60 sheets of paper. I vat dyed some in a great grape purple and the others are post dyed with fiber reactives. I’m also experimenting with using block prints on my silk screens. The effect is particularly good when I screen an image and then add more of the images in acrylics with he block. Still more to go before the summer ends and Portland Art and Soul, but this is my favorite kind of work. Cindy’s brilliant new travel loom is a joy to use, and we won’t have to cart as much stuff around because it has the stand built into it. I’m going to build myself a couple of them in copper so I can work bigger. Cindy is a marvel.
Printing, dying and paper making
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July 10, 2010 at 1:29 pm |
you really have been blogging and working. I saw on the art and soul yuahoo group that they are reviewing proposals next week and decisions should be made by e/o month. I’ll keep my fingers crossed. Hope the baby comes not too soon!