Crow Stamp

Carving stamps again, this one is 4x6 inches, the next one will have feather and wing features.

Compost Dyeing and Other Fermentation Dyeing eBook!!!

If you purchased a copy of my eBook "Compost Dyeing and Other Fermentation Dyeing Techniques" last year through Kindle and it is corrupted please let me know and I will send you a replacement copy!

This eBook is Currently ON SALE

for $3.99

On My Desk

Working late tonight.

Birds and More

Getting ready for my Open Studio, for Art Crawl Iowa, in October. 
Ink on watercolor paper.

And then some down time with some hand carved and mounted stamps.

Ink on watercolor paper.

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Before - See the media trays on both sides of the table?  Well Oliver noticed them as well, turns out he has expensive tastes loves those soft paint brushes and those spendy colored pencils.  Sooooo...

Hubs made me a shelf last night, out of mdf, for my media trays and other supplies.  One of the perks was a spot for my sketch books on each shelf, now they are close at hand.  The biggest perk is having a larger work area and a spot at the left hand of my table for my large sketch books!

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A View from My Porch and Corn Head Girl in Orange
Watercolor, pen, ink, on mixed media papers.

WIP - Dream Land

Dreamland in progress!

More carved stamps for my Dream Land series.

Black Birds in Tree Now Available!!!

I'm so excited to announce that my stencils are now available through StencilGirl Products!!!
 

The stencil is available as an inverse of the design and also as a traditional cut out.

 

Black Birds in Tree Inverse with Lilac and Ecualyptus Tsukineko Inks.

This page is the result of brayering a sheet of clean paper onto the Inverse stencil while it was wet with alcohol inks.

 

Oliver and Transport Update

John with our new pup Oliver!  He arrived last night late around midnight and was super excited to be here, at first he was kinda scared but when he saw Angel (our sheltie) he became a bundle of quivering excitement!

The gal who rescued Oliver paid for his transport up here to Iowa, and to which I have to say thank heavens because we raised about $75 for the transport which wasn't anywhere near what it cost to ship him here, some $1100 later!  So the money I raised will be put aside for his first visit to our vet at the end of the month!  He's up to date on all of his shots but will be needing his next heartworm treatment, and he's also intact so we will be discussing with the vet when the appropriate time will be for  having him neutered. 

We decided to name him Oliver, it was Junior, and he responds to it already!

WIP's Corn 2013

Corn No. 1

Corn No. 2

Corn No. 3

Natural dyed cotton fabrics, timtex, machine stitching, aurifil threads.