WIP Dusk at the Marsh

I am working on a stitched story piece about one of my favorite local marshes and my stencil Black Birds in Tree are the main focus in this new series.  The marshes, Cooper's Marsh & Larson's Marsh, which is just a few miles east of Ames, Iowa, are surrounded by farmland.  

Seta Color Fabric paint on cotton fabric, I painted this fabric using a salt technique sometime around 2004/05. The orange piece is a non-slip gripping pad that holds the fabric in place while I surface the fabric.

I should be able to get four smaller pieces out of the larger piece of fabric, the piece directly above this photo.

For the purple stenciled areas I'm using Galleria thick body paint as it is less inclined to bleed. I applied the paint using a stencil brush and very thin layers of paint building the image up onto the fabric, why yes my hand is sore now!

Finished, the stencil did stick to the fabric, where it came into contact with the wet paint that soon dried.

I have to admit this is my all time favorite stencil in my series!  I will probably leave this particular piece of fabric as is for the moment and work on the other three pieces.  I am toying with using my inverse stencil on one of the pieces, more to come!

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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.

 

Oooh Stencils

 

Yesterday something absolutely wonderful arrived in the mail for my approval, my sample stencil from one of my own designs "Birds in Tree"!  I've been playing with it ever since it arrived, and of course the inevitable wait time for layers of gesso to dry had to be endured, but over all I'm having a blast this afternoon!

 

More layer as these two layers should be dry and ready for the next several processes, which includes some ink/pen techniques and then more layering.  I see some numbers and text in this piece as well. 

 

Tomorrow I will have some fabric samples to show and tell. 

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Pink Crow - Coming soon... it's been a steep learning curve, coming this far with digital technology, but it's been worth every hair I've pulled out along the way!!! 

Journal page from 2010

Journal and fabric page form 2010

WIP - 022213

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Shop Rags

I have started giving John fat quarters whenever he stains or paints a new frame for me, the marks that are left behind are quite interesting and definately have some potential.

My shop rags aren't so bad either, these need a little bit more abuse and they will be ready for stitching.

Now to just find some time to paint and dye fabric.

Lost and Found

Am looking through my stash of fabrics for a missing spool of thread, it's still missing, but I'm finding some yummies that are in need of pressing and stitching!  These pieces are from 2000-2002

Now that I'm into a new body of work based on my favorite marsh the ideas are starting to flow again.

 

I also found a few pieces for my "sandstone" series hiding in my stash of fabrics.

 

And maybe even a few new "Blood River Canyon" pieces.

 

WIP - Hands

More hand prints.  It is sooooooo unbelievably hot and dry here, normally we have a humidity level around 50% or higher this time of year, which is causing problems with drying times.  Problems as in everything is drying within minutes, sometimes seconds, making it difficult to work the cloth.

One Work Many Views

A FB friend asked me if I was viewing a WIP from multiple directions, as from the one direction it looked like an old ship.  Yes, and I almost always photograph them in different directions especially when I'm experimenting with different layers as I tend to forget what I did previously.

Organizing

Still working on getting my desktop organized, but with the help of my neighbor, I was able to get some of the computer issues resolved, one of them was replacing the network card and adding more RAM to the machine, the best part was  the addition of the second workstation moniter.  The new addition is already making video editing much nicer, ditto on writing in InDesign.

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