Inspiration

Moolicious!

Harvest

Bailed corn stalks.

Inspiration 060412

WIP - Corn No.'s 51 and 52

Corn No. 51 (That was then.)

Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) ~ It has been awhile since I've worked in the horizontal plane. Right now I'm taking a break from the sewing machine so I my eyes can relax a bit.

WIP- Bins

Charcoal on gesso on baltic birch plywood.

This is the second time I've tried painting over charcoal, ok I'm using a brush to paint with, and I have to admit I absolutely loathe it!  First off I find myself wanting to paint 'inside' the lines like a coloring book, mistake number one, and secondly I keep expecting my brush to respond like my palette knife and well we all know that's not going to happen, mistake number two.  So when the first coat of paint is done drying I'm planning to go at it again with my palette knife and this time ignore those line!

Acrylic on baltic birch plywood.

Corn No.'s 45, 46, and 47 - Framed

No. 47 - SOLD!!! - $250.00
Framed to 8x8x2 inches.

Corn No. 46 - SOLD - $250.00
Framed to 8x8x2 inches

Corn No. 45 - SOLD - $250.00

Framed to 8x8x2 inches

No. 45 Redux

Corn No. 45 - Redux, I didn't like the original grain bin so I undid some of the stitching and turned it into a short fat silo, I'm much happier now!

No. 47

Corn No. 47 - not quite finished with this one, I'm not happy with the stitching to the left of the large bin.

No. 46

Corn No. 46

WIP - Granary 040212

My goal is to finish this piece this week!

What to do redux!

All ripped out!

I'm much happier now, I should have ripped everything out several months ago!!!

New Harvest Pieces - WIP

Two almost done four more to go!

What to do???

I started picking the flowers off and am now debating removing the corn as well, it's flat and does nothing for me.  An option would be to hand couch some more yarns onto the piece to make it more dimensional... or maybe not.

Solo Show Installed

For some reason I forgot to take a photo of the entire display, will try to remember to do so when I take the show down the end of January 2012.  Over all I'm very happy with the way the pieces look, I have to give credit to Diane Hall for hanging the pieces, I would have hung them in a straigh line and well that's boring!

Rivers and Trees Solo Show

And decided to take my three Wild Flower pieces along with since there will be extra space in the display case at the education center.

Iowa - Inspiration at 55 mph!

Iowa - Inspiration at 55 mph!  Whenever I'm not driving I like to take advantage of the situation by snapping tons of photos, photos that are in motion.  Every once in awhile I make a squealing noise indicating I really want to stop and take more photos of whatever that has captured my attention at that moment, but by and large images taken at 55mph intrigue me!

Prairie No. 11

Prairie No. 11 - 2010

Natural Dyed, Compost Dyed, and Rust Dyed Cotton Fabric.

Machine Stitched. Mounted to canvas on stretcher bars.

16x24 inches

Prairie Bits and Pieces - Now Available

Bin No. 1

Bin No. 2

Bin No. 3

Silo No. 1

Silo No. 2

1.5x2 inches

Natural and Compost Dyed Fabrics, Timtex, Thread, Machine Embroidered

Now Available in my Shop

Mono printing

I over printed yesterday's reverse print, which didn't turn out so well the print looks really good with color coming from behind, though if I were to do it again I'd make the top print more saturated.

This last one is my favorite out of the bunck, even if it is a little crooked on the paper. The object in the background to the right is a windmill, they are springing up all over the rural landscape here so it's only natural I would incorporate them in my work. ;-)

WIP

Trying to depict wheat field behind the grain bins, I've been biting off the temptation to paint the bins black!