Corn No. 51 - On it's Way

Corn. No. 51
Matted and Framed. Finished to 11x14x2 inches.

WIP - Untitled Corn

Experimenting with different thread colors and thicknesses.
4x6ish inches. Natural dyed cotton fabric.

New Work Coming Soon!

Digitally printed silk organza overlaying a piece of logwood purple dyed silk organza, the small red strip of fabric on top is madder lac dyed silk organza net.

Sample

Silk crepe de chine with screen and mono printed with natural dye extracts.

WIP - Untitled

Work In Progress from sometime around 2002. 
Natural Dyed Silk and Cotton Fabrics.  Natural Dyed Silk Cocoons.  Indigo Dyed Cotton Fabric. Machine and Hand Stitched.

WIP - Big Blue Stem

Here it is hanging vertically, I started this piece many moons ago, as in like sometime around 1999 many moons ago! 

This piece has always bothered me, there's a thread over on the Quilt Art list about cutting up a piece.  Well I've been tempted to cut the dark side of this quilt off for some 12 years now!  Now that I have Adobe CS 6 I've started experimenting with this piece

Here it is without the marks, I'm thinking some additional stitching and or embellishment is needed to make this piece really sing.

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Experimenting with some digitally printed silk and cotton overlays over natural dyed fabrics.

Corn No. 40

Corn No. 40 all spiffed up and ready for a new home! 
Matted and Framed 8x8x2 inches.

WIP's - Corn Series

Corn No. 53

Corn No. 53 - Madder Root dyed cotton fabric, cochineal dyed silk organza net. Machine stitched.

Corn No. 35

Before additional stitching was added to the surface.

After, I'm liking this piece a lot with the additional stitching, not sure if ti's finished or not though.

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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.

WIP - Corn No. 52

Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) - Getting closer to done!

WIP - Corn No. 52

Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) - Almost there, just a bit more to do!

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.

Corn No. 50

On a warm background.

On a cream matt board background, it actually looks a lot warmer in person am still learning where everything is stored at in Photoshop CS6!

8.5x11 inches framed/finished to 11x14x2 inches.
Compost/Eco Dyed cotton and silk fabric, constructed silk cloth, machine stitched.

On display for the teacher show at the CIAA/Fisher in Marshalltown, IA

eBook Issue Resolved!!!

I found out this afternoon that some of the eBooks on CD are no longer working with the latest version of Adobe Acrobat (Mac version) if you bought one of my eBooks on disc and it is not working to please let me know when you bought the book(s) and I'll send a digital download instead.

Mark Making with Nature eBook is available for digital download in my shop!!!

WIP - Bins

Will add more color, layers, and texture tomorrow, am much happier with hit now though, as compared to the earlier post from today.

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.