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.

Dog Transport eBook Special!!!

Dog Transport eBook Special!!! 

 

I've marked all four of my Natural Dyeing eBooks to the special price of $3.99 to help raise transport funds for Junior the labradoodle from Texas to Iowa!!! 

He also needs to be neutered once we get him here to Iowa, he's eight months old and the cute wore off so now he's coming to live with me, we will  have many years of happy walks together! http://www.kbaxterpackwood.com/e-Books.htm

I will post a photo of the new pooch as soon as I have permission to do so, not everyone wants their images out on the net!

Natural Dye Blog Crawl

Check out my other blog where I'm hosting a

 

Natural Dye Blog Crawl
 

this weekend!!! 

 

There are some super talented artists dyeing with natural dyes on the blog list,

so stop on by and say hello!

French Pearl Cotton - Yummy!

Stopped by my favorite haunt today, JB Knacker in Gilbert, Iowa, and found five beautiful skeins of vintage french pearl cotton!

Some of the thread has some foxing but should come out with a gentle washing. 

Lino Blocks Castings

I'm not sure what else to call these little slivers, except for castings.

WIP - Greg with More Beads

Greg is in a holding pattern now, I added some 13/0 delica's to her eyebrow section and then put her aside so I can work on a couple of other projects.  The last bit I want to work on, on this piece, is to take the trim out further, more fringe like. 

Looking for a Bead Source

Ok, am looking for more of these beads since the shop that sold them went out of business. 11/0 seed beads in an olive lined in ocher and a transparent olive lined in ocher, transparent brick red lined and a transparent yellow lined.

WIP - Greg with Hand Stitching

Now with some hand stitching.

Auditioning some supplies to see what will work for embellishments.

WIP - Greg with Beads

 

Natural dyed silk fabric machine stitched with aurifil thread.  

And now some detail shots, a combination of vintage glass and plastic beads.

WIP - Greg with some Beads

My beading spot on the sewing table.

Greg will be getting mostly purple, green, and some orange, beads.

WIP - Nocturne Series

I like this one way better than the first one to the point that I'm ready to start layering more color, texture, etc., on the first one I started. 

Birds in Tree stencil, watercolor, tsukineko ink, pitt pen, copic marker.

Went to Hobby Lobby and picked up some lino boards to carve, I have several sheets of this in my wet studio that I cannot find for the life of me! 

I have one of these floating around my studio as well, this one is slightly larger text size than the one I have and the price was low enough that I purchased a second font plate...

An Old English font.

Somewhere in my wet studio I have gobs of print blocks I've carved, it's time to go on a treasure hunt!