Independent Study/Master Class & a few other odds and ends

I'm sorry I haven't been writing regularly.  A good bout of influenza will do that to you.  I was too sick to care whether I had regular flu or high-octane flu.  I had a positive screen for it, and I'm assuming I had H1N1 because of my high fever.  As far as I'm concerned, Tamiflu is a wonder drug.  It cut the viral replication and I was better so much sooner.  Still, it sucked.

Today was the first day of the 2010 Independent Study/Master Class.  What a great way to kick off the year: I love getting back into the studio-mode.  This week is a wonderfully energizing way to start new work and push ongoing work forward.  Here are a few things I'm kicking around:

Here is a dye bucket (actually a rinsing-off-the-excess-dye bucket)

with a piece of silk and some facial cloths.

I think this is a cool photo looking down into my orange bucket.

deconstructed, resist, and monoprinting with thickened dye onto silk/soy cloth

screen-printing with a stencil resist under the screen,

mono-printing, drawing with thickened dye

onto silk broadcloth

"rubbings" of a rubber floor pad and a placemat

with thickened dye onto silk/soy cloth

......and now for a humorous photo

my husband ordered this and I didn't notice the

printing on the side of the box until I was dragging it to the trash.

It seemed like a photo-op I shouldn't let pass.  Ha ha!

......and a cute photo

Claire cuddling Bizzi