Monday, January 18, 2010

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



3 comments:

  1. Facial cloths?! Genius.

    My Claire loves to snuggle with our pup, too!

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  2. So sorry you have been sick; and so happy that you are better. Take care of yourself so that you don't risk a relapse. And, by the way, what was in the High Quality Dummy box?

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  3. Thanks! Rachel, there was an actual "high quality dummy" in the box. my husband ordered it for his ongoing project. I laughed a lot when I saw that description, let me tell you.
    I'm writing an article about my work with the facial cloths. Look for it in an upcoming Quilting Arts magazine!

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