I’m participating in the 100 Day Project again this year. I intended to do a similar project to last year’s — a series of (unrelated) mixed-media collages, with a heavy dose of monoprinting to create collage fodder. That’s not quite how things have been turning out, though. Have you ever had a project appear...
Lately I’ve been doing a bit of dyeing, something I’ve wanted to try out for quite a while. I bought a set of three little jars each of mixing primaries of Procion MX dyes to use on cotton fabric and acid dyes to use on my handspun yarn. I started out dyeing some Kona...
I dug up some more leaf prints made during my leaf-printing spree last year. There were two prints of the same northern catalpa leaf. I left the more distinct one untouched and filled in around it with bits of torn paper. On the much less distinct print, I outlined it and went over the...
I’m still feeling very enthusiastic about tearing up bits of paper and gluing them to stuff. I dug a sketch of some redbud leaves out of my sketchbook and transferred it to a gel print I made recently. When I first finished collaging the leaves and drawing the veins in, it looked like this:...
