Fabrics "Fotos" and Flickers

Block prints on cotton

Screen print on repurposed fabric; acrylic painting in background;

vessel made by anonymous high schooler; tomatillo on glass trivet

 Screen print on polyester chiffon;
 draped over chairback in front of window (photo rotated)

 Inked printing block from India

Hand printed repurposed fabrics

 

  Acrylic on paper (cropped)

Hope you're having a great weekend.  I'm trying to find my way back to my paintbrushes.  In the meantime, I pulled lots of pieces of printed fabric out of storage and scattered them about on tables and chairs.  Of course, that created visual chaos.  So I immediately began editing them back out of sight, save for a few of which I might actually attempt to sew into something!!!  While "editing" I took these photos.  Taking photos--and especially "curating" them-- is a great way to train the eye.

This afternoon, I spent awhile reading Cathy Cullis' "Dye Studio" tutorials on her blog.  Her process for dying small pieces of fabric with plants is very similar to making sun tea.  It's all so low-tech and so "Slow-Cloth-like" that it makes me want to order some mordant this minute and get started.  See Cathy's lovely blueberry and onion skin fabrics and her gorgeous hand- and machine-stitched beauties here.  Find out about the Slow Cloth movement here.

A serendipity of sitting at my computer while creating this post was the huge male Flicker that climbed the tree trunk 10 feet beyond my window.  His coloring was as vibrant as the browns and pink/reds in my painting, above.  :)

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