The Sewing Machine Studio Students learn to work with electronic, digitised machines… …and old-school machines for sewing, knitting, embroidery and serging. The Weaving Studio I have very limited knowledge on looms but could see the room was filled with many different types – small and large. The largest one in the back is the only […]
Read More...The studio is ready to be ‘loaded up.’ The first step is to assemble the shelving, but I need to also have the stuff to go on each shelf ready to show where to place each shelf, working from the bottom up. This procedure makes the most of the shelving space. We took the furniture […]
Read More...I attended Jane Dunnewold’s Dye workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School in Coupeville. Jane took us through many different dyeing techniques. I picked up lots of valuable tips to fine tune my dyeing practice and I was able to correct the bad habits I had developed over the years. The first exercise was to dye […]
Read More...Daughter Elizabeth went to work on another under-utilized wall in my wet studio…. … after I was told I couldn’t remove that white porcelain thing. A door on trestles fit into the space making a great print table. With the door taken off the shower it is easier to get into the rinsing area. A plastic shelving unit […]
Read More...Kerr Grabowski says you need to/have to pop the bubbles before using the wrap.That is a fun part of the technique.
Read More...The messy bits off the edge of the screen were caused by saggy screens. One of the drapery fabrics I used to make screens stretches when wet. More embedded screens. I used a variety of grids collected from produce wrappings. Extruded technique. More extruded play using a squeeze bottle full of thickened dye.
Read More...Next technique was to embed a variety of materials on a screen painted with thickened dye. Once the screen was dry the materials were removed. This screen produced 4 images before it was exhausted. This screen produced 12 images before the dye was finished.I suspect the variable making the difference is the fabric on the screen. This fabric […]
Read More...I made a print board from insulation foam, an old wool blanket, vinyl and an old poly-cotton bed sheet. Ready to go, starting with primary coloured Procion MX dyes. Working with a newspaper stencil is the 1st technique on Kerr Grabowski’s ‘Deconstructed Screen Printing for Fabric and Paper’ DVD.The image fuzziness is an example of learning from mistakes. The cloth […]
Read More...Another close up of the layers built up on the white silk with wax, dyes and screen printing, in Shannon Wardroper’s class. Cutting up the length of silk to put it back together again. My first go at using the silk to make a wall hanging While building up the layers on the silk, I […]
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