Here are my results from a day out in the sun sprinkle dyeing and sun printing. This fabric had previously been dyed and still needed work. I sprinkled on a mixed dye. It is interesting to see how the blue migrated further than the red before the damp fabric dried out. The red blob in the […]
Read More...During a Mark Makers’ summer residency at the Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA) website we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and have a dyeing day outside. We set up tables and brought out buckets of water to the backyard of the school. I set up my sophisticated system for working with dye powder […]
Read More...View from the inside looking south towards the sunny room. The plywood wall layer is nearly finished. The plywood is finished, including on the sunny room walls. The first layer of paper/plastic-like materials is put around all openings in the building envelope. These must all be sealed against water and air/heat loss. I joined the […]
Read More...The construction of the sunny room has begun. It is called the sunny room according to the design book A Pattern Language. It will be where I will sit and hand stitch, read, have tea and think. This week the carpenters also built the porch and arcade that run along the west side of the […]
Read More...The conditions were right: no wind, sunny, fresh leaves falling fast. It was the right time to sun-print. I lay an old door on the grass and covered it with plastic. I had a collection of leaves I had picked up on my morning walk. Three Setacolor transparent greens were mixed and thinned with water. […]
Read More...Another layer was added to our cloths by freely brushing on the back with paint I added some dry brush strokes with a tree stump under the cloth While drying in the sun my cloth attracts some comments
Read More...We began day 2 by making different stamps and playing around with them. The next step with our cloth was to establish territories on it. I used my stamps to define the different areas of an abstracted face. In the afternoon i sun-printed with ferns down the side. At the end of the day i hung the cloth from […]
Read More...I received this wonderful image from my yoga teacher today. Thank you for sharing, Livia. It shows the sun setting over the North Pole when the moon is very close to the earth. Beautiful.
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