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Paintings on Display Around Town

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            Artists by the nature of our profession are often solitary creatures in our work environments. This is one reason I’m thankful for local arts groups that give us a chance to socialize with other like-minded solitary creatures. Another benefit is more opportunities to show...

Spring Silk Painting Workshops

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            Announcing 1-day Beginner and Intermediate silk painting workshops at my home studio!   March 24th and June 9th: Start Silk Painting Today! Beginner workshop, no experience or artistic ability required. With flowing dyes and brilliant colors you’ll learn how to create beautiful art (even if...

Needle Felting to Enhance Nuno Felting

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                I couldn’t help myself – I just had to answer the question “What if”? What if I embellished my nuno felted scarf  from the previous post with some yarn? I just happened to have this great ball of fuzzy, multicolored yarn that...

Nuno Felting on Silk – Too Much Fun!

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            A couple of Fridays ago the Piedmont Silk Painters got together to learn a technique that was new to most of us – nuno felting. In our version, we were going to use pre-dyed silk chiffon scarves as a base, adding wool fibers (roving)...

Scribble Scarf #2 Finished

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            My husband walked into my studio and saw me deep in thought, wondering what color to paint in the white spaces with. I had been thinking golden yellow to contrast with the purple. He said, “Just leave it white”! White? I’m so attuned to...

Scribble Scarf #2

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            Since I had fun creating a design from scribbles drawn with my resist bottle for my last scarf, I decided to do it again, using my favorite color combination, purple and teal. Here’s the border – the resist is drawn in a continuous line...

Scribble Silk Scarf Finished

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            To fill in the scarf I scribbled with resist in a curvy, loopy freehand design. I alternated purple and brick dyes for the main areas and green for the little ‘buds’. I left some of these white to make it look like they were...

And Now For a Scarf

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            Last year scarves were my bread and butter and so I plan to paint lots of them again this year. I’m using resist on this one, and have started by drawing a double border with wavy curves and loops. I plan to fill the...

Orchid Silk Painting Finished!

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               Another layer of background color… In the this and subsequent layers, because I painted wet dye over dry, unset dye, the different layers interacted and formed various spontaneous organic shapes, which lend themselves to the abstract, dreamy sort of look I’m going after....

New Painting on the Frame

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            I’m starting off the new year with a painting of one of my favorite types of flowers – orchids – which I love because of their infinite variety of form and color. Here’s the first step (sorry for the fuzzy photos!) – a branch...