1st figure painting and drawing

Hand dyed/painted silk scarves.

 Silk scarves I tie dyed with kool-aid. I've figured out for the most part kool aid is what I really love to dye with. It's smells yummie, it's a exhaust dye, which means there is no guess work when it's done the water turns clear, and it's not toxic so I don't have to have a different set of pans to dye with, and you have to mix the colors who dosen't love mixing colors! :)

Handmade book and paper.

This is the book I made in fibers class. The paper was made from abaca pulp mixed with handpainted bamboo fiber. The pages were wispy and soft but still strong.

Bamboo fibers :)

Quilt

 

The quilt is finally finished. What did I learn from this?? Always ALWAYS make sure that the beads you want to use will all fit on your quilting needle! For every bead that is on this quilt there was probably about 5 that didn't fit my needle, and beading needles are not strong enough to quilt with lol.

Rabbit eye

Just a simple little drawing but I like the way this one turned out :)

Finished weaving

I love, love weaving!! Oh wait did I already say that?? Yea LOVE it. With this weaving the edges had some issues and I wish I had added the burgundy silk in more of a pattern but other than that I am in love with it. Actually warping a loom wouldn't be all that bad now that I know what the steps are. The first time warping it seemed like every time I felt like I accomplished something there was another step to do that was even more time consuming than the last. Now I know all the steps though so it will seem less freaky lol.The weft threads are all 100% silk handspun by me with crystal beads also spun into the yarn. The warp threads are cotton.

12 hours of art

The Art Dept. hosted 12 hours of art on Friday from 6pm to 6am it was a blast. The energy was great,food was amazing, and it was a blast to see what other people were working on. So much fun, can't wait for the next one.

Weaving :)

Ok not only do I love weaving, I now really want a loom lol. It's such a manic process but meditative at the same time. Once I started this weaving I didn't want to stop.

Warping the loom

I've been working on getting this loom warped from start to where I am, for about 6 hours now. I have no idea at this point why anyone would ever want to weave on a loom lol. I'm hoping that once I get it all set up I REALLY like the process. We shall see...

Quilt

This a the quilt I'm making for fibers class. It's 20  inches by 16 inches and I am doing all of the quilting by hand. Yea I'm a little batty, but I have a very old cheap sewing machine and honestly I like hand quilting. Although I am starting to second guess my size choice as the end of the semester creeps closer. The first pic shows the border sewn on. The 2nd pic shows some of the quilting I am doing. Oh yea without a quilting hoop also, I have been carrying my nice big quilting hoop around for 10+ years and now is the time that I can't find it lol. I think it will be fine though with is being so small. I will update more when it is closer to being finished.

Evil Juicer

Ahhh the evil juicer. I'm starting my blog  with this painting because this showed me that I can actually render halfway decent. This painting was intimidating to say the least. Staring at the shiny thing wondering how to get a "shiny silver" to come across on a painting when there is no shiny silver oil paint to be had. I had to scrub out and start this one over 3 or 4 times before I found a composition that I was half way happy with. Once I started figuring out the shapes and how to render it, it started to move quicker. Unfortunately that was in about the last 2 hours of painting lol. I started taking pic's of it in B&W to help see it better and it really helped. After coming home and uploading them I would see something else that needs to be done and hop back in the car and rush over to the studio to paint. I spent about 13 hours on this painting fixing mistakes, but figuring out what I did wrong in the process too. I think I have learned the most from this painting so far. I guess the addictions I have were not enough I needed one more. LOL