Experimention with Materials
Greetings Friends, Now the compost pile is cooking! This is more what I expected to see from a piece of painted canvas buried in the compost pile for two weeks....
Category: Natural Dyeing
Slow Art Summer
Hi Friends, I’m taking a break from painting, and recently rediscovered my love of crochet. I’ve had some silk/wool yarn that’s been sitting a...
Celebrate Serendipity
Greetings Friends, I’ve been working on a new dyed piece using a slow process, which I rather enjoy. I like seeing the work develop gradually, in small in...
New Explorations
Hello Friends, I’ve been playing around with a lot of different mediums lately. I can’t seem to settle down and focus on any one thing right now. Ma...
Ephemeral Art
Greetings Friends! Although I often paint with bright colors, I’ve been enjoying the quiet hues of natural dyes lately. I love the charcoal grays, rust br...
Wild Cherry Bark Piece
This is a fun little piece of cotton canvas folded, clamped and dyed in Wild Cherry Bark.
Madder on Hemp
I really like the colors of madder root on hemp fabric — done with solar dyeing, and I let it sit about a week in full sun. The unevenness of it is pretty...
Buckthorn Bark Dye
This is Buckthorn bark on cotton canvas, raw silk and hemp — dyed in a plastic bucket using the solar dye method of letting it sit in the sun. I love thes...
Wild Cherry Bark Dye
Fabric samples going into Wild Cherry Bark solar dye bath. I’m testing raw silk, cotton canvas and hemp canvas. I’m not sure how long these will hav...