WIP - Hands and Sandstone Cliffs

I was starting to think I had made a mistake adding the vertical lines to this piece, that there's no way they could occur naturally on cliffs, after all most color deliniation lines we see are horizontal in the forms of layers right?  Wrong.  My gut instinct was correct the proof came when I was browsing through some photos of the local limestone cliffs.

I was greatly encouraged when I came across this batch of photos this evening.  So in addition to working on the computer tomorrow, I'll be pushing this hands piece even further.

 

Time to make some encrusted fabrics as well, this is a section of the same sandstone cliffs in the above photos.

Ledges State Park, Boone, Iowa.

WIP - Hands

Making cave walls, more later!

WIP - More Hands

From this, white fabric paint on cutch dyed cotton fabric...

Red nom, nom, nom,

To this...

And this...

For this...

Now that the first layer is done it's time to push the surface even further.

WIP - Hands No. 1

Step 3 - a little bit of red.

Step 2 - plum and chamois mixed together for a lovely deep brown.

Step 1 - after I made a mess of it with inks the other night I decided I needed to push it even further.

And this is what I did with the left over handprints! 

WIP - Hands

More hand prints.  It is sooooooo unbelievably hot and dry here, normally we have a humidity level around 50% or higher this time of year, which is causing problems with drying times.  Problems as in everything is drying within minutes, sometimes seconds, making it difficult to work the cloth.

WIP - Hands 070412

Now with machine stitching.

I will be adding more surface embellishment to the piece once the heat wave passes, right now it's just too hot to do much of anything.

Faerie Parts

Remember I said I wasn't happy with the way my first faerie was working out? Well I made a new Faerie, here's a picture of her hands and feet! I'm pleased with this body form and will decorate it tonight, right after I'm done making pickles!

Hands

Post berry picking! Normally my hands look like this after a day of working in the studio not tonight though this is juice of the berry on my hands!