The more I think about my creative process, the more I don't want to think about the it! While I'm a process oriented artist, I'd rather be "doing" the process than simply writing about it. So today, in pictures, this part of the process of writing about my creative process is all about auditioning a piece in progress. And I'll probably post more photos in the next day or so as I work towards completing this piece.
Digital printed cotton fabric, printed from one of my photo collages, layered atop a piece of painted timtex.
I've been having a very hard time bringing myself to cut up, stitch, or otherwise use this piece of fabric. And that is odd. Odd in that I could easily print a hundred more of this collage onto fabric, paper, or whatever, so why not???
A digital piece of fabric that I printed from one of my photo collages, layered atop a piece of painted timtex.
And now with a digtially printed sheer silk organza fabric layed atop the other two layers.
And now with a layer of osage orange dyed silk organza layerd atop the previous two layers. This piece will go through many auditions, layers, etc. before the first stitches take place, and once I start stitching I will then start auditioning more layers once again.
May's fibery giveaway (found out it wasn't spelled give away) consists of natural dyed cotton and silk fabrics, acid dyed silk carrier rods, the hot pink carrier rod fibers were dyed with cochineal, and hand dyed yarn bundle and cotton pearl cotton threads. What you don't see are some extra goodies I'm tucking in with this bundle, in the same color palette of course.
Indigo dyed rusted silk organza fabric
I didn't like these two pieces so I set them aside, with the advent of my new series Harvest, I decided to experiment and sure enough they needed some sketches as well. Lets just say I'm reviewing my entire Prairie Potholes Series now for it's potential to be changed!
The last peak until the final assembly! But I couldn't resist the wings are beautiful, but they are NOT done yet I'm going to couch some constructed threads to the surfaces of the wings to give them strength and dimension then I will attach them to a fitting that can be snapped onto the faerie body.
The back side of the wings consist of angelina fused to painted misty fuse which is fused to painted silk organza and is againg fused, with painted misty fuse, to hand painted papers! I then stitched the elements using a rayon thread to match the angelina and a shimmery copper metallic on the paper side (bobbin stitched).
I think I'll make some attachments with these silk organza fabrics, they have all been dyed with natural dyes. Somewhere in this mess I have some silk ribbons, yarns, etc. that I dyed at the same time that'll also look good on the surface of my latest baby. I also have some raw handspun muga silk yarn that'll do for branch defintion, can't seem to find my brownish raffia I had on hand - it was a weird coffee color that would work really well for branch material.