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.

Thomas


Summer coat, no bib, no mane and no ear tufts, almost a medium haired cat at this point. August of 2010


Winter coat, mane and bib and all fluffed out.  February of 2011.  He did grow his ear tufts back in and longer, much longer ear hairs, but alas the little bugger won't sit still for photos.

 
These are his feet in August, they are way hairier in the winter!

Practice No. 2


Well since I lost my orginal practice piece I whipped up another one this evening. 
Cochineal dyed cotton fabric, machine stitched, wool quilt batting, aurifil threads.


I couched down more sisal to pratice some stitches with, this "x" shape I bobbin stitched using aurifil wool thread.  Above view is the back side of the sample that was facing upwards when stitching. 


Top side after bobbin stitching, the aurifil wool thread doesn't like to feed through the top on my 6500S so I bobbin stitch with it instead.


I've couched down more sisal since this shot was taken, now I will experiment with hand stitching over the sisal and then machine stitching over the hand stitching to see which effect I prefer.  This all in anticipation of finishing Bjorkboda.



WIP - Hands , Etc.


Cutch dyed cotton fabric, fabric paint and inks.

Am having computer problems again, I didn't realize how stressful this had become until I tried turning on my main computer this afternoon and once again it refused to boot.  Seems it can't remember which drive to boot from, when I go into the BIOS to reset it it then cannot find the actual HD's.  This continious bug is making me cranky, and I'm not accomplishing much these days. 

Anyway, I spent some time in my wet studio, painted some fabric, cleaned a few messes, organized, painted the fabric again, and mostly sat in front of this computer amazed at how incredibly slow it is and how badly I need to update my equipment.  But that won't be for awhile yet, so carry on and dye fabric!