Natural Dye Blog Crawl - July 2013

WIP - Nocturne Series


I like this one way better than the first one to the point that I'm ready to start layering more color, texture, etc., on the first one I started. 

Birds in Tree stencil, watercolor, tsukineko ink, pitt pen, copic marker.


Went to Hobby Lobby and picked up some lino boards to carve, I have several sheets of this in my wet studio that I cannot find for the life of me! 


I have one of these floating around my studio as well, this one is slightly larger text size than the one I have and the price was low enough that I purchased a second font plate...


An Old English font.


Somewhere in my wet studio I have gobs of print blocks I've carved, it's time to go on a treasure hunt!



Stencil Heaven!

 

 

Tsukineko ink on watercolor paper using my two stencil designs.


Birds in Tree Inverse Stencil -  works beautifully as a mask when laying down color!


"Bird in Trees Inverse" Stencil sample.  I'm in love with both of my stencil samples, if you don't hear from me well you know the drill send whoppers and cheesecake cause it means I'm holed up in my studio!




Oooh Stencils

 
Yesterday something absolutely wonderful arrived in the mail for my approval, my sample stencil from one of my own designs "Birds in Tree"!  I've been playing with it ever since it arrived, and of course the inevitable wait time for layers of gesso to dry had to be endured, but over all I'm having a blast this afternoon!
 
More layer as these two layers should be dry and ready for the next several processes, which includes some ink/pen techniques and then more layering.  I see some numbers and text in this piece as well. 
 
Tomorrow I will have some fabric samples to show and tell.