Well, the results are in, and I’m really happy with this light set up. For this first set of prints under these lights, I used a few different botanicals. The first two were dried, one from Michaels and the other from a flower arrangement I was given several years ago. The other two are from…
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I’ve worked with the cyanotype process with the sunlight in the past. You can see my last post about it here. The challenge, of course, comes when there’s no sun. I had heard that lights can be used for this type of printing, so after some research, I found this light setup. The unit actually…
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I was in Joanns the other day and all of their silk flowers from spring and summer were on sale for 70% off. I’ve never printed with silk flowers so I thought this would be a great opportunity.
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Over the last two years I’ve been presenting my Creating Fabulous Fabrics with Resists slideshow to SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) regions and other artist groups around the country via zoom. I presented it live and narrated the slideshow. I decided it was time to share it with all of you with the audio recorded.…
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Last summer I had so much fun printing with daisies. I finally got around to framing a piece which will hang in our newly renovated bathroom.
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If you read the last post you know that I bought some paint while in Hawaii to play with while on vacation. I’ve always admired these Monarch Ferns. I love the little spots on the leaves. I asked several people what they were, and the response I got was that they were weeds that they…
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After so many changes, my fabric book is finally finished! Yipee!
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We recently returned from a wonderful trip to Alabama. While there I picked up some leaves. I want to create something to remember this visit, so I made some new leaf prints. To start I needed to preserve the leaves. For information on preserving leaves and other botanicals check out this blog post.Â
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I was cleaning up (well, attempting to clean up)Â my computer desktop and I found this file called garden leaves. I opened it up and it was all of the pictures for a post about using garden leaves to print on fabric instead of my regular tree or shrub leaves. I usually make this type…
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