Time to get it out there

Well it has taken much longer than intended to get photos of our First Year final show up on this here blog.
But alas, here I am with time on my hands, in LA while Christian is at work waiting to leave for Costa Rica to get married.
So without further ado here they are.
Enjoy!

A shot of my forest canopy/tent/fort in the daylight, it is even more magical at night!

This one has a close up of the tiny led votives I added some of my green dyed fabric to for a look of glowing grass.

A peak inside.

Kathryn Bradshaw with her amazingly beautiful books.

Kathryn Bradshaw's impeccably binded book, she's got talent comin' out the wazoo!

William Ruek's Barn, with real live ducks.

Heather Bromer's modified teddy bears.

Killeen Hansen's Papercut Slide Narrative set-up.

Some of Killeen's slides projected onto the wall.

Karl Ramentol's felt bike seats and lamp.

Sheri Earnhart's set design.

Jody Dunphy's seeded and growing paper.

Sheri inside my forest canopy, probably my favorite shot of the night:)

Me and Christian enjoying a break from the show inside the forest canopy with our roommates.

Looking up inside the forest canopy!

And finally a shot of the inside of the forest canopy/tent/fort.

So if you made it through all those photos, I also made a video (my first one ever!) of the dyeing process for this project.  Check it out and let me know what you think!

Till next time!
Hope you are all enjoying your summer:)

The Whirlwind!

Boy has this ever been a whirlwind of the past couple of months.  With 4 or 5 visiting artist lectures, making fluffy wool clouds for a window display, weaving, workshops, reading for classes, writing papers (its been a long time), and diving head first into dying fabrics and making art quilts, the first half of this semester has FLOWN by!
So here it is the middle of November and I am just getting around to sharing what I've been working on here in Portland:)

So here is a little taste of what I have been working on so far...

Starting with the dying, this is one of the larger pieces I did.  It was first painted with dye in a gradient of 2 colors, batiked, then thrown into another dye bath.

This is a piece I made in the Jane Lackey workshop I took.  It was a 2 day course at OCAC, where we were challenged to take everyday found materials and create a piece using 56 points and connect them in some way.

Here are some shots of the weaving I've been doing.  So far I only have pics of the loom set up, since we just started weaving last week.  It took about 12hrs just to set up the loom!

This is a shot of my very first attempt at an art quilt.

And these are some current shots of what I am working on now, which I am really excited about!
These are photographs that I have taken and printed out on fabric.

 

Yay!  Stay tuned as I will be posting some finished projects quite soon.  And after this weekend I will have some photos of the fluffy wool clouds I made with one of my classmates for a window display:)

Leave a comment I would love to hear what you think!