Like very accurate portraits.
March Journal: Ellen, by Ellen Lindner
The portrait above was the FIRST thing I ever did with this technique! That’s how easy it is.
Now, I have an eBook about this technique, which uses this awesome apple to teach you the concepts.
My students and readers have had really good results with this technique. See what I mean:
The download is only $9.95. Find full details here.
Enjoy,
Ellen Lindner
I’m very comfortable using commercial and hand-dyed fabrics in my creations, but I have a few quirky fabrics that I have to treat differently. Things that ravel, ones that melt, and thin silks. I recently pulled out a few of these to think about how I might use them. The yellow-green fabrics are the result…
We’re very lucky to have the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts right here in Melbourne, FL. This is a state of the art facility which brings in extraordinary textile exhibits all throughout the year. Every summer they host an art quilt exhibit. Right now they have two: Radical Elements and A View Within. Radical Elements is a…
I recently had the great good fortune of seeing StitchPUNK, which is a SAQA global exhibit. To say that these artists are creative is a huge understatement! The exhibit statement (best read with a Rod Sterling/Twilight Zone accent) says “Imagine, if you will, an existence where you pull one string and reality unravels. Travel to…
My dyeing/print making class with Pat Pauly was amazing. She’s SO comfortable with thickened dyes and what she can do with them that it was almost hard to keep up. This was the first demo, about using stencils. She doesn’t use them with a screen, but just hangs on to a corner and scrapes dye…
After completing the flowers in my poppy project, it was time to audition fabrics for stems and buds. I also played around with how to best achieve the back lighting on the stems. My plan was to use a white paint pen, in a sort of dotted (fuzzy) effect. That seems to be the right…
While in Asheville, NC, my husband and I attended “Winter Lights” at the North Carolina Arboretum. It was spectacular! Even from the parking lot, we were mesmerized by the beautiful light-wrapped trees. Tons of them. And when I say these trees were wrapped, I mean they were REALLY wrapped! Can you even imagine how many…