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 recently got to play with deconstructed screen printing again, and I got some pretty cool results. The process is easy, but it also involves a fair amount of dyes, equipment, and set up. Here’s a brief video overview. You start by purposely allowing thickened dye to dry in your screen. A random design is…
Now that I’ve started using those new stencils I can show you my results. I started out by over dyeing some of the duds from my previous dyeing session. Like this one. Not horrible, but definitely not exciting either. I simply over dyed it with the same stencil and roughly the same colors. As you…
Did you notice anything different about my newsletter and blog? Both have new headers, each with a new head shot. Yippee! (It was WAY overdue.) I had the photo taken by Bonnie McCaffery, while in Houston. She took about 100 and I picked this one, (even though I wasn’t sold on the background.) So, I…
I recently taught “Floral Improv” in Bradenton, FL. With only five students in the class, everyone got lots of attention and made good progress. Mary was able to complete all of her quilting in class. Check out her fabulous results, in-progress below. See how much the quilting adds to it, below? Carol used her own…
Fresh on the heals of my recent “rough draft,” I used my lessons learned and jumped right into the next piece. I wanted to use some of my hand dyed fabrics with larger scaled prints. This is fairly new to me and I often find it challenging. A good reason to do it! I pulled…
Y’all, I am SO fortunate to be part of the Dirty Dozen Fiber Artists. This group of women is not only artistically talented, but great friends! What a blessing to each of us. Here’s most of the gang viewing our current exhibit. Can you tell we’re having fun? Our group is mostly about making art,…