Check out my new studio flooring! I just love it! This photo was taken right after installation, before I moved ALL MY STUFF back in. I had it all piled in the dining room. Moving it in and out was QUITE the job! I wanted new flooring to accomodate fabric dying and this is going…
Slowly, over the course of a couple of months, I began to notice the same group of colors. First, was a Croton plant. What pretty oranges and greens! Then, I noticed the mess on my table, which had the same colors. I decided to work with green, yellow-green, and orange. I pulled out all the…
Pat Pauly is a WEALTH of knowledge, so I really learned a lot when I took a 5 day dyeing/printing class with her. First up: colors look different when wet vs. dry. Leslie’s samples served as examples. Bigger can be better. This piece, below, is about 31″ x 45″. So, Pat finally got me 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…