Organic

I fiddled around with fabric this afternoon and came up with this. The base is deconstructive screen printed cloth with dyed and painted silk organza pieces laid over top. I have just discovered Misty Fuse. Why did I not listen to all the other artists who use it...like before now? It's wonderful stuff.

I could of stayed up all night working on this. It was one of those times that I was living in the right side of my brain and time was something from another dimension....a very special, special feeling. The base is plain white fabric with overlaid dyed and discharged silk organza. The hearts are dyed, discharged and stamped cotton fabric.

I'm toying with the idea of using altered art cloth to create handbags. Funky, fun and no two will ever look the same. I've realized that I love making cloth - dyeing it, screen printing it, painting it, discharging it and anything else that occurs in those 'hey what about doing this?' moments. Since I don't like making clothing I'm wondering if handbags would be an avenue to pursue. Stay tuned for more on this....but probably not until after the holidays.....it's so busy right now....and I have company staying over in a couple of weeks....and that means the house has to get cleaned....tum da dum dum.....

The piece above is dyed cloth overlaid with dyed silk organza and lots of stitching.

With More Than a Nod to Natalya

I really like Natalya Aikens textile art http://www.artbynatalya.com/. Her work has such an ethereal, wispy quality that I find very compelling. Perhaps this is partially due to the fact that my work tends to be saturated with color and not filmy and airy. Case in point...last night I started stitching on silk organza and look what got added this morning - a burnt piece of interfacing. I'm not sure if the burnt piece is staying (I think so but it needs to be burnt more and cut down) but it works with the theme of this piece.....Changing Times.
Time to go start our busy Sunday....have a great day all!

Hand Work

It's been a beautiful weekend here in NY. Sunny, not too warm - just gorgeous. I hand stitched some of the screen printed silk organza into an ATC last night. I just love the beauty of silk ribbons and metallic threads.

Experiment

What happens when you screen print on silk organza? All kinds of very cool layers that retain an ethereal effect. This morning I had a 'what if?' moment when I grab a piece of silk organza, some paints and a thermofax screen. Not only are there possibilites for layering on top of other cloth (this is shown on some of my gelatin and screen printed cotton fabrics) but I'm 'what if?' thinking about how different printed pieces would look secured with matte medium on an artist's canvas. More on that experiment later.

J-E-L-L-O

Some more gelatin printed cloth from class last night. Right now I plan on keeping this as a whole cloth piece and to add hand stitching with some beading and other embellishments.
On another note I rusted some silk organza yesterday and like how it turned out (husband did have to call me at work to inquire what was in that old rusted tin sitting out in the sun). Right now I'm not sure how I'm going to use this but the thought of revisiting my fascination with cairn and standing stones has resurfaced. This organza might make some great ethereal appearing stone images....we shall see.....