I should be busy working on my pieces for Dimensions but am recovering from having 3 teeth out yesterday. I’ll have to get back to work soon – still have lots to do. At our last meeting some great work appeared for the exhibition so I’m sure it will be worth a visit. On Friday, […]
The above piece was done with heat transfer dyes on a bright yellow polyester, linen look fabric. Not my usual colours but I really like it. I also painted lots of other papers to transfer later. The painted papers last indefinitely as long as they’re stored away from light. The workshop with Kerr Grabowski last […]
This silk scarf was done last year but I hadn’t photographed it before. It’s crepe d’chine, breakdown printed with Procion dyes. The texture object used to make the screen was the rubber doormat outside my studio door. The silk/cotton scarf below, has been on my blog when in progress – it’s another breakdown print with […]
We’re just back from a week in the Albany/Denmark region. Daughter, Renee, came back from Japan for Christmas and wanted to go down South – so off we went again. We had a great week with her and Kathleen.Above: Some of the wildflowers we saw on the south coast. I don’t know all the names, […]
We’ve just come back from a short break in Dongara – about 350 kms north of Perth. Although it’s a bit late for wildflowers we saw some beautiful ones.Above & below: masses of gorgeous Verticordias about an hours drive from Perth. I’ve never seen as many as this in one place – we usually go […]
This is where I’m at with the TIF challenge. I may cut it into strips and reassemble but I’m leaving it for now. I know it’s not a great photo, a bit washed out & I didn’t notice the thread accross it until I saw it on the computer screen. The colours for Sept are […]
Here are pics of some of the Kalbarri wildflowers we saw on our trip. Above is salt bush & below is lambs’ wool bush which is lovely & woolly. I don’t know the names of the bottom 2 but I like the seed pods of the 3rd one. I think the last one is a […]
Some Western Australian WildflowersTop and bottom are 2 of the many types of Banksias. Below: the orange plants are a sharp spiny kind of grass growing on a granite rock outcrop. All the pics are taken near Esperance on our recent holiday. Below: again might also be a Banksia, after looking it up in my […]