Day 13 continued

Ok, so to catch up with the work I have been puttering around on these past couple of days.
Remember I had two yards that were from break down screen printing...
I split those two yards each in half after the first batching was done.
One half of each piece I tray dyed and one half I printed on some more.
Here is the brown/yellow piece-














Here is the process for the piece on the left:
Step one: Break down screen printing then screen printing of the curvy lines.
Step two - tray dying
Here is the process for the piece on the right.
Step one is the same as for the one on the left.
Step two is additional screen printing with a spiral shape in three or four colors- plum, green, blue


Here is the blue/green piece














Here is the process for the piece on the left.
Step one: breakdown screen printing
Step two: tray dying
Here is the process for the piece on the right.
Step one same as above
Step two: I used two screens to print; one for the blue corn flowers and one for the curved lines. I used three different colors for the curved lines- plum/red, blue, and green. The larger green dots were from the breakdown printing.

The pieces I printed all over a second time still have a lot of white fabric left in them so rather than tray dye them I am going to continue printing and see what other colors I can add before I scrap the back of the whole piece with a contrasting color.

The piece I put glue dots all over and then screen printed dark green....well I tray dyed that a light green and here is a picture of the results. There is still some room in the fabric to add some more color. I am going to hang this up on my design wall and see what color I think I might want to add in. I might split it and do two different things with it too just to experiment.










Two things I have gotten from my husband of almost three years:
"It is just an experiment. Try and see what happens."
So liberating!
"Prepare for the worst and hope for the best."
I find myself using this statements all the time.

I don't make new year's resolutions I pray and ask God what character quality he wants me to focus on for the coming year. That is what I am doing today. What character quality would be a good one to meditate and pray about for this year? I have done thankfulness, love, & self control in past years----I am thinking peace- the peace that comes from God and surpasses our understanding. I have become aware of a lot of anxiety still lurking around in my this past semester.... I'll let you know.
I just found this blog from Christine Kane that encourages you to pick a word for the year. Same kind of idea.

Happy New Year!

Are you wondering where I have been the last couple of days?
Today is day 13 of my vacation and the last couple of days I have only puttered a little with art.
I did do a search on U Tube to see if there were any demos on layering in photo shop. I found some but not with the information I needed at the moment. I know they will help me in the future. That was disappointing i am just waiting for the library book to come. I may try and see if the B & N bookstore is open today. I am stuck on the building piece until I can figure this out.

I have read four novels though! I found some new Jesse Stone books by Robert Parker. Parker's writing style is cryptic, but he makes you think. I find this fascinating and from a counseling perspective he is mostly right-on about people's process only without God.

One thing that came out real well is the revival of the old piece.
I took off the borders and put color on them with green print paste. They turned out great. They match so much better to the over all piece now. Then I realized that what i think it needs is a small colored frame inside these green borders so the inside doesn't bleed off into the edges.
Here are three trials with fabric I made: yellow, red, and blue. Don't think I have hit upon it yet but I am close. This piece incidentally is called Montreat stream. My family used to camp for two weeks each summer right by this stream and I wanted to capture some of the essence of that time.