Crow Barn 2012, second post

 So I am working on pieces that portray hope. The piece above has the japanese characters for hope.
I put a soywax resist on the cloth and scraped over it a maroon/brown color. I left a few places where the original cloth shows through. There is a detail of one of the peaking through bits below.
I am going to remake this cloth because it was just beautiful and I could use it for piecing.

 This piece of cloth is in process still. I scraped two colors as the first layer with a credit card.
The second layer is the word hope written all over the piece in a pale value of turquoise using a needle nose bottle. Then I masked some areas and using a needle nose bottle again wrote on the top half with maroon with a touch of brown dye.  

 Here is a detail shot of the top half. You can see the turquoise hope behind the maroon words
"daily manna, seek my face,  living water"

I have switched the masking tape and will rewrite the word hope on the bottom with a stronger value of turquoise. Then I'll decide if there is more to do on it before it is "done.

the two pieces I showed yesterday I added another color to them. Once they are batched and washed I'll post pictures of them as well.