Gods art...

 

My studio time has been minimal the past few days. I was blessed with this beautiful water lily bloom this morning. 

Ink and acrylic

 Continuing with floral exploration 

Floral Day #3

 Watercolour:

Quicky floral #2

 

If I do one everyday,  by the end of the summer I may see improvement.  Right?

Too hot to be outdoors

 I declared a play inside afternoon. It is a good day to begin planning a felted wool still life design. 

Butterfly House/St Louis

 Paintings at the Sophia Sachs Butterfly House in St Louis:

Iris: Part 2

 The iris were simmered, left to soak, strained,  and simmered some more to reduce the liquid.  Once it became "syrupy ", I added a bit of vinegar. 

What did I get? A lovely grey!

Ink: Iris part 1

 I picked all my purple iris flowers and will begin to cook them down for ink. They looked so pretty in the bowl. 

Wool loving kitty!

 I have a little workstation upstairs in the garage to card wool. Someone has decided it is a great place to chill while I'm on the treadmill!

Fly...

 No surprise - I like butterflies!

Cyanotype

 We've had wonderful sunny days for sun printing. 

The print while processing in the sun

I came across this lovely weed in the woods. My plant id app identifies it as Camassia leichtlinii (Baker) S. Watson or Large camas. I wonder where it came from? Not sure... but it made a lovely sun print!

Needling time!

 A little prep work for upcoming teaching

Using a wool dryer ball as the base is a tremendous time saver. For now I'll use wool and no stitch or beads, just playing and figuring out the best teaching methods.

Figge: Kames

 A trip to the Figge Art Museum is always inspirational.  I especially enjoyed the art by Louise Kames in the exhibit; "I Don't See Anything That's Not Beautiful "

May 1st - Wow!

 It's a rather rainy, cool, damp day here in northern Illinois. I'm picking up mom in a few minutes for a visit to the garden nursery and a bite of lunch. This past week I've been doing some stitching and beading on some wool that I felted last month. Progress is slow and I'm not totally sure about the direction this piece is going. It just needs time to develop

Cake

 And now for a little something very different... I baked a Norwegian Wedding Cake for a friends birthday! Baking is good therapy. I was thinking that if I did this and constructed it upside down, it could be a vase or a flower pot. So many ideas!!!

Italy #7

 This trip to Italy was to attend a week long art workshop at Hotel Leone in Montelparo. I did alot of art!

Italy #6

 One of the excursions we enjoyed was to a sheep farm where we did an eco-dyeing project.