OK, eough of the old cowboy song! I'm finally surfacing after a long hard winter. I feel just a little like a groundhog here! While I don't have much to share in the realm of fiber art right now, I thought perhaps you might enjoy a peek at some of the spectacular skies we've seen here recently:
These first two are sunrises taken from my front yard, facing southeast and north east, respectively. In the top photo, you see the bare branches of a little cottonwood tree we planted a few years ago. When we put it in, it was smaller than me (I'm a whopping 5'2"). Now our little tree is taller than the house by far! His sisters, just up the slope are slightly smaller, but still growing great guns.
This last sky photo is one I took at sunset a week or so ago, riding with Mike. That's why it's a bit blurry - motion of the car. But the sky was so pretty, I couldn't let the colors all leak away!Just as we were going into McCook (town south of us) this sunset blasted thru the remnants of an old barn that is slowly self-destructing. I'm going back for a sunset-thru-the-barn pic sometime soon! The farmstead shown here is not what I'm talking about - this one is simply a standard, nothing special farm place. We have a lot of those around here. Good places to live, not fancy. But the sunset sure dresses it up, doesn't it?
Yesterday, I put a few fabric pieces on Etsy. I've had an Etsy shop since October, mostly selling books that need new homes. Yesterday, I decided to offer hand-dyed fabric. You can see it at my shop: www.prairiespirit.etsy.com
I was waffling on my pricing, but decided to go with the price I have on it in the shop where I sell on consignment. I've had some look-ers, but as yet, no buy-ers. I have a few more pieces that I'll stagger in during the weekend. And I have some more books (paper and book-making, quilt, collage, mixed media, etc) that I would like to get up there soon, also. I did not realize how much time it would eat just photograping and editing for that fabric. I can see that a better setup for teh pictures (a dedicated display board) would help tremendously, but then I also am the world's slowest photo editor, I think!
Ok, lastly, here is a shot of some fabric I used flour paste resist on a few weeks ago. It's not that special, but it is evidence that I'm actually still intending to do some work of some kind with fiber!
These are both flour paste resist. The flour/water is squeegeed on, allowed to dry and then crumpled to crackle. After the paste is cracked, I went over it with a thinned down Setacolor black paint, and let it sit a couple of days before washing out. The piece on the right also has some deep red overpainted before washing. It was a good experiment. One that I'll repeat (and in fact have, just haven't washed yet, and I can see a lot of possibilities with it for future surface design.
