wrapping up

The following are just some of the designs i was selling at this year's spring art sale. if you are interested in purchasing a scarf, feel free to drop me an e-mail which you can find in the profile area of the blog. also, thanks to everyone who purchased a scarf and those who dropped by to show your support.

the following are 100% cotton that are dyed with a natural dye and printed with a bleaching solvent.


These are done on a synthetic fabric and created with fabric paints that activate to heat. I begin with painting the image on a sheet of paper then i take it into a heat transfer press and that is when the design is cemented. This process also allows for the scarf to be double sided.

Front
Back

Mother, Wife, Husband and Harry

I found these four gravestones in Graceland Cemetery. They was no family name or dates, just the four name plates. These are sewing machine lace samples that have the grave rubbings printed onto the samples. The Harry grave is made of human hair.

All in the family.

My first big project for my print class was to make a piece of work that was 36 inches by 72 inches. i decided to make a piece that investigated the economic divide between my mother and father's families. I did so by printing actual photographs from either family and illustrating some photos myself on a piece of fabric 36 inches by 118 inches. what i came to find that my father's family, which was much wealthier than my mother's family, had far more photos and the quality of those photos was far superior. i inserted the space for picture frames for me to paint in. the divide is not very apparent at this stage but once i add in the picture frames it will be very apparent. the fallowing images are of the process and the "final" piece (this is still a work in process).