New completed work

This is the latest piece I have finished.  I call it "Chaos 2010".  It is an original graphic design, and it is hand-painted, hand-dyed with organic dyes made with plum peels from the orchard and hand-stencilled with hand-cut stencils and antique wooden print blocks.  The piece is free-motion quilted and measures about
21" X 21".  I like the gold paints, which do not show up well in this photo.

Sunshine and Paint!

Even with as busy a week as it is going to be, I have found time this morning to get up in the studio, and am unwrapping brushes, silkscreen frames, paints and new reactive dyes to start a new work.  I hope everyone had a fantastic Xmas!  We are spending New Year's Eve out of town and have tickets to a "pops" concert.  In the meantime it is a race to the weekend to get everything done!!

This is the image I chose for my logo--the windows overlooking Woodstock Road.  It is the first thing one notices about the studio.  The windows frame the valley from our hilltop perspective.

RAINING LIKE CRAZY!!

It should be a great opportunity to forego household duties.  But I tried to get up into the studio today, and got sidetracked with overdue errands.  Tomorrow is another day (Scarlett!) so I will make an attempt to 1. work on refining this blog, and 2. work on some in-process projects.   I am working on a piece that has various shades of teals and greens, and has insets of hand-dyed and hand-painted fabric with some copper metallic embellishments. I am also "dying" to get started with some newly acquired reactive dyes and screening tools. 

Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum Contemporary Art Quilt Exhibition

Four of my pieces were selected for a juried show at the SYV Historical Museum at the end of October. The exhibition ran from Oct. 29 through Oct. 31. The pieces exhibited varied from smaller framed pieces to a larger tapestry-style hanging. I would like to thank one of the docents, Catherine Graves, for bringing me a beautiful stack of dupioni silks in jewel-tone colors, after seeing one of my pieces which was rendered in silk. It was a delight to be shown among so many talented individuals.