Boldly [again]

Fast! 

Because, sometimes, you only have minutes to try something.

Fungi: Watercolor, 2013

Fungi [detail]: Watercolor, 2013

Fungi [detail]: Watercolor, 2013

Fungi [detail]: Playa Tamales, December 2012

Fungi [fast repeat in mushroom and black] 

Design concept. © CatherineV. Bainbridge 2013

Fast poly print, with different amounts of acrylic paint

Light & Movement

Following on from yesterday's post... 

At home today. 

I uncovered a secret. 

The way that the shadows move around in my house.

Bold. Repeating.

Origins. A screen window, with a wooden lattice.

Sometimes the shadows and sunlight match to enhance the checkerboard, and sometimes they don't.

Overlaps.

Sunlight stretched.

Diamond becoming elipse. Square becoming circle.

Light becoming lace.

The faux-lace cuff of a blouse. This last image is for Neki.

And I think this post is somehow related to this ???

Hamadryas - Progressing

Neki had the idea that this design could be printed and then stitched on top. That's what I think too. A silk screen print. A stamp even. Unfortunately, neither of those methods are options currently. 

So it had to be the hard way... cutting out each individual form... and building up the colors by layer! 

It's not like I either have a large stash of cloths to choose from. I found some scraps which were kind of the colors that I had in mind, but are not the easiest for this kind of work. Some thin linens, a heavier linen, and a poly-cotton mix, all of which refused to pass with grace through the blades of the scissors, [admittedly, this might have been easier had I not been using my scissors to cut branches recently!] the grain shreading off in all directions, giving everything a very un-uniform edge. But I decided not to let that put me off, and kept at it. Perhaps it will be more interesting because of that?

Now, I have a massive headache, and the first piece ready to be stitched in months. 

But will I?

Here it is under construction... layer-by-layer!

What do you think?