This past weekend I did one of my favorite outdoor art shows - Artsplosure in Raleigh NC. The weather forecast was pretty dire so everyone was well prepared for storms. Happily though, reality wasn't nearly as bad as the forecast. ...
Besides making a tallit for the first time, last month I had another commissioned project - I painted 8 scarves for volunteers at The Healing Place, an organization in Hendersonville NC, that helps victims of sexual abuse. They recently had event ...
Well technically I suppose it isn't really finished until the tzitzit (knotted fringes) are attached to the 4 corners, but the family will do that... my part is done! You can see the beginnings and inspiration for the tallit in ...
I wasn't really sure what a tallit was - that is, until I got a commission to make one! I learned that a tallit is a ritual prayer shawl worn at the celebration of a Jewish girl's bat mitzvah or ...
The art of silk painting with its liquid colors spreading and blending across the silk, its mysterious creation of surprise textures, is one that is one that is guaranteed to bring smiles to the painter. My most recent workshop was ...
Two more batik florals join my bouquet of funky, colorful peony-inspired silk paintings. This previous post and the ones before it showed their development. I find it so fascinating watching how what seems at first like unrelated shapes, come together ...
Continuing the steps of painting my abstracted peonies (previous post) with more wax and dye. Even though I have my design drawn on the silk with a pencil, it's by now it's pretty hard to make it out underneath all ...
Since I had so much fun painting 'Peony in Joy 1 & 2' (this previous post), I decided to do another pair of peony paintings in the same expressionistic style. Again I started off with a dynamic, multicolored abstract background ...
Just a little more experimentation with deconstructed screen printing... such a totally unpredictable technique! I painted a design on my screen with thickened dye and let it dry. I then used very pale thickened dye as a print paste (or in ...
Deconstructed screen printing. Sounds intriguing? It's a fascinating twist on traditional screen printing developed by Kerr Grabowski. Basically, you apply thickened dyes to a printing screen and use a release paste (just clear dye thickener) to gradually release the color ...
Last Friday I was invited to give a 2-hr workshop at Credit Suisse - a financial services company in my area - as part of their International Women's Day activities. We decided to paint silk sun catchers with Dye-na-Flow silk ...
Continuing from the previous post, here are my completed peonies with all the wax removed. They may not look a whole lot like peonies now, but that's the reference I started out with before abstracting them a bit and ignoring ...
Before I get started on this post, I'd like to give my RSS subscribers a heads up that I'm moving my RSS feed from Feedburner to Feedblitz. For those of you who get my blog in a feed reader, you'll need ...
Side by side now on my frame are the beginnings of 2 small paintings that will be close-ups of flowers but with a twist - instead of painting the flowers as you would see them in nature, I'm going wild ...
Another of my new ventures for 2013 is offering to give silk painting demonstrations to senior communities as part of their entertainment activities. My first one was at Rex Rehab and Nursing Care in Raleigh. I gave a 1-hour demo, ...
Can a year still be called 'new' if we're already nearly halfway through February? I don't know. But since this is my first blog post for 2013, I'll take the liberty of calling it 'new'. Since being in the Caribbean for ...
Last Sunday was the opening of my exhibition in Barbados, 'The Magic of Silk'. I wasn't sure at first how the combination of paintings and wearables would look, but the display turned out really well. We hung paintings mostly on ...
It's almost time for my solo exhibition in Barbados! The Magic of Silk opens on December 9th and runs until January 5th. This will be my 3rd show at the Gallery of Caribbean Art in Speightstown, the main town on ...
Last weekend I was one of 18 artists on the Western Wake Artists Studio Tour who shared our art with the public from our homes. My work was set up throughout our downstairs area and I set up a table with ...
Come visit my Open Studio this weekend! Saturday Nov. 10th 10 - 5 Sunday Nov. 11th 1 - 6 My studio address is 104 Canterstone Ct., Cary NC 27518 My hand painted silk scarves, silk paintings, prints and notecards will be on display and ...
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