WAC Fashion Show

The Wearable Art Connection Fashion Show is Saturday  May 18th at the Fullerton Library.
See you there.

 I'm off to Santa Barbara from Monday to Thursday pm.

Fashion Show Coming

We will continue marbling this week.  Bring a pot luck food to share instead of lunches.

It is the last class until September, but we still have the WAC Fashion Show.  So be sure and bring what you are going to model on May 8.  FASHION SHOW ON MAY 15 AT FULLERTON LIBRARY 1:00 PM.

We will also  have a get to gather at Myrna's on July 24th 875 N College Ave, Claremont at noon.  Bring a pot luck dish to share. and anything elese you want to show and share.

I will be posting now and then throughout the summer.  Hopefully you will check the blog out to see what I'm doing.  We will resume classes again in the fall.  starting with 3 or 4 weeks of photos and quilts.  After that who knows?  Please let me know what you might like to do.

Marbling for 2 Weeks

We will be marbling on fabric or paper if you wish on Wednesday and also the next week.

Remember to pre-Alum your fabrics or paper BEFORE CLASS and cut the pieces to the size of the bin you will be using.

 These are marbled fabrics drying on newsprint.

 This is marbling over the top of a failed silk painting.  It is now something wonderful.  Think what you have that has been painted or dyed and could use something else.

This is two layers of marbling on white fabric.  One layer was swirled the second was not.  I love the complex effect.
I don't think I put eyedroppers on the list.  You will need one for each color of paint you use.  You will have two weeks so you can over dye the second week if you want.

Coming Events

I have been working on a piece for a show coming up this summer.  I don't know how to get the photos in sequence order so bear with me.

 This is the detail of the finished piece.  Silk painting with gutta resist, but I colored some of the gutta pink some is gold and some is clear (white).  I'm thrilled with the results I got on the jellyfish floaty stuff under the umbrella part.  I free motion quilted the jellyfish, but not the water background.  Since it will never be washed it really didn't need lots of quilting.  The tentacles are free flying strings and threads.

 This is the painting and a few of the applique pieces started.

 a detail before I had quilted and added the threads.

This is the finished piece.  It is 15.5" wide 34" long.  I stretched it over wood framing and made it ready to hang as a painting rather than as a quilt this time.  I was really into this painting and had such fun creating it.  It was inspired by a photo I had taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  I hope they like it and accept it for the show.

Paintings

I finished some paintings this past week.  I think I may even get something framed.

 My grandkids critique of this one is "Grapes aren't blue grandma".   I did point out that these grapes were all kinds of colors.  Blue, purple, and green.  They were not really convinced I was right; however they did recognize that they were grapes.  That has got to be progress.

 I think I will frame this one.  It can hang on my wall and remind me of a wonderful day on the Isle of Capri.  Painting in Italy was a wonderful adventure.  Painting from my photographs helps to make it last on and on.

In class we will continue to discharge color so I had extra time.  I probably should have hit a few more Wal Mart's for color remover, but we'll get by with what we have left.

Twist and Shout Success

 A few results of last weeks Twist and Shout.  The silk chiffon was twisted and tied, injected, dripped and dipped in dye and set in the microwave.  So easy but such great results.

This is the finished shirt I did with the Splish Splash fabric.  It just wasn't enough with the background only so I free hand painted it with very pale thickened dye.   The pattern is Diane Erickson "Tori Shirt"  It is a favorite of mine.  There are several variations, but this camp style shirt is going to be great for the summer.

Discharge Pots

We will be taking color out of fabric this Wednesday.  I will set up the discharge Pots in the patio and you can twist and tie your dark fabric and remove some color, then next week put some other colors back in if you wish.  

Bring dark color fabric and see what happens.