Apr 8, 2018
Finished! : May Pole Dance Handmade silk paper collage with birch bark, silk ribbon, beadwork and abalone By Laurel W Carnahan The embellishment on this was a bit of a marathon, but I think it worked out very well!
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Finished! : May Pole Dance Handmade silk paper collage with birch bark, silk ribbon, beadwork and abalone By Laurel W Carnahan The embellishment on this was a bit of a marathon, but I think it worked out very well!
WIP: Cephalo-pods Remember this little octo? I feel so in love with him that I decided to keep him, so, in order to still have some little original Octopus for sale (as promised to a few customers) I decided to reuse the sketch/template to make a pair of simular ones. The thing I kinda wished I'd done differently with the first one is that it's an image that would look really neat *round*...so these guys will be! What I really want is to find 2 round frames, preferably with convex glass! They would then look very porthole like, which I'd love So I'm going to be hunting for an 8" round pair on Etsy and Ebay (new ones are VERY) expensive)
WIP: Cephalo-pods Remember this little octo? I feel so in love with him that I decided to keep him, so, in order to still have some little original Octopus for sale (as promised to a few customers) I decided to reuse the sketch/template to make a pair of simular ones. The thing I kinda wished I'd done differently with the first one is that it's an image that would look really neat *round*...so these guys will be! What I really want is to find 2 round frames, preferably with convex glass! They would then look very porthole like, which I'd love So I'm going to be hunting for an 8" round pair on Etsy and Ebay (new ones are VERY) expensive)
Starting on my papers for the big salmon piece The two upper photos are the rust and the burgundy papers while still fiber The bottom left is the rust paper done and cut out...it came out too pale, so the darker version is after a rusty/orange over-dye. I do kind of like the light version, so I might dye some and leave others alone The last photo is the red. It's fine, because red dyed silk is ALWAYS gorgeous!
Dying Day! My mother came out to help me in the studio yesterday, and we decided to take advantage of the two person workforce and do a good sized batch of silk fiber dying! It's lovely to have help with this, as it's kind of an assembly line style project. I mixed colors while she pressed air bubbles out of the fiber and put them in to microwave to heat up. Then I rinsed them out and layed them out to dry as she pulled them out and checked the tempurature It's a nice color selection I think, for upcoming projects
WIP: Reds on the River Most of the green has been cut, except I wound up hating the brighter green, so it is going to get an over-dye to tone it down Did I mention how fiddly this thing is? So many tiny pieces! I still need to do some of the smallest fins plus a bunch more of those little "dots" Time for a coffee break though!☕
WIP: Reds on the River Ok, so they have no heads, tails or fins yet, but I'm SO pleased with then colors on this big salmon piece that I had to show them off! I made 2 different green papers for the heads etc this morning, and once they dry I can start cutting out and building the details I still have one sheet of paper to make (the final layer of water) and thrn papermaking for this piece is done
Made RAVEN paper today! 2 different versions. One with green and turquise one with lots of purple and blue