Tjaps

These came in the mail yesterday, an early birthday present to myself. Dharma Trading company gets a shipment of about 300 tjaps a couple of times a year, and in the past I've always been to late to order and have never been able to get one. This time when I got the e-mail notice that they had some in, I jumped right in and was one of the first to order. I'll probably use them with soy wax, I've already done some rubbings, or they just may end up as decorative.

Some color

After working in black and white for awhile I'm in need of some color. The color in the pictures is way off, must be time for me to learn how to correct it. The background is a blue green, with red violet and yellow orange, a perfect triad. The fabric is some old kimono silk that I hand dyed and the stitching is done with hand dyed pearl cotton. I made it as a donation for the SAQA 12" sq. auction that will be held later this year. Below is a close up. I love the actual colors(not what the picture shows) and the texture from the hand stitching.

Circles revisited

I've and hung fourteen of my 10"circle pieces on a long wall in my house. I showed fifteen of them last month and have made some deletions and additions since then. I took out four that didn't work for me and added three more. I took out the stitched ones that took a lot of time but I'll do something else with them. They were just to bulky wrapped around the frames.


These 2 are new ones, white buttons on black silk.


These 2 are black buttons on white linen. During class it was decided that these didn't fit stylistically, but I decided that since they were hanging in my house it was okay. In fact I did the white on black ones to balance out the group


These 2 were done with a flour paste resist on silk, then painted with black dynaflow paint