The View

 

The Adirondacks have always held that allure for me. So, I'll get a few days to take in the all I can soak up. You'll pardon my missing a day or two here.

On the Road

 It's been a while since I last road a bus. The journey took me through the fingerless, then a night there and then north. A family gathering and time away.

Washout Test

As I've processed some recent prints through the three washes (cold, warm, hot) I occasionally test for color fastness. Dry, washed fabric is sewn to a white back with cotton batting between. Then the stitching line is soaked with water, and if it bleeds, it's back in the wash. This is bleeding, so, a redo here.
 

Design Walls

My overbuilt design walls got a tryout today. I'm not yet ready to work in this studio, but I was eager to see how it felt to be able to compose and walk back from the wall to see the composition. This is such a treat, and a luxury -- to get distance from the wall. I like it.
 

Details

I've photographed a piece now in my new studio. I'm trying to get detail shots, and this one won't make it for submission. Oh, the color is fine, and the composition all right. And I think it shows the stitching and print quality. But it is square. And I'd rather show as much as I can in a horizontal. Redo!
 

Design Walls Started

Boring as it is, it has to be. I've overbuild these panels. The base is a hollow core door, a layer of "backer board", a layer of poly batting and then a layer of flannel. A friend cut french cleats for me, and one cleat is toggle bolted to the wall, the other on the panel. They'll be used, certainly. Just as soon as I can.
 

What Light Can Do

I liked the space before, but golly, add light an it really starts to make sense. I've started to ring the room with LED strip lights, and added a globe just for fun. There's more, but the ceiling is 12' high, and that ladder tall. So I'm going slow.
 

The Joy of Printing

It takes a few days to understand the limits and possibilities of using thickened dye to print. But then, wow. This is made in one go, just adding and adding, until Ann walks it out to the clothesline. The she'll go back and do it all again. Joy.

 

Sturgeon Moon Missed

I'm a few days late posting the Sturgeon Moon, and a super moon at that. You'll have to imagine this part of my three yards of blue polka dots as the fill in for that night's wonder. Thursday was a long day of printing, and most of the class worked full into the night. Moon's fault, I imagine.
 

Free Art Library

The Free Art Library thing is new to me. But Greenville Arms, the Inn that hosts the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops, has one with art from me! It's hard to see my three additions, but I got a snap before I "installed" them. I wonder how many of these Free Art Libraries there are?

 

Low Tech

If this was a Zoom-based class, these would be a PowerPoint lecture. But given the lovely grounds at Greenville Arms and the Hudson River Valley Art Workshop space, we had all the outdoors to use. Topic? Composition, motif, scale. What a great class and place to be.