I'm enjoying going through my old drawings and books for design motifs. Coming soon is a Spoonflower challenge on the theme of pysanky, the Ukranian art of egg dyeing. To produce a pysanka, the design is drawn in wax before the egg is painted or dyed, so that the fine lines in the final product… Continue reading Work in progress: motif design
Author: Susan Barrett Price
Indie on the edge. Author and artist, working from my studio at the Monastery of Artful Delights on the shore of Lake Ontario.
Motion over still
7:29 a.m. 0°F. Dawn brings the answer: moving water plays havoc with frozen water. Our once-solid ice bank has been carved out by the night's wave action. I'm enjoying a fine cup of coffee.
Cold but not polar
9° F. (-12° C.) As the wind picks up, the waves are crashing over our shelf of ice. I keep watching to see whether the ice shelf will be built up or broken down by the wave action. Meantime, it's mesmerizing, especially with a little sunshine and a few fluffs of cloud. I did dig… Continue reading Cold but not polar
How to dye with snow, part 2
Continuing from yesterday -- After about 18 hours, my layer cake of shirt, snow, and dye looked like this: I have seen instructions to put the textile on top of a screen so that the dye drips through. This may result in sharper patterns and more delineation among the colors, but I'm not sure. Cold… Continue reading How to dye with snow, part 2
How to dye with snow, part 1
I needed a break from my computer screen and virtual designs, so I'm returning to a fun way to memorialize our January snowfall -- snow dyeing. I picked out a white, thrift-store shirt for the project. Here's the process if you want to give it a try. Like everything I do, it's a production. Allow… Continue reading How to dye with snow, part 1
Strange forms on the edge
A wall of ice is building up along the lake's edge as the temperatures remain cold and wave action tosses chunks up onto the surface. Depending on structures below (?) and possibly drainage from the shore, little fiords open up for added interest. Arctic cool. The sun is shining, so I had to get a… Continue reading Strange forms on the edge
Garden party at sunset
Spoonflower challenge: a design limited to four specific colors -- Goldenrod (#E0B138), Midnight Blue (#002E54), Coral (#FA7268 - ASE Color of the Year hex code), Gray (#D9D9D6). My reaction: ew. Oh well. I pulled a motif from my library and gave her a mysterious friend: opposite but the same. A bird looks on. Others designers… Continue reading Garden party at sunset
