As noted by Karren Brito in her book and blog, pipes for arashi shibori need to be of a material that can withstand the heat the poles are subjected to during discharging, dyeing, and steaming. At first I used the poles that could be found at local Home Depot stores. These were schedule 40 [...]
It seems that no matter what medium I work with, it always turns to flowers at some point.
Porcelain flowers, photographing flowers, drawing and painting flowers, shibori flowers….
The thing to know is that when the blog is quiet for a bit it usually means that work is going on. So here’s an update of some of what has been happening around here.
I attended a talk on Saturday and became a member of the Wearable Art Connection in Southern California affectionately [...]
Arimatsu-Shibori 有松絞り
found this on youTube- it’s from narablog!
More playing with photoshop and some of the shibori photos:
original photo
manipulation in photoshop
Penny & I got together yesterday to formalize our “plan” for teaching in the 4th (or maybe 3rd) grade classroom again this year. She brought a huge box of the MOST delicious grapes I have ever eaten which she “found” in her backyard while collecting apples to bring over to me. Needless to say [...]
Lee, at Dancing Crow does a postcard a day
Heather at “Drawing on the Walls” is doing a daily polaroid project based on the theme “Home”
I’ve noticed a number of my blogger contacts doing “once a day” projects and I’ve liked the idea of it. As an independent maker of things, the structure of committing [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but I see shibori possibilities in so many things. I enjoyed a week away from everything surrounded by nature, beauty, and quiet. I had some books, some paper,paints,& pencils, and my camera and the time to spend with them without interruption.
Some of the things I saw-
beautiful red dots [...]
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