The day’s duty always: the thing that lies nearest your hand. It isn’t so much our business to be happy - as it is to do the things we are meant to do.
Love in itself is not joy. It is always service and it may be sacrifice. It means giving not receiving: asking not answering. [...]
If you want to receive email notices of Shibori Girl events you have to sign up in the sidebar. I mention this because I am getting ready to send out a notice with lots of good info on the event and trunk show I’m doing next Saturday May 3rd 11AM to 6:00PM at a great [...]
I recently received a request for a referral for an AZ shibori artist. Here’s the details:
Hello! I am looking for a shibori artist in Arizona. I chair the program committee for an organization (Prescott Art Docents, an affiliate of Phoenix Art Museum) that offers art education in the local schools. In [...]
that Andy Warhol once said that “Business art is the step that comes after art.”
Today I’m attending to business art.
I also spent some time reading this excellent article on “Being an Artist” by photographer Alain Briot. I’m not sure why it is but some of the best realistic and practical advice I have read [...]
Lately it seems I just can’t get settled into regular blog posting. I have so many things to make note of I keep putting it off and the list gets longer. Here are a few of the ones I can remember….
I did get a new post up on Elementary Art. Stats are improving [...]
I know it has been almost a month since I have posted here. I have received a number of emails and even a few calls wondering if all is well. Yes, all is well. Thanks for checking in! This is a very busy time of the year for anyone who calls making [...]
First, I want to say thank you to all of you who visited me at my booth in Houston. It was such fun to meet those of you who have come to know my work through the blog and flickr as well as seeing and catching up with old friends. What fun we [...]
After posting a question to the dyerslist forum about where to find the cheapest black cotton that discharges well, I ended up at JoAnns Fabrics where I bought 12yds of black cotton with a 40% coupon at about $1.70 yd. The above photos chart the progress of the project which is to do a [...]
I have been spending some time reading over at The Ragged Cloth Cafe. I’ve been thinking about art a lot lately and the more I learn the more questions I have!
Today my blisters are peeling from all the pole wrapping- (*buy new gloves tomorrow) There are piles of colored silk that need [...]
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 [...]
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