SOEWN EARTH

The Self Reliant Artist

Trace Willans All Natural Mixed Media



Sunday, May 19, 2013

Eggy Blues

Indigo and soy milk on a Cotton TShirt


Printing on the back drop
So this will be in the next diary book

Egg print on cloth
dipped in the indigo dyebath

Egg Prints on paper, then indigo dipped

indigo mixed into soymilk and printed
destined for the indigo pot

teabags egg and indigo print


egg painted

Lightweight watercolour paper
prepainted in white milk paint
and charcoal
egg and burnt sienna printed
indigo dipped


as above only prepainted with brown milk paint

burnt sienna and egg print
indigo dipped
print patially scraped off

burnt sienna egg prints
over wax
indigo and soy paint

I am having a lot of fun
playing in the studio
these are a series of ideas
for little books I am planning
and samples for the workshops I teach

x te

Monday, May 13, 2013

Incidental Marks 5

Bokk 5
Back Cover

Front Cover

Spine

A lot of the marks in this book

Come from my atempts


to get Eucalyptus cinerea

to be a paint

and some marks are just doodles

or maybe just spillage

But they are all lovely
now available in my

These books have been sitting
for quite some time
waiting to be bound
which is why it appears that
production is up in my studio
this is in fact not really the case
I do keep getting distracted by other things
e.g.
Doing the Indigo Workshop
with
Not very well as yet I might add
but that is what happens when you don't have the right ingredients
and only get to shop once a week
But I will get there.
Hopefully results soon
x te

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Incidental Marks 4

Book 4
Front Cover

Back Cover

Tape Bound Spine

Enigmatic Interior 

Strange Marks

Lines

Blotches

Edges

Mysterious Scribblings

Points of Departure

Beginnings


This book is on a soft paper
with fibre inclusions

It is available in my

x te