Winter

View from my Front Door in Albany

Friday June 1st

Officially the 1st day of winter

Here in the Deep South of Western Australia

Though cunningly we started a day early.

View from my Back Door in Albany

But as it is friday

which means we once more pack the car

and go home.

Luckily this weekend will be a long one.

Three whole days

Looking forward to that one.

x te

Jane Davies

Jane Davies blog  Collage Journeys 

is one of my most favourite places to visit.

Always such a sense of fun and adventure.

Where trying to let go and see what happens is

a regular occurrence.

Lots of videos

and best of all

visits form chickens!!!!!!!!!

What more could you ask for?

Check it out

you will love it.

x te

Studio Play

Home for the weekend

So fired up the hot wax

and began to play

This is a concertina book that has been on the go for a while now

It is corugated cardboard

covered in plaster bandage

Then plaster of paris was added

Several layers of paint

a layer of xanthorrhoea resin

And today i added encaustic medium

and rubbed in dry pigment

slowly it is getting to a place I like

This is a sample card of indigo powder

in encaustic medium

some have a little titanium white

and some a little yellow ochre

Indigo powder in cold wax medium over

a natural finishing joint compound

on fabric

and two little encaustic paintings

plaster on encasutiboard

indigo and titanium white

both as encaustic paint

and dry pigment

These are of course more samples

for the workshop at teh Natural Dye Symposium

But now it is time to start the prep work

for wood fired pizzas

yum

x te

Where Have I been?

Oh dear, has it really been that long since my last post. A whole Month!!!!

I spent some time in Melbourne and went along to the Fred Williams Exhibition which was Fabulous.

Then I went to Qld to Dorothy Caldwell's workshop again Fabulous

above is my ink painting using a brush on a long stick

It has now been chopped up and is being made into a book

Which I will offer on etsy sometime.

But on day two of the workshop I got sick

Some very nasty virus came to stay

Because of this when I flew home my wonderful husband

drove for 5 hours to pick me up from the airport

we stayed the night at his brothers and then drove home again

the next day.

Boy did I feel loved.

Anyway it took me over a week to recover from that.

And I have also been prepping for my upcoming workshop

at Beautiful Silks Natural Dye Symposium

coming up in July.

Below is a little something I wrote for that.

Cutch

I am currently in my kitchen making samples for my workshop at The Natural Dye Symposium.

These are my samples playing with cutch and soy milk and as you can see i have 4 different colours happening just from making small additions. Next I will do the same experiments with skim milk and with egg. Before moving onto the next natural dye. So there should be many colour ideas for you to look at. This of course will be for the second day of the workshop.

Day 1 will be all about what to put colour onto. I don’t just mean what type of paper, cloth or board, though these are considerations, but what to apply on top for natural texture and what choices do we have to attach to our surface. So we will look at glues and gessoes, threads and paper, starch pastes and plaster.

My workshop will be very much process not outcome based. I will be providing you with recipes, which of course should only be thought of as guidelines just as they are in cooking. Where you choose to take them is entirely up to you.

I look forward to journeying with you.

Hopefully I will have more exciting things to relate soon.
x te