Study Tea

Dan is currently in his last week of his first semester of his Honours Year at Uni. Consequently a lot of tea is being drunk. I am making the most of this by playing with them all.

This is the bowl I use for dyeing 

with a few small rusty pieces in the bottom

and here are a few taking a bath

I vary the ingredients

sometimes I add a little

from my jars of metho and natural dye pigment

After their bath

thye lie around on water colour paper

to dry

Opened up and tea removed

a rainbow of tea bags

the bonus is the dyed

watercolour paper

which I am making into little books

I think I will also add some

tea bags to the inside

this little tea bag

has been rusted

indigoed

and waxed

inspiration for something larger

I have a few of these frames

they are from bee hives

thrown away at the local tip

I plan an exhibtion of them

in my studio

for the

Southern Art & Craft Trail

Coming up at the end of

September

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Learn To Fly Again

Learn to Fly Again

This one is also now available

in my Etsy Shop

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Encaustic Paintings

Shore Dancers

Night Watchers

These two paintings are now up for sale in my

Etsy Shop

I only have them listed as for sale in Oz

as I am pretty sure the postage overseas

would be horrendous

But if anyone really wants one

please just drop me a line

and I will work out what it might be

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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

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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

Etsy Shop

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

Shibori Girl

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

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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

Etsy Shop

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Incidental Marks 2 & 3

Book 2

Front cover waxed for extra strength and

deliciousness

Back cover

Naturally dyed silk used for the tape binding

The exposed spine

yumsh pages

mysterious marks

Look or draw in to here

Book 3

Front cover all tied up

Spine

Mystery map

marks

spaces

islands

circles

blotches

blue or is it purple

more maps

red edge

contrast

definitely blue

I think this might be my favourite book so far.

Check them out

here

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