WIP's

oil on paper

I have been playing with oil paint

Hand made of course

Natural pigment

Earths + Indigo

and linseed oil

Oil on board

oil on board over palm debris

mixing white cold wax

and voila

a whole different look

all these pieces are works in progress

I will now work with cold wax over the oil

as well as add marks

in various ways

with a variety of materials

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Brisbane

I will be flying through Brisbane sometime between either 17th and 22nd of October so if anyone is interested in me teaching a workshop ( examples here) in the area please let me know ASAP as I can arrange a stop over.

I will be teaching in

Melbourne at Open Drawer

a 2 day Natural Dye Workshop

and a 1 day Paint and Tape Book Workshop

My 1 day workshop in

will be a 

1 day Paint and Tape Book Workshop

Glue paint and Milk Paint

on a sheet of Hanhemuele 150gsm print paper

Torn up and assembled into a book

this has naturally dyed silk tapes

and a string bookmark

The cover has been waxed 

and some embellishments added

the book closed

with a stop in Goolwa 

inbetween 

for a play 

with Sandra Brownlee

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3rd Saturday Workshops

3rd Saturday Workshops

With Trace Willans

Of Soewn Earth.com

All workshops held at the Library in Cardwell

10 – 4

Maximum of 12 students

 $100 per workshop

Bookings Essential

Must be paid for in advance

soewnearth@yahoo.com.au

0401424751

July  19^th Natural Dyeing

Spend the day learning the basics of dyeing using plant material gathered from your home and local environment. We will be using a bundling technique with boiling and steaming which prints the actual plants onto the fabric, giving excellent detail.

August 16^th  Making Simple Paint and a Tape Bound Book

Begin the day by learning to make two simple paints from milk, flour, sugar and natural pigments. Then use them to paint a large sheet of watercolour paper on one side. While this is drying make a small sample tape bound book in preparation for tearing your painting into smaller pieces to make a one of a kind artist’s book which you will work back into using encaustic techniques.

Glue Paint & Milk Paint

September 20^th Starch Paste
Learn how to create small artworks using flour and milk. We will create areas of crackle finish and then paint over them with handmade paint then finish with ink.

October 18^th  Playing with Egg
We will look at many different ways of using egg as an art material, from traditional egg tempera to stenciling, stamping and breakdown printing.. This one of my favourite mediums to work with as it is so versatile. Also learn to make traditional gesso

Tide Marks

Tide Marks

all natural mixed media on board

30 x 30cm

$250 plus postage

this is the view I have 

each day on my morning walk 

looking out over the mudflats 

to the sea

I glued down a piece of silk noil

over 2/3rds of the board

and then applied starch paste over most of it

and scratched into it

 milk paint has been applied and then ink

which was washed off

after it had thoroughly dried

I have added wax and dry pigment

This is the piece I entered into the local art prize

I did not win anything

and it is likely I will be bringing it home 

but I am good with that

we are living in a fully furnished apartment

and the art is not to my taste

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Indigo

A selection of my indigo experiments

On the right is a piece of linen knit with a light indigo dip 

and a squish of terminalia catappa

to the left and centre 

is a wool knit

both cold/solar dyed with the terminalia catappa

the one on the left over dyed with indigo

Up the top is another piece on the linen knit

made into string after 

a good long soak in the indigo

underneath it is a woven square of

nettle fibre

indigo soaked

and last but not least

in the very centre 

3 found fish bones

after an indigo dip

I am loving my

open air 

fructose lime pot.

x te