Intuitive Art Journal

I have been playing over with Erin Faith Allen 

since early December doing her

  Metamorph online workshop 

I thought I might share some of the Journal spreads with you

Bearing in mind I am very much out of my comfort zone

So it is all about working with your intuition 

and just seeing what turns up

This one started because of a bleed through

all the pages have been prepped with traditional

rabbitskin glue gesso

and using natural materials 

and home made paints, 

e.g.milk paints and watercolour

I am also using 

Indian inks

as well as natural dye pigment

dissolved in meths (a type of alcohol)

and natural earth pigments

and natural indigo 

These last 3 are very much

works in progress

some collage

and some paint rag glued in

Each month has a theme

and I have just completed month 4 FIRE

and there are still 8 months to go

I am hoping for improvements

along the way

or at least more confidence

x te

In the Studio

Playing with Native Resin and Traditional Gesso

The beginning of some new pieces

Indigo, Native Resin and Cutch on Traditional Gesso

On the beautiful cradled boards Dan made for me

I will put up photos next week of what these now look like

with more layers and wax

background under layer

But what is occupying much of my time

is the online workshop 

the Keys to Dymanic Composition

I am currently in the middle of

over at

Composition with Single element

Jane Davies

Such a lot of fun

And yes it is all natural

x te

Eucalyptus Cinerea

Yes I did it.

Eucalyptus Cinerea Paint

I haven't yet cracked the rich red colour

but I will get there.

i am so excited to have finally

made a paint

with leaves gathered from my property

All will be revealed at my upcoming workshop

in Melbourne

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