This is the final day of Kerr Grabowski’s workshop on Deconstructive Screen Printing. Above is a final piece by Veronica Hofman-Ortega; printed, over printed, and over printed again with Thiox and turquoise dye.
Emily Starr’s final table.
Jo-Marie Karst used an extruder to draw with thickened dye onto screen, then printed.
Jason Romero’s sarong dyed red by submersion [...]
Emily Starr
Eryn Talevich
Veronica Hofman-Ortega
Mine -
This is a screen made by screening thickened dye over wrinkled paper and oval stencils. Then printed. The screen is prettier than the print. That happens.
Hopefully there are not too many pictures, but everyone is doing such interesting work and each person’s is so different.
Kerr is demonstrating how to apply different media directly to the silk screen; Crayola Washable crayons, Caran d’ache water soluble crayons, crayola washable markers, and charcoal.
Printing of the various media using textile medium.
Similar technique by Veronica [...]
This is Kerr’s screen upon which she has drawn with thickened dye using a syringe.
Some of Kerr’s images
The Screens that the class has drying
My screen and print
Kerr doing a wax rubbing of the sole of her shoe.
And the print of the shoe sole.
This is a drawing from a Freida Kahlo art postcard, painted onto the [...]
Today is Day One of a five day Deconstructive Screening workshop I’m taking with Kerr Grabowski at St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School, in Sewanee, TN. Click here for descriptions of Shakerag Wokshops.
Already it’s an intensive day. We’ve made at least two screens, by applying thickened dye in some pattern, to a silk screen, letting it dry and [...]
The blouse is finished except for the buttons. Sharon asked if I planned funky button. I don’t know. I just know that with a cabinet full of a button collection there just HAS to be something in it that will work. Here are two each of three different button designs pinned on. What do you [...]
I’m feeling the need to sew but can’t get creative in the art quilt direction, so I’ll make a new shirt/blouse out of this beautiful batik that was purchased last month.
Memorial Day weekend was the 55th reunion of my high school graduating class. I promised my classmates that I would put the group picture of us and our spouses on my blog. It’s good that this is a small picture so you can’t clearly tell how old we are. Ha ha! It was a [...]
I am a fiber artist whose always been in love with anything "fuzzy." My evolution has been from a weaver to knitter to silk painter to quilter. I knit for relaxation and currently do pieced, fused, and/or appliqued, art quilts inspired by my photographs.
