Here are some pictures of my latest art projects that are being "generated" for two juried shows that are coming up next month. I have been pretty productive as you can see. This jacket was spray painted gold and then embellished with black fabric paint. There is some small brush work that you can't see on it and I am planning on mounting it with some gold link chain and two gold rods. When I get that finished I will post another picture.

Here is the one I was working on earlier. It's called "She Spilled Her Guts" for obvious reasons. That's a lotta fabric that I braided and stitched together. There is silk chiffon, silk dupion, habotai, raw silk, and some crepe backed silk satin all in the mix- probably about 24 yards of silk total with some gold bling-bling from the Christmas tree and some shattered gold ornament shards in there as well. I'll include a detail picture.

I've really been drawn to metallic paints lately. They are such fun to spray or brush on and then push around on fabric. Now lest you think I am very extravagant to be using all this silk and that I hand dyed it just for this piece of art I have to tell you that all this silk was yardage I had from dyeing runs that went bad or were returned for various reasons from customers who wanted something else. Instead of being miffed about the waste I save it up in case someone else comes along who loves it and visits the studio, or for someone who could use a gift, OR for inspiration that hits me and I need fabric and I need it NOW.

This is a crepe backed silk satin panel called "Cave Painting". It was done using Procion dyes and some black silk fabric dye that is so amazingly funky and BBBBbaaaaaddddddd that I will never use it again. I think that Dharma is discontinuing it because it IS so horrible however....it made a really cool piece of art in spite of its inability to dye silk well as it claimed. I was (and still am) working on perfecting my own black silk dye formula and this stuff is now OFF my list as a possible ingredient. Are you still interested? I really am amazed that people read blogs...especially mine! Okay... if you are still hanging in there with me, this piece I call "Io". I love that name. Pronounce it : "Ee-o". Some very smart person named one of Jupiter's moons Io. In a telescope I think it must be very white because in Greek mythology, Hera (Zeus' jealous wife had her transformed into a white heifer but that has nothing to do with my piece). MY image of what Io really looks like is this! I made this with layers of silk chiffon and silk velvet that I painted and dyed and stuffed and cut and machine stitched all over and sprayed with silver spray paint and then stitched some more and there you have it.

Tomorrow I will show you some art fabric that I have made.

Thanks for looking.