Fabric Painting- On A Roll! Brayer Printing

I use inexpensive brayers, found at any hardware or dollar store, to create textured printing. Use inexpensive sponge, foam and textured brayers. 

Paint a sponge brayer with a textured medium to create unique textural mark. Do you still have your old glue gun? Fire it up and decorate a cheap sponge brayer for a very personal mark-making tool.

You can also use any recycled cardboard tubes, toilet paper, corks, even old thread spools to make your own brayers.
Add designs using foam stickies, string, elastic, cloth scraps and you’re on a roll! Try carving an old candle!

Print on a padded surface for the best detail. I have a print/ironing table in my studio. It can be made with firm batting or acrylic wool covered with duck or some sturdy fabric. I staple it directly to the underside of the table. It can be removed when it starts to turn multicolored and re0worked into delightful painted fabric for your art projects.

Hint- I keep my paints upside down when stored. This way I can see the colors readily, the paint is ready to squirt out of the container and it helps seal the paint container for less evaporation.

 simple thread tangled on a brayer

Foto/Fiber 2012

 Foto/Fiber 2012 Bonus #3
This is a great opportunity to receive art while contributing to a worthy cause. Get it on!

Wednesday, February 15
10 a.m. Central - 3:00 p.m. Central
Make a minimum donation of $100 directly to the
American Cancer Society through Fiberart For A Cause,
choose one of 90 photos, and choose one of
90 Fiber BONUSES by a specific artist.

Thursday, February 1610 a.m. Central - 3:00 Central (or until SOLD OUT)                                                                                   Make a minumum donation of $50 directly to the
American Cancer Society through Fiberart For A Cause and choose a photo.
Your Fiber BONUS will be chosen for you at random.

There will be drawings for fiber art throughout the event.
100% of donations are made directly to the American Cancer Society
through Fiberart For A Cause.
Info HERE

SDA Confluence Exhibit- Ann Hall Richards

Repetition Meditation Revelation

This exhibition sent the viewer into the realm of desire satisfied, taken up and beyond measure.

Rapunzal, a self portrait (includes her hair)

detail of above work

Repetitive of design leads one into a meditative state. Standing mesmerized, when I thought I couldn't take in another exhibit! I was caught in a web of design, an environment. 

Leaves are captured and sewn, or encased in organza. 

Multiple silk pods, stretched on forms, cascading in a fiber waterfall. Very kinetic. 

A flock of black birds perched, created with fiber forms. 

This dizzying array of forms and sculpture unified in materials, texture, creative imagination and the ability to delight. 
more here

Dreams and Effort plus Perseverance

I have been sending images to a couple of my favorite magazines for awhile. Don't even know exacting how long. One of my absolute favorites is the lovely slightly weightier pages of Surface Design Journal. This is where I go to see how other artists push fiber arts into ART.
This is where I go to feel justified at my efforts to do ART. This is one of the magazines that create the juice of inspiration. And I have just been published in their Exposure section. A Great BIG juicy surprise, a pure delight!
(see picture of collaged article and piece in row on right)