Accountability & Commitment Issues

I'm putting out the feelers for the possiblity of working with another artist for some help! I'm really wanting to stay on task more and work more towards goals. I'm wondering if there any of my peers that might be willing to help in holding more accountable to goals and achievements. To help keep me going and focused? Someone that could help to touch based weekly or bi weekly...

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks

Painted Fabric...ta da!

Here is my sampling of Painted Fabric. I used Versatex Paints from dharma. I really think I'm liking this compared to the Gelatin plate printing only because of the dyed affect I feel I can get with by painting. I started by wetting the fabric.. ringing it out slightly and then painting with full strength paint with a sponge brush that was wet with water. I did find that the more I brushed or used more water the lighter the color was... I think I like some of the heavier (More pigmented) pieces.

I keep trying to work with the bright colors but its just not flowing for me.. so I'm sticking with the reds blacks... moving to Browns Blacks and greys today. More to be posted again later.

Vacation at the lake

Well I'm Back... I had a very restful vacation at the lake this last week. My mom came up and we had a great mother - son week. The weather was beautiful and seeing the bald eagles alone was well worth it. Its just amazing that our body's just run so much and take in so much during our working lives that when you truely get out into the wilderness where there are no cell phones, no TV's and no internet that you body just say's... Be Still and relax! I did some Gelatin plate printing. My first time of making this crazy thing. Of course it cracked and broke on me but I thought... hmmm go with the flow and work with it. so I did and here are my works so far.

This was my favorite so far. I was able to get 7 prints from this plate. I used a lot of Versatex Printing Inks and a lot of black in this one. You can see the progression below. I used a lot of stamps and did a lot of "ghost prints" So far I'm happy.

I have some from Acrylic sheets I will post later and some painted fabric. All fabrics I cut down to just 10x13 in size to work in a smaller format. Feel free to ask any questions of any of the techniques used.

Group Meeting

I have been meeting with a group of wonderful fiber artists and this last meeting we held it at the Indianapolis Art Center. These pictures of of Giant Allums which I just love and love how they appear at night with the camera like they are floating orbs... hmmm I gotta figure out something to do with these. Enjoy

oooops I did it! LOL

Broke down and got some DPN's to try some basic socks.... So this should be interesting with these rather large hands... I know I was kicking and screaming because I wanted to use circulars.. but the problem is when your using circulars is that you have to have 2 sets the same size... well that I don't have.... The Yarn is Malabrigo Kettle Dyed Pure Merino Wool Worsted weight.