all finished and done today :) yey!

WIP Hand Tufting workshop lead by Svetlana Shigroff.

our collective art with tim. acrylic on canvas

marker and color graphite

I'm trying a variety of products in an attempt to both age an ink jet image and to make it look "misty".

I am drawn to the look produced using encaustic wax, but the health hazards make me cautious about heating wax without effective ventilation.

Anyone interested in using cold wax might like to look at oilandwax.ning.com/ for helpful advice.

My objective is to use images that look as though they are memories of the past and I have to say that everything I have tried so far is a disapointment.

I hope to look into using resin next.

Grease Alley, an industrial backwater neighborhood in a blade-runner/fifth-element genre. These shops back onto a trash and old parts-strewn gully, where the junk skiff comes by to pick up broken components, industrial leftovers, and the occasional "borrowed" part.

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mixed media collage works, in acrylic. I have been burning it up lately, and these are stages of works in progress. eventually i want to make time lapse gifs.

While the husband is playing volleyball, I played in the workroom

the vibration of the machine on the wood caused these 'dunes', I just loved it.

Otra comunión en marchaaaaaa....

A couple layers of gesso on top of the paper scraps.

Made for Dawn Sokol's Art Journal Stimulus Project. (www.dblogala.com/)

Patchwork furoshiki bag - bit of a work in progress as I'm testing the seams with all detritus of daily life!

The back of the Sweater, uber neat no?! Blogged here: misskatie-littleredsquirrel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/whats-...

Láminas de la exposición "Work in Progress", en la Escuela de Artes de Almería.

Fotografía de Javier Alonso.

Midori szerűség készül.

Mosaic box in progress

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just discovered i can put these straight into a wall in a hole made with a pin. Would like to make hundreds, a whole wall of them.These are in my studio.

Different pics taken in different times during works

The completed back of the sweater

Blogged here: misskatie-littleredsquirrel.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/whats-...

Still need to figure out how to illustrate the string going up over the pulley and down around the axle...

Yesterday I was home alone and listened to my audiobook, as I pieced this together - it is odd and uneven and and strange and totally without a theme and it sort of just happened...

well, at least it is colourful! :-)

I don't know if it is going to be a baby blanket again; I might chop it up into strips and sew them together with some other fabric... maybe I'll just keep this one going without a plan whatsoever.... it will turn into something at some point, I guess?!

perm. marker & acrylic

I'm hoping to work on this one a bit more today - upload photos of it this evening. I'd much rather paint than sleep.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Using a clay model pressed into forma foam ( or memory foam). Acrylic paint.

8x8" Getting there on little Oscar. I am not following his colors exactly since I don't have his exact shade, so kind of doing my own thing.

Blogged: paintingintrees.blogspot.com/2012/02/in-studio_22.html

...work in progress....nothing beats the immediate gratification of drawing!

Well, hotrodding ia about taking a car and buidling it up... You bring what you got to Saturday donuts and next week's work will show more when you get together again.

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Still only about 1/2 way there - and a lot of clean-up to do now - but overall I'm rather pleased with the progress.

Ink jet prints treated with a variety of surface treatments.

I am trying to made these images look both aged and "misty" as though they were memories from the past.

The most effective so far are the ones I coated with Dorland's Wax Medium, although these needed a hot iron to make them effective.

For helpful advice about using this product, I can recommend oilandwax.ning.com/