Dreaming Spirals
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| Blog Name: | Dreaming Spirals |
| Url: | http://www.lizplummer.com/blog |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | textile art, art, creativity |
| Description: | My textile art blog where I talk about how I create my art, the things which inspire me and sometimes tutorials. Lots of printing, Gocco printing, dyeing, stitching, colour and fabric! |
| Popularity: | 147 Followers |
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A tour of my studio
I rearranged my studio a few months ago and thought I would take a few photos and post them … it is perennially untidy and disorganised and I still can’t remember the new places I stored everything but hopefully it will stay this way for a year or two at least. I do seem to enjoy moving my stuff around as much as I do using it! This is my printing table, with a large (8’ by 4’ I think) piece of MDF on top to make it big enough to screen pieces of fabric without having to keep moving them along. It is comparatively uncluttered in this photo, believe it or not – you should see it at the moment! The MDF is actually resting on two tables at right angles to
I rearranged my studio a few months ago and thought I would take a few photos and post them … it is perennially untidy and disorganised and I still can’t remember the new places I stored everything but hopefully it will stay this way for a year or two at least. I do seem to enjoy moving my stuff around as much as I do using it! This is my printing table, with a large (8’ by 4’ I think) piece of MDF on top to make it big enough to screen pieces of fabric without having to keep moving them along. It is comparatively uncluttered in this photo, believe it or not – you should see it at the moment! The MDF is actually resting on two tables at right angles to
Autumnal Kitchen
Aggh, how have I not posted for so long? Half term, that’s what! DH recently painted the kitchen. I decided on the colour for the walls and woodwork – he liked yellow; I wasn’t sure, but we needed something warm and light because it is north facing and rather damp. So I took my inspiration from an autumn leaf on the cherry tree and this is the result:
Aggh, how have I not posted for so long? Half term, that’s what! DH recently painted the kitchen. I decided on the colour for the walls and woodwork – he liked yellow; I wasn’t sure, but we needed something warm and light because it is north facing and rather damp. So I took my inspiration from an autumn leaf on the cherry tree and this is the result:
Gocco printing using a plastic frame
A few weeks ago, Guenther Panenka of www.patchworkshop.de sent me a sample of a plastic frame he had developed which will fit in the Print Gocco machine to enable its use with unframed thermofax mesh. He also sent me a few different carbon pencils. So yesterday, I decided to give them a go! I had a play with the pencils, shown below:
A few weeks ago, Guenther Panenka of www.patchworkshop.de sent me a sample of a plastic frame he had developed which will fit in the Print Gocco machine to enable its use with unframed thermofax mesh. He also sent me a few different carbon pencils. So yesterday, I decided to give them a go! I had a play with the pencils, shown below:
Look what they did to these steps!
As you probably know if you read this blog regularly, I love to walk. Walkit.com is a website which devizes walking routes through lots of major cities in the UK. I read Walkit.com’s blog on Google Reader and found this wonderful video they had posted… turning a set of steps into a piano!
As you probably know if you read this blog regularly, I love to walk. Walkit.com is a website which devizes walking routes through lots of major cities in the UK. I read Walkit.com’s blog on Google Reader and found this wonderful video they had posted… turning a set of steps into a piano!
Altering Moleskine journals
Last year I traced part of a medieval woodcut print of a cityscape using one of the Dover books, and made it into a Gocco screen. I’m not sure that the screen I made was very successful because I didn’t shade it enough to give it dimension and the resultant prints just weren’t very clear. I printed several Moleskine journals with it and put them in my Etsy shop. Here is one so you can see what I mean:
Last year I traced part of a medieval woodcut print of a cityscape using one of the Dover books, and made it into a Gocco screen. I’m not sure that the screen I made was very successful because I didn’t shade it enough to give it dimension and the resultant prints just weren’t very clear. I printed several Moleskine journals with it and put them in my Etsy shop. Here is one so you can see what I mean:
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