The Results from More Landscape Painting

Posted on March 25, 2016 by ruthlane under sketch book

I hope you aren’t tired of seeing these little landscapes I have been painting. They make great greeting cards so I have made a bunch to sell at the shop. If you haven’t seen these before, I learned the technique from Jude Atkin over on Start2. These are the paintings that I showed you last week with the plastic wrap still stuck to them. I added some details and then fused them to cards.

They always look better than I expect them to since sometimes when you pull the plastic wrap off, they don’t look all that good. I usually use a colored pencil to “fix” the mountain tops and then add in some watercolor paint to add some depth. Zed thought it might be a good idea to show everyone how to add the details as she didn’t think her “artistic capabilities” were up to it. So I think I will do a short tutorial on that and post it over on The Felting and Fiber Studio soon. Hope you have a good weekend!

Painting More

Posted on March 18, 2016 by ruthlane under felting, sketch book

I wrote a post today about painting landscapes with salt and plastic wrap over on The Felting and Fiber Studio. I decided to paint some more today and I thought I’d show you what they look like in process.

You can see that they don’t look like much when you first start so if you’re trying this technique, don’t give up and don’t work on them too much. I was a bit more free the first time I did this technique and I think those will be better than this set but we’ll see. Just put the paint on quickly and apply the salt and plastic wrap and leave it alone. The colors in these are less diverse than my last set as well. So don’t try to picture what you want in advance and I think the results will be better.

The other thing I have been working on is making tutorials from the projects that I wrote for my book. These projects didn’t get into the book because it was too long. So I am finally getting around to getting the tutorials together and turning them into PDF’s. I’ll be selling them on The Felting and Fiber Studio site and maybe here too if I get really ambitious. The first one is for this moose.

Level 1 Experimental Machine Stitch Class in Montana

Posted on March 17, 2016 by ruthlane under class

The deadline for signing up for the Level 1 Experimental Machine Stitch with Gail Harker is March 25th. We need more students to sign up for the class to run and I hope you’ll consider it if you’re in the area. I would also appreciate it if you would spread the word to anyone who might be interested.

You can sign up for the class here.

It’s a great class and you will learn so much about your sewing machine and how to use it effectively. All the samples here are ones I made in that course plus lots more.

I really enjoyed the class and I hope you will sign up! I’d love to meet you there 🙂

Deconstructed Screen Printing

Posted on March 11, 2016 by ruthlane under surface design

My local surface design group met this afternoon and we screened tons of prints from the screens that I showed you a couple of weeks ago. I also had added some thickened dye to my paper lamination screens and Louise brought some screens with dried dye as well. We had a blast. These photos are either of wet prints or partially deconstructed screens. The ones that I made 2 weeks ago did take a while to break down since they had dried for a while.

This isn’t even close to the number of pieces we printed. I will show you more once they have been washed. This is one of the techniques that we keep coming back to because we love the unpredictable results. We printed on silk, cotton and paper.

Hope you have a nice weekend and thanks for stopping by!