It’s Friday again! Time to link up with Nina Marie’s Off The Wall Fridays! I used PRO MX REACTIVE DYES: Eccru, Lavender, Chartreuse and Chinese Red on a variety of fabrics that were left from the summer in a pile already soaked and dried with soda ash. This year’s snow dyed batch is quite different from previous batches. […]
Author: turtlemoonimpressions
As a native plant gardener, the natural world is phenomenal and so much of the man-made world - our architecture, our cities - are stunning accomplishments. They exist hand in hand in both beautiful expressions and sometimes disastrous manifestations.
Our entire existence with the natural and the invented is intertwined – each dependent on the other, even as my art evolves, each breathing in the wake of the other.
As a mixed media artist - textile, paper, printmaker - various substrates and mediums - surface design is one aspect of the process that I love. I thoroughly enjoy the play with color, value and construct, particularly the improvisation which starts with one thing, an idea, a glimpse of a vision, perhaps something that captures my eye for a moment in time and it grows organically. I become focused on whatever piece I'm working on and follow my muse to find my way.
March, One Four Challenge, Week Three
For Week three, I returned to the original image and created a B&W version. I simply tweaked the exposure and gamma and increased contrast & decreased brightness in PS CS3. As usual, I played around with a variety of edits for hours until I finally settled on the simplest, quickest of them all. […]
Living With My Art
No fancy photos today. Just a simple pic from my Samsung Galaxy Android. No apps. Just a little corner of my own bedroom with my newest quilt that has no title yet. Do let me know if you think of one! Linking up with Nina Marie Sayer for her Off The Wall Friday Blog Post. I […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 