One of my favorite plants in the new dye garden is the Foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia-Family: Saxifrage (Saxifragaceae). I’ll be adding more varieties in the spring because I really appreciate how well it prints. And those lovely Wild Cranesbills! I’m trying to propogate the wild ones that I find into my garden. We’ll see if any of them took well […]
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.
One Four Challenge 2016 Week 3
Elizabeth Jenson inspired me to download a free photo app called Pixlromatic. It’s pretty cool. I really like this vintage effect, a combination of Lucas and Metal. I’ll be missing this One Four Challenge! I was so sad to learn that next week is the last one. The crew has dwindled down to only a […]
Arting My Way Out Of The Trump Funk!
After all was said and done, I named this 10 inch textile collage After All. It’s from my stash of deconstructive screen prints. I still have so many I didn’t make any new fabrics with MX Procion dyes this season. Most of the contents of my outdoor studio is finally, mostly, tucked away in the […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 