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Monochrome Diary, July 2016.
Tag Archives: creative process
Tide is the Rhythm (let there be).
Artist at Work, July 2016.
Sat, sipped, pondered: will this look okay in red? July 11, 2016, a moment before diving in.
The project in question: Spider Lily Red, at a delicate transition from pencil-on-paper to acid-dye-on-silk.
Artist at work, 2005, Kawasaki.
“Is it ‘flowing’?”
Yours truly, trying on one of her prototypes, which, a year later, became a piece called “Aqua Dragon Dress 2”. What she’s standing in is called “pre-relocation mess”.
Autumn 2005, Kawasaki, Japan.
May and I – a studio view.
Dye test in April.
Been conducting a little dye test between visits to local cherry trees at sundown. Also, spotted a few swallows swishing through the hazy late pm light today, the very first of 2016.
Nature as an Inspiration – March 7, 2016
Recap. Wing Dress (2007-2011).
Creative Process Update – January 29, 2016
Life. Mimics art / and vice versa.
Almost Transcendent Blue
Abstraction in Nature – December 07, 2015
Rather large pencil drawings of a spider lily petal are inching toward completion. Captured this evening at the copper gold moment right before the sundown. This is for a series of dyed silk garments named “Spider Lily Red”. It is important that I get it right while on paper, so that when I move on to painting on silk, my brush will be reasonably sure-footed.
