Showing posts with label Grain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grain. Show all posts

Thursday, January 01, 2015

Day 1 of the 60 Day Bird Journal Challenge!


See the red circle in the lower left hand corner?  It's highlighting an old enamel dish pan filled with organic corn for the birds and the fat squirrel that's made it's home in our attic, I named the squirrel Trouble.

Since it's mid afternoon as I post this there are no birds out and about, I expect to be seeing some closer to evening time.  For now they are holed up in those arborvitae's to the north of our dog run, I could hear a few peeps over the sound of the traffic.

I'm still working on my poem for Day 1 and will post later this evening, other activities are pressing at the moment, like the making of black-eyed peas with greens for our New Years Dinner.  At the moment hubs is grinding organic corn for the corn bread he'll make to go with our meal.




Saturday, June 09, 2012

Friday, June 01, 2012

WIP - Corn No.'s 51 and 52


Corn No. 51 (That was then.)


Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) ~ It has been awhile since I've worked in the horizontal plane. Right now I'm taking a break from the sewing machine so I my eyes can relax a bit.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

WIP- Bins


Charcoal on gesso on baltic birch plywood.


This is the second time I've tried painting over charcoal, ok I'm using a brush to paint with, and I have to admit I absolutely loathe it!  First off I find myself wanting to paint 'inside' the lines like a coloring book, mistake number one, and secondly I keep expecting my brush to respond like my palette knife and well we all know that's not going to happen, mistake number two.  So when the first coat of paint is done drying I'm planning to go at it again with my palette knife and this time ignore those line!

Acrylic on baltic birch plywood.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Corn No.'s 45, 46, and 47 - Framed

No. 47 - SOLD!!! - $250.00
Framed to 8x8x2 inches.

Corn No. 46 - SOLD - $250.00
Framed to 8x8x2 inches


Corn No. 45 - SOLD - $250.00

Framed to 8x8x2 inches

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

No. 47

Corn No. 47 - not quite finished with this one, I'm not happy with the stitching to the left of the large bin.

Friday, March 09, 2012

WIP - Granary



Granary - digitally printed fabric, machine and hand stitching, aurfil threads.

I sure hope I spelled that correctly, this is part of my "ode to corn" series.  I will be stitching more of these in the coming days.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

WIP - Bin


WIP - Stitched up this small bin piece after I rearranged the studio this evening.

Monday, September 21, 2009

A few more brooches


Prairie bits and pieces


Been busy getting ready for this weekends show, this is just one of the brooches I've been making for this weekends show. Check out the Octagon Center for the Arts Fall Festival in Ames, IA this weekend!

Compost dyed cotton fabric
Machine stitched and embroidered
1.5 x 2.25 inches

Saturday, June 27, 2009

WIP


Trying to depict wheat field behind the grain bins, I've been biting off the temptation to paint the bins black!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

WIP - Paint on Paper

WIP - Oil Pastels on water color paper that was painted with Golden Acrylic Paints. I'll let the oil pastel dry overnight and lay down more color tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

WIP No. 32

WIP No. 32 Now that my wet studio is cleaned up I can paint fabric once again, I made this piece today in celebration of having a surface to work on!!!
18x22 inches
Setacolor Transparent Paint, Shiva Paintstiks, Natural Muslin 7878

Monday, April 20, 2009

My Bird Sketches Suck!!!


I had a sketch of a bird, and it's foot pattern, set off to the side and still managed to muck it up!!! I drew this with a sharpie on water color paper. I think I need to go back and study those Robin and Crow pics I took a few weeks ago!



Untitled Bird 5 x 5 inches

It needs something, aside from a better looking bird!!! I'm not putting another bird to the large panels until I get them where I want on smaller pieces.

Monday, April 13, 2009

In Progress


In progress I have a lot of landscape to cover here, it's quite a change from the smaller pieces. I've started working on the left panel so that the two panels are unified. Eventually I will start working on the right panel again.