A few months ago, I took a workshop from Laura Cater-Woods called Off the Wall and Onto the Page. The idea is to create a set of panels that can sit on a tabletop, rather than hang on the wall.
Even though my creation is still hanging on the wall, I had a great time making it. Each panel is about 6” x 8” and is made of 2 layers of fast2fuse. I started by ironing a piece of hand-painted fabric to each panel, and then started to play with the different materials I had brought to the workshop: Silk rods** that I had unrolled and painted, dyed soy-silk roving, assorted beads, and embroidery floss. I also used Bonash (a powdered fusible product) and foil that Laura had brought.
** Silk rods are created when the silk is unwound from the cocoons—in the process, the silk goes over a metal rod, and silk builds up around it. The silk tube is cut off and sold, usually in packages. I think I got mine from Treenway Silks.
I didn’t have a plan in mind, I just placed things, played around with the placement, and decided whether or not I liked what was happening.
To finish off the pieces, I used some silk that was left over from my Silk Shibori quilt. I ironed fusible web to the fabric, cut it with a wavy blade in my rotary cutter, and wrapped and fused it on for binding. With a quick topstitching, I was done.
Almost done, that is. I don’t know about you, but I’m horrible at coming up with names for my work, and can’t think of what to name this. Any suggestions?
Silk rods and soy-silk roving stitched on with embroidery floss, embroidery stitch decoration, and beads
Fused, topstitched binding, you can also see the foil adhered with Bonash in the upper left corner
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Beneath The Sea
Wonderful piece and use of fabrics with embellishments.
I am bad at naming too. Some things speak for themselves and others, stump me. The colors remind me of the aurora borealis and butterflies.
Can you imagine me with ink blots, lol.
Debbie
I find titles hard too… the British artist John Virtue gives his paintings numbers landscape 145, landscape 146 etc. rather than names. Presumably he has a visual index somewhere to know what’s what!
I love it. It reminds me of a river flowing and changing.
I am not good at names either. Sorry I am no help there.
Debra
This reminds me of an exotic paradise jungle with large colorful birds and flowers sweeting the air with song and fragrance. I’d name it Tropical Explosion.
Beautiful Lynn. I love y9uor colors. That silk really sings.
Beautiful work!!!I thought it looked like a wave, w/ all 3 panels viewed together, & also like a DNA strand that was uncoiling into beautiful colors, so my name for it would be "DNA Wave"
Beautiful work!!!I thought it looked like a wave, w/ all 3 panels viewed together, & also like a DNA strand that was uncoiling into beautiful colors, so my name for it would be "DNA Wave
very beautifully done
very beautifull
How about Rainbow serpent, or sinuous