Collagraphy seahorse.

I have experimented with different grounds on cardboard.I have ended up with a wood-sealer in 4 layers.I heat the layers with a heating gun to get bubbles and cracks.It is ok to skratch in it for details.I mixed my black with alizarin to get the tone I wanted.
I have cut 15 plates and are on the way to put the ground on all of them.Have a plan for putting 9 on the same paper.A series of small drawings.Probably mostly line work.
I have also tested the woodsealer on wood to create fields of tone, but that will be for later.Must finish this first.

Chalk drawings

hmm.

Machinestitch on paper

Collagraphy on watercolor on wallpaper

Variations again.

Etching ,inkdrawing, relief,stitching and watercolor.

Paperstitch .Series of circles

For now I envision a mix of lithography, stitching and etching.

Embroidery/Sewing

A slideshow of latest sewing

bambi side2

bambi side2, a photo by omdahl1960 on Flickr.

Some testing out of ways to stitch

Stitches

Japanese lanterns and Lajka the Russian Dog.

A one-armed dress. Sketching out ideas.Linoprinting and hand-embroidery on tarlatan and starched gauze.

Every spring I look for the "Japanese Lanterns" in my garden.The bright orange rots away and leaves the sceleton of the "lantern".Some not completely, which is the case here.

Working with this dress has reminded me of this process, so I went out in the garden just now to get them.

Kind of an analoge to how memories also fades, and are not nessecarely how they once were.

This dress is like a fading memory of a "dress". So it has lost some on the way, hence the one arm and the see-through quality of the fabric.I have a feeling of something found, that will just decompose into dust if I blow on it.

I am considering sewing a "proper dress", and treating it the same way, to get the contrast stronger.In that case I want to try plastic.

My first attempt on plastic is an image of the the Russian astronaut-dog,Lajka.

Seeing this famous photo always make me rather sad,thinking about this brave little dog out there alone.

Still sketching.

Layers of embroidery.Top on tarlatan, others on paper and cardboard. Tarlatan dress needled together as sketch.Hand-Embroidery.Some watercolor.

Wire-drawings and embroidery together.

Tarlatan-dress with embroidery and watercolor.

Sewing cardboard

Print from sewed cardboard. Sewed,scratched and punctured cardboard

Experimenting with incorporating stitches onto collagraphy(cardboard) plates.Using them as they are or printing "intaglio" from them.