What I’m Working On
I have been burning some new screens on my Thermo-fax to take along to Texas:
Since I’m not quite sure where I am going with my painting, I decided to go for some texture screens. The dark black ones (and the photo that opened this post) are photos from Alaska that I photoshopped. Included are harbor scenes, nets, buoys, ropes, and various “junk” piled in a Coast Guard yard.
In the bottom right hand corner and center are a page of text and the same text transposed into dingbats, large and small, that I did in Word. And last are geometric shapes I drew with a carbon marker.
Remember my Surface Design Associate exhibit entry? I thought it needed a “real” binding, so I made a trial run of a blue/green 1/4″ binding. I didn’t want to spend the time and fabric to make a double-fold binding, so I just cut and folded strips and pinned them up around the piece on the design wall:
Even taking into account the glare from a flash, it’s just not to my liking. Although it picked up the blue in the piece and was a nice contrast, I really didn’t like the abrupt halt to the flow of the piece. I decided to do a zigzag with rayon thread and then painted the exposed batting and edges with copper paint:
It’s subtle and sensitive to the piece while still making a nice sturdy edge. I also added a bit more hand-stitching to bring those big hand-stitches all the way to the edges:
Lynne, Natalya, and Norma – Thank you. The power of a preview with a digital camera! No one will be more surprised than I with however my painting turns out during my residency. No pre-plans at all. Take care, V.
I like it so much better without the blue binding. It’s a great piece!
what a lovely piece Virginia! great decision on the finish too…
I’m glad you decided against the binding for your Fields and Forests piece. It is really lovely finished like it is now.
And your screens look like fun. Can’t wait to see what you do with them.