DRAWING ON FABRIC | Somewhere

Somewhere

Meet "Somewhere". It's one of my abstract, semi-representational drawings on fabric with Derwent Inktense colored pencils and ink blocks.  Somewhere is one of the first paintings that I began connecting to my many journal sketches. Somewhere is an image that came to me in my dreams about flying over the land that I live. In it, I fly free over the land in the my imagination represented by the sky.

Notes
Somewhere is on a 16 x 20 inch piece of treated cotton fabric. I treated the fabric with a combo of 2:1 parts water and textile medium. This helps the dyes bond to the fabric.

For the sky, I applied the ink blocks in navy, purple and cobalt onto wet fabric and then painted it with a flat angle paintbrush. The ground is sun yellow with a little mustard applied over it. The ink block daubs are poppy red, chili red and baked earth.

Check out the Derwent products in the Fabric Painting section of my store, HERE.

NEWS | Art on Demand in Philadelphia MOMA

So, I just love Philly's Museum of Art's Art of Demand program.

(http://artondemand.philamuseum.org/)

Through it, you can purchase print reproductions on paper and canvas of some of the great artworks from their collection. You can also get them framed! Costs are not too bad from $25 (16 x 13 inches, $35 (22 x 18 inches) and $85 (3 x 24.25 inches) for paper and canvas.

My favorites are of course, their collection of impressionism and post-impressionism AND their vintage exhibition posters. These are the posters from their past exhibitions! So cool. What caught my eye was the poster from their 1972 Silkscreen exhibition. It's really nice!

Check it out:

http://artondemand.philamuseum.org/detail/459931/pma-exhibition-poster-silkscreen-history-of-a-medium-1972

Love it! I'll definitely plan to make a purchase. I'll be in Philadelphia for this year's SAQA conference this April and will demonstrate one of my new ventures with fabric painting at MakerSpace. More to come on this soon.

INSPIRATION | Abstract Expressionism - Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis (1909 - 1979) was technically the first African-American abstract expressionist painter and teacher.

He lived in Harlem all of his life and was born to Bermudian parents.

He maintained studio space at the Harlem Art Center and participated (along with Jackson Pollock) in  art projects for the Works Progress Administration or WPA. The WPA was a massive effort in the 1930's under FDR's New Deal agency to put unemployed people back to work.

CANCELED | Drawing with Dyes on Fabric | SAQA MakerSpace

Sorry folks !

I will NOT BE ABLE to attend the SAQA MakerSpace event on April 1st!

Not to worry, though. 


More to come, so watch the blog...