DRAWING ON FABRIC | Nothing Between Us

Meet "Nothing Between Us". Here's one of my latest drawings on fabric (I call these fabric paintings) with Derwent colored pencils and ink blocks.  Nothing Between Us is dedicated to my parents and their great marriage. Going on over 45 years, my parents have remained committed to each other and have wrapped themselves in a cocoon of warm, embracing, endearing love.

My Notes
Nothing Between Us is on a 8 x 10 inch piece of treated PFD cotton Kaufman white 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 this piece, I primarily used colored pencils of colors navy, cobalt blue, yellow, and green. This work uses a little bit of brush work but not much because I really didn't want any blending.

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DRAWING ON FABRIC | Guiding Light

Guiding Light

Meet "Guiding Light". Here's one my drawings on fabric (I call these fabric paintings) with Derwent colored pencils and ink blocks.   In Guiding Light, I explore my need to find clarity in a world of tangled webs. This imagery reflects a need for simplicity and purposefulness in a world of obligation, unnecessary tasks, and overall chaos.

Notes
Guiding Light 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.

The entire piece uses an "impressionist" technique I'm developing in which I create these markings of ink colors next to one another without blending them. This technique is easy and can produce very impressive pieces with no brush work! The colors used in this piece are sun yellow, apple green, purple, fuchsia, sea blue, and field green.

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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.

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