Working on this now

 Take a garbage bag of canvas scraps. Add one stencil, plus sponge and acrylics. 

Printing this now

 Text. Tone on tone. Time.

 Marks. Memory.

 The deliberate, then the random. Intent versus chance.

 

 Impermanence, awareness. Loss. Resolve.

Stenciled Tags

"You get there just by doing," I once heard poet Audre Lorde say.

"Your job is to keep your hand moving."

To me that means having a list of small, manageable tasks to pick up when time allows. 

The new scarves begged for new tags.

Love these green

I sponged watercolor through the Balzer Designs Mini-Circle stencil, let them dry, 

Next, I used a thermofax screen and acrylic paint to screen my logo on top.

 

 Some "failed" business cards (look closely and you can see the stripes the dying ink cartridges made)  called out for colored pencils and markers.

My life-time secret: I love coloring.

 

  I stitched these to the other side. Here's one front and one back:

 

As much fun as a recess on a sunny day.

Stencil Happy

View towards my studio window

 Monday was a vacation day. This meant someone else was home to walk the dog, and I could stay at my Lowell studio, happily printing away. I used a new stencil to rework a half-dozen silk scarves. One failure, but o the successes.

green and black on yellow

This was pale yellow with gold circles

pale sky blue reinterpreted with black, blue and purple

Now back to sewing. Boro scarves: two commissioned, finished. Delivery tomorrow.

Printing away

I'm taking advantage of these perfect fall days to play with discharge, paints, and printing.

This afternoon, after teaching, I'll work on black velvet.

The first results are on sale at Stebbins Gallery in Harvard Square, on Church Street. It's open regularly now, and full of work by local artists.  Check it out: Thursday and Friday 6-8, and Saturday and Sunday afternoons til 6.