Art Every Day Eighteen • Grey Heron

Day Eighteen of Making Art Every Day.

My Grey Heron motif sketches from this summer have came back into play today. 

The Heron, a beautiful creature I wrote about in a previous post. You can read it here. The small and large silhouettes will make a lovely stamps. I went ahead and made graphite transfers to prepare for carving. 

 AEDM brings together a group of creative people committing themselves to more creativity for the month of November. Stop by Leah's website, Creative Every Day and check out fellow artist and their creations for Art Every Day Month.

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There is a Grey Heron on my desk....what I am working on....

Here is a peek at what is on my desk. I am currently playing with the heron as a motif. Birds are also a favorite in my design, along with the flowers you usually see in my work. 

Honored as the creator of light the heron is a graceful creature. This bird is such a pleasure to sketch and design with. With its lovely lines and curves it lends itself to  beautiful pattern possibility with its simplicity. The heron represents strength, patience and long life. A heron is said to be curious, inquisitive and determined. I like that.

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Silkscreening Finally!

I finally achieved a goal that has been on my list for a long time. I am learning how to silkscreen. I have one more class to go. 

I just let it become this "thing", this mystery for the longest time. Funny how we let things like that become the big scary monster!!  So now I have tried and worked in all types of printmaking with this being my last to embrace. Why did I wait so long? 

I just loved it!!! Here are some photos to share from my fun experience.

Exciting to see my tree motif printed. I printed the design on paper only in this round looking forward putting ink on fabric. 

I love this printmaking process. No longer a mystery.

Instructor with demo of  photo emulsion application.

Burning images to the screen. Trying a few images all at the same time as  test.

Washing the screen.

Putting a ribbon of paint on to the screen. Decided to try the tree motif first.

Flooding the screen.

Here are the printed tree motifs, I love the strength of silhouette. 
As much as I enjoy design, surface pattern design to be exact, there is nothing like the "magic' of creating art with your hands. 
In surface pattern design I have realized that it is possible to find balance between computer work and working with your hands. 
I had a fabric design teacher, who eventually became my friend who always said "keep your "hand" in your work, don't lose that. 
With that said make the computer your other "favorite brush" use it as an art supply or tool. 

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