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Lupine Flowers

 

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Colorado is so beautiful! This picture was taken last year in Vail. We were enjoying beautiful weather, scenery and flowers while our fellow Oklahomans were suffering through heat and drought.

CKRLike the Woodland Sunflowers from a previous post, I used these purple Lupine flowers as inspiration for a painted scarf.

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I mixed up some sodium alginate to use as resist but I made it too thick.  (I was pretty impressed with myself that I was able to mix it at all!)   You can see that the line kept its color very well.  However, in several places the line was so thin that the dye bled through.  In spite of its imperfections, I still really like this piece.

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Stained Glass

Last week I was at a Church camp for youth who are considered leaders or future leaders in the Methodist church.  They are all truly inspiring.  Each one has talents and abilities but most of all they have the most amazing compassion.  I feel so fortunate to have shared a week with them each summer for the past four years.

Since I had promised myself I would keep up with this blog, I had typed out posts in advance and set them to publish at a later date.  If the Stained Glass scarf below looks familiar, that is because I meant to have it post on July 10 – I accidentally typed June 10.  Oops!

So, here it is again (if you’ve already read it).

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This was my experiment with mixing colors.  To this point, everything I had made had more pastel colors.  I was going for darker jewel-tone type colors in this.  People tell me it looks kind of like stained glass. I drew the shapes free handed. My only consideration was to keep them about the same size.

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The water soluble resist had been dyed black.  As you can see, all the color washed out.  That was frustrating!  It was fun mixing the colors but they didn’t really come out the way I thought they would once they had dried. 

Lessons learned:  mix the colors much darker than you think you need.

The good news is – this scarf will go with just about anything.  I think it is one of my favorites to date.

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Woodland Sunflowers in Vail

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Last summer I had the privilege of visiting the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, Colorado.  It was beautiful!  When I took some pictures of the flowers there, I had no idea I would be turning those pictures into silk paintings.

I’ve looked and looked on the internet to find a name for those cute little yellow flowers.  The closest I could come up with is Woodland Sunflowers.  I’m not sure that’s right.  In fact the Woodland Sunflowers I found on the internet didn’t have the two-color petals.

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I traced the picture of the Sunflower onto the silk.

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These pictures were taken before the scarf was steam-set.  You can’t really tell that the top is a light green color (really that should be on the bottom) to simulate leaves and the bottom (which should be the top) is light blue to simulate the sky.

This is my first attempt at using resist to create the outline of the flowers.

This scarf was given to my Dad’s cousin.  She is an artist and I was so honored that she wanted one of my scarves!

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Not Meme’s scarf

 

This scarf was supposed to remind me of my grandmother.  It really didn’t work for me though.  It needed to be grayer and softer.  She had a very soft spirit.

When I get better at this painting stuff, I’ll make another one to remind me of her.

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