Weaving Numbah One

         

     

Exploration in partial weft, cotton, 15"x72" 

I realized that I've only shown yarn, but I haven't really posted any pictures of my actual weavings...so here you are! These aren't the best photos, but I'm hoping to get some better ones by the end of the year. This was from out first assignment - structure & tool. I did a two-way ombre dye for the warp (ochre-green on the top half and a lavender-periwrinkle on the bottom half) and the weft was all dyed the same color. My tool was essentially my shuttle, and as you can see there are moments where the weft was not shot all the way across, and this was where I ended up using two shuttles. The orange is supplementary weft, although I don't think I'm all to pleased with the excess hanging out. Despite that and some color issues I'm pretty happy with it though! I'm hoping my final for this class will be even better.

On a side note, now that I've taken this class I desperately want a loom, but is it worth getting one now? Oh the difficult decisions in life!

Update:

 I finally took some better photos of the weaving, enjoy!

Alphabets Galore!

This was my first time making a repeating pattern and I have to say, it was pretty fun! The pattern here was an assignment for my Handletters class. We had to make a pattern based on alphabets for one of Spoonflower's weekly competitions. I think I'll be making more patterns in the near future :)

Places and Spaces

These were from my last Illustration II assignment, which was to create three environments that conveyed a specific mood (she gave a list of 6 descriptive words to choose from). The three I chose were "simple", "cluttered" and "quiet". Each were done in watercolor with some colored pencil to finish.

tangents

I hope to be like this woman one day..
via COMPAI

Weekends are deadly

Huzzah for procrastination! It's a lazy sunday and I don't want to work at all, so instead I'll post some work. This is a couple years old, but it's a piece that I'm particularly attached to. It's painted in encaustic, which I played around with a lot near the end of my senior year but I've used it less since I went to college. I miss it though...one day I'll start painting again!

Letters

These are some samples from my handletters class this semester. I never knew how fun creating new letter forms could be!

Explorations

Long time no blog! Springtime is here again but it seems to hiding still, only a couple of nice days but now it's gotten cold again. Warm weather will come soon enough though, I guess it just takes time. Anyways, it's been a long time since I've updated so here we go! I know I keep saying this, but really, I will get better at posting more regularly...one day. ;p

These are some pieces that I did for my Illustration class, but were explorations into new mediums - or at least mediums that I was unfamiliar with. Despite some trouble in the beginning, I think these turned out well, but there's always room for improvement.