Note to self (thinking outloud) #1

Here are some of my guides - tour guides? - on this leg of the journey.
Here are some receptors - initiators? - I am open to whatever is incoming.

Each has some special significance for me, even if I can't put that significance into words right now, or don't know what that significance might be yet.

Here looks like a pretty good place to start something.

Writing note to self (thinking outloud)... or else I will forget.

#1. Hand painting in monotone on sheer fabrics, to overlay on other plain fabric, OR, hand painting in monotone on plain fabrics, to lay under sheer fabric. A double-layered design experiment. A variation on this could be a stamped cloth with a sheer overlay, with a handpainted design which works on top of the stamped design below.

#2. Making stamps and hand stamping cloth.

#3. Same color on same color. Unstamped cloth with same colored stiching. Making the cloth more about surface texture.

#4. Sketch and paint. Still!

#5. All over fabric print designs.





























("I am the vine, You are the branches." Stitched in San Juan de Dios hospital, November 2008.)

Keywords:

GOLD
JADE
MOON
ASIA/ORIENT
WINGS
FUNGII
UNDERWORLD
CAUGHT

Directions:

* Historically inspired collections.
* Ethnic influenced cloth.

2/3D forms

Test palette combinations that appeal to self currently:

indigo, carmine, cream, slate,
indigo, slate, cream, garnet,
bronze, gold, sapphire,
cream, lapiz, jade, gold,
ecru, black, white
ecru, chocolate, white
ecru, ecru
ecru, kaolin, vanilla, white
ecru, strawberry, raspberry, biscuit, chocolate,
white, vanilla, fushia, biscuit, chocolate,
powder blue, slate, ecru, brown
tangerine