Randomly Pieced Canvas

As my work grew to embracing more texture, it was enjoyable to use a beefy canvas that was dyed, cut in random strips and sew the strips back together.  This gave me a new fabric to work with that created a more interesting textural surface.  Once the fabric was back together, it was recut and spontaneously sewn into a new composition with raw edges and random shapes.  This piece has been constructed in that fashion, but is not in its final incarnation yet.

Hand dyed canvas attached to canvas with large random stitching

Textural Pages

Funky stuffed books or journals intrigue me. Could be the nostalgia of my grandmothers old recipe books, with papers attached everywhere.  Notes, new recipes written out, all sorts of joined treasures inside the book as the pages overflowed.  This is probably my obsession towards textures in my journals and art books.  Assembling them is a free and flowing experience.

The subject of this textural post depicts the sides of stuffed and collaged journals.  Always a bit of texture that explodes from the sides of the journal.  At the end of August, exploration will start on textures coming alive from the side or journals using paper ceramics mixed with my digital textural surfaces.

Experimenting with Texture

Doing the textural thing seems to be a habit in my work.   Everything is growing texture.  My focus is to build layers and look for ways to build textures that are similar to forest environments.  There is a feeling and an experience built on texture that is alluding me.  In these pics you will see compositions built with digital images printed on alternative surfaces.  

Layers of Texture

This digital textural piece was built with layers in Photoshop CS5. The way this piece was created is part of the "Digital Collage Workshop", that will be posted for members later this month. For a sneak peak, I have included the layers that are blended in this piece.
















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Real Texture to Digital Texture

Using a piece from a textural page in a journal, I separated the picture of the page element into 3 layers in Photohshop CS5, textured the layers with some of my patterns, then combined the layers for the final images.

Paper as a Textural Base

Trying this to see if I can figure out how to blog from my iPad:) not sure about the image size in the post, but here goes.

This weeks texture comes from a piece of handmade paper. This paper was printed for a journal. The image was combined with blending modes from 2 images. The first image the paper and the other image a detail of a page in Book of Forests 2.


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Location:Phoenix Airport

Digital Elements in Textures

Using dyed burlap, beads, copper mesh, copper wire, brass wire, digital prints on canvas, lutradur and organdy creates the textures is this page from one of my art books.

Building Textures with Beverage Cans

These textures come for a couple of sections of a box that is constructed from digitally printed beverage cans, felted balls, waxed linen thread and beads.  The sections have been digitally manipulated to combine the 2 sections.

                                         This pattern is from a section of the embellished can.

Digital and FIber in a Textural Surface

Using an alcohol transfer on watercolor paper as a base,  this textural surface was created by layering 4 other elements.  A piece of dyed burlap,  rolled and wrapped with crochet became the second addition.  The crochet piece grew to cover the surface and when finished, pieces of hemp were randomly tied to the crochet with pieces of digitally printed tyvek made the final part of the textured surface.

Altered Papers

Dying paper, digital printing and embellishing brings us to this weeks textures.  The materials in these surfaces contain digital prints on dyed paper, tissue paper, vellum and lace papers.  Once other papers,  fabric and burlap were dyed, painted, printed and torn, they were stacked 4 or 5 together and assembled with embroidery thread, beads, gel medium and wire.  

Detail