Textures of Book of Forests 1 Continued

Textures featured here are another back to back section of Book of Forests 1.  The top page is a digital print on watercolor paper.  On top of the watercolor page is a pattern taken from the other print.  This pattern is printed on a bark paper purchased from an on line paper company.  It doesn't have the same texture as my amate bark paper, so now my bark paper prints come from my hand made bark paper.

Here is the opposite side of this group of pages.  It has a watercolor paper digital print base. Pieces of watercolor paper are cut with crochet added around the cut shapes.  These elements are then attached to the watercolor print base and attached to the front side before folding and adding these pages to the accordion style book.

Five Layers of Texture

Combining crocheted hemp, a digital print on cheesecloth skin and 3 digital prints on lutradur this piece will be assembled using beads and silk yarn.  The print is the same, although there are differences in the printing of the different surfaces.  The bottom layer of the piece will be crocheted hemp and the other 4 layers will be assembled using beads as spacers to separate and add depth to the layers.  Once the top layers of lutradur are completely assembled with the cheesecloth and hemp a heat gun will be used to melt out other sections of the lutradur.  This allows the cheesecloth skin to show through and changes the configuration of the lutradur texture.

Crochet as a Main Textural Element

Crochet is something that appears in my work often.  When I was 7 my mother taught me to make my first ripple afghan.  While the ripples were not exactly in the same place in every row,  it was a great learning experience.  Of course now I know the experience taught me to stay away from patterns and ideas that were measured and you could visually see the mess ups. but when I was 7 it was frustrating and I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it right.

These textural surface were created with alternative digital prints that have been cut and then crochet has been used.  The first piece (above) has digitally printed beverage cans, strung on thin hemp and randomly crocheted with a double crochet stitch.  The piece measures 5" x 9".

This piece is created with a base of crocheted paper wrapped wire. There is an added element of a cutout of digitally printed watercolor paper with hemp crocheted encasing the cutout.  It measures 4" x 8".

The other part of the watercolor paper cutout from the proceeding piece, was encased in crochet of heavy hemp and mounted on painted board, with a digitally printed cutout on watercolor paper.
It measures 4" x 6".

Digital Print on Lutradur

This detail of Mariposa Grove 3 shows a digital print on melted lutradur.  This print has been stacked in several layers on a crocheted hemp base.  The lutradur is sewn in place with french knots and beading.

Net Overlay Texture

Building a textural surface in layers is one of my favorite ways to create.  This image is digitally printed on lutradur that has been heat distressed slightly.  The heat changes the edges and puckers the surface. On the top, a piece of polyester netting has also been heat distressed and beads and crochet with various threads and thin yarns are added to the netting.  The surfaces are connected with metalic thread.

Net surface.

Hemp Texture

This weeks textural surface comes from crocheted hemp.  This is the bottom layer for an upcoming piece based on a Kauri tree from New Zealand.  This piece when finished will be hung in a Yavapai College Gallery Show at the end of May.  My pieces will be on exhibit starting May 21, 2010.  More information will be coming up on that show.  Visit my kathyanneart blog to view the image that will be assembled on this crocheted hemp.

Digital Print on Lutradur

This weeks textural surface is created with a digital print on a light weight lutradur.  The print is then heat distressed, torn, layered and assembled with beads.  The individual pieces are woven into crochet hemp and brass wire is wound around some pieces of the hemp.

Textural Surfaces Finished

The finish of a textural piece show here is created with crocheted hemp, brass wire and twigs assembled to a digital print on finely woven mesh mounted on hardware cloth. The composition of this piece changed from earlier in the week with a base of printed wire mesh added and some other planned elements not used.