Progress on the pillow portraits/fabric collage

I have taken these apart numerous times. I think the top one is about ready to be backed and stuffed. I want to stain it as well...but that is flat out terrifying! This pillow....I think I need to remove the circular poofs! I am pleased with the piping, though! And I like the circle within the square.

It is so slow! and uses so much thread ! What you see on the second pillow is over 4 hours of sewing, starting with the circular cut out, some of it just waiting to be taken out.

More small works in process

Squeezed in this afternoon, before the party begins in the gallery.

Kim Madonna I think.

On the Kathleen Baroque piece I am still trying to figure out how much runching : just a piece or a whole frame?

Watercolor and MIxed Media

A new series seems to be beginning, just as the work load heats up for Reader's Art in the Susan Hensel Gallery. I must NOW put these assemblages away to make room for the food table for tomorrow's closing party of IN THE HOUSE OF THE MINERAL SPIRITS and for the installation of Reader's Art. I'll at least get them tacked together before the onslaught,

A sabbatical nears its end...

At the core of COLOR OF CONFLICT, at the heart, at the start:

COLOR OF CONFLICT

a collaboration between Susan Hensel and John Hensel

In this year of sabbatical, as I have wandered seemingly aimlessly at times, old themes emerged as they always do. Themes of nostalgia and aging as seen in the series of assemblages with the antique clothing et al. And now, the anti-war themes emerge as well, carried by yarn.

COLOR OF CONFLICT, now on exhibit at Susan Hensel Gallery

reception: DECEMBER 17, 7-10pm.

Black nostalgia

And the nostalgic collar quest continues.

Red diatoms among the Jellies? The collar/jellyfish return

I meant to put these photos up yesterday...but sleep called much too strongly! The red collar piece is almost complete...need to draw more tendrils and fix/affix the yarn. The media are acrylic paint, pastel, graphite, dyed textiles, handspun yarn on paper.This one is clearly just begun! I am excited by it, but must leave for a spinning workshop soon. Maybe I'll manage to assemble the first bit before I go so I can come home and get real dirty! (Pastel and graphite!!! under the fingernails and ground into the whorls of the fingerprints!)

A new red dress