Pecans - the series.
A couple of the online groups I belong to are doing art pieces in a series as part of the challenge for the year. For one of the groups, Free Spirit Artists, I decided to do a series on Pecans. This fall my dad died. He was a wonderful man and a great loving dad. And one of his passions was pecans. They had a HUGE very old pecan tree in front of their house and he even planted a pecan orchard. He subscribed to magazines for pecan growers. Oh and he enjoyed eating them as well!! (something we had in common!!) So, I decided to do this series in honor of my dad.
So far the series will depict the different stages of the pecan. 1) sapling, 2) a grown tree, 3) mature pecans on the tree limb, 4) pecans on the ground at the base of the tree - ready to harvest 5) a barren tree after all the pecans and leaves are gone 6) pecans harvested and halved, etc and 7) the piece honoring my dad - it will have his photo in B/W transferred to silk organza, pecans, perhaps other photos, and my mom's pecan pie recipe.
Well....I have done a bit on this series already. Ordered screen prints, cut out templates, etc. But dyeing the fabrics felt like the project is actually underway. After a couple of days of dyeing....here are the basic fabrics I will be using in all of the pieces in this series (6 or 7 planned)
They are all dyed in a 6 step gradation. Here is one of the brown all set up to batch.
And here are the completed dyed fabrics --
Browns (yes I know some of them don't look brown but they are named "brown" something) - From left to right...Tobacco, Cocoa, Golden Brown and Dark Chocolate Brown
Ordinarily this would be the end of dyeing...however after just completing the snow dyeing for another challenge...I HAVE to do some pieces for this series!! Hopefully I'll get to that tomorrow if not starting some today.
A couple of the online groups I belong to are doing art pieces in a series as part of the challenge for the year. For one of the groups, Free Spirit Artists, I decided to do a series on Pecans. This fall my dad died. He was a wonderful man and a great loving dad. And one of his passions was pecans. They had a HUGE very old pecan tree in front of their house and he even planted a pecan orchard. He subscribed to magazines for pecan growers. Oh and he enjoyed eating them as well!! (something we had in common!!) So, I decided to do this series in honor of my dad.
So far the series will depict the different stages of the pecan. 1) sapling, 2) a grown tree, 3) mature pecans on the tree limb, 4) pecans on the ground at the base of the tree - ready to harvest 5) a barren tree after all the pecans and leaves are gone 6) pecans harvested and halved, etc and 7) the piece honoring my dad - it will have his photo in B/W transferred to silk organza, pecans, perhaps other photos, and my mom's pecan pie recipe.
Well....I have done a bit on this series already. Ordered screen prints, cut out templates, etc. But dyeing the fabrics felt like the project is actually underway. After a couple of days of dyeing....here are the basic fabrics I will be using in all of the pieces in this series (6 or 7 planned)
They are all dyed in a 6 step gradation. Here is one of the brown all set up to batch.
And here are the completed dyed fabrics --
Browns (yes I know some of them don't look brown but they are named "brown" something) - From left to right...Tobacco, Cocoa, Golden Brown and Dark Chocolate Brown
Greens - Left to Right...Emerald, Dark Green and Forest Green
And Blues - Left to Right... Well actually they are so close it is difficult to tell the difference even in person! But I used Cerulean and Intense Blue. I took these down a couple of gradations because I wanted some light blue sky with "clouds". I'm very happy with the results.
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