Paper casting

Does anyone actually read this blog? I'm just interested as I'm assuming that I am the only one. If you are reading it, could you leave a comment so I know. Cheers. Here are some more paper castes that I made. They have been painted and then rubbed with treasure gold to bring out the texture.

Working and Workshops

Here's the progress on my 'Tree of Life.' Time
to start on the foliage and to make a decision about the inside of the disc. I plan to free-machine in a gold-green colour, but am not sure about the design yet.





Above is the detail on the rim of the disc.
I did a workshop on the weekend using paper casting.

Images are created by wetting handmade paper and pressing it into moulds. Great fun. Here is a wall hanging I have started using paper-castes, silk paper and panne velvet.



Detail: Dragonfly.

Being productive

I'm on holidays now and so I had time to spend a whole day sewing. My piece for the upcoming competition is well underway. The felt back and the disk are finished. Some sewing still needs to happen on the disk though. I have almost finished the tree for the foreground, minus foliage. Its interesting how you try and problem solve before you start and its really hard, but once you get going and something doesn't happen the way you expected, you just go, 'oh well, I'll do it that way, then.' So simple. Here's the tree I've been working on. Obviously the white vilene will be removed when it is attached to the rest of the piece. In the middle I was going to embroider a rising moon and a boab tree. But the vilene has gathered from all the stitching. (Next time 2 layers for stabilising.) So instead I'm going to work the boab on another piece which will be positioned behind the tree and show through the hole. Will probably use some stuffing also.