This is both about growing colour quite literally as plants in my garden and also about using them. I dye fibres with natural dyes and use them to "paint" with. This is how I make my landscapes , mostly of the North Wales countryside Mae Tyfu Lliw yn enw addas iawn i'r 'blog' yma. Yr wyf yn cael hwyl yn tyfu bob math o flodau i Helen i'w defnyddio. Mae hi yn creu lluniau bendigedig, mae y lliwiau yn hollol naturiol, ac felly'n gweithio'n dda iawn yn rhoi lliw credadwy o'r wlad o'm cwmpas
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Two New Pictures and Helfa Gelf Open Studio
Yesterday I picked up my other two new pictures from the framers ready for Helfa Gelf Open Art studio event in September. . When I picked these two up I felt excited and I am so pleased with them both. The Slate Fence is probably my favourite but the Snowy Fields done one afternoon in the kitchen (because it was too cold to work in my studio) while looking at the snow covered hills is probably the nearest I get to painting at location. It is has a slightly different frame from the other dark brown and woody looking with a slight texture and is a very quiet picture. Chanel (one half of the picture framing team -the other is Tim) and I both feeling very tired fantasised about a little quiet minimalist room with a cup of coffee a book and my picture. Not got time to write more I have got 6 people coming for a Dyeing the Blues day on Saturday and my studio has to have a major tidy to fit them all in
Those are just beautiful, Helen!! I especially love the snowy one (although maybe only because we're deep into summer here and the 6 foot drifts of snow are only a memory...)
ReplyDeletemany thanks pshihlady-I agree all that cool snow is good to look at when it is very hot.
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