Iron Oxide Series

Iron Oxide # 6

Iron Oxide #5

Iron Oxide #3

Iron Oxide #2

Iron Oxide #1

These are more from the Iron Oxide Series done on my handmade paper combined with rust dyed fabric. These could not be included in the One Cause auction because they contain plant material that cannot be mailed overseas!

One Hundred Collages - A Couple More

Iron Oxide # 4

Iron Oxide #7

Handmade paper, acrylic paint, rust dyed cotton, rusted washers, gel medium.
Mounted on watercolor paper.

More for One Hundred Collages

Legend Rock #5

This piece will be going to the One Cause auction.

Handpainted, block printed and screen printed cotton, layered with hand dyed cotton and batting. Machine quilted and bonded to watercolor paper.

The rock fragments are petrified wood chips gathered last summer at the Petrified National Forest.

One Hundred Collages - Finger Paint

Fingerpaint # 6

This piece will be going to the One Cause auction.

The background fabric was created with a "fingerpainting on fabric" process I have been using.

The screenprinted text is from a ledger book containing minutes of the Township Board for Burleigh County, Christiana Township, North Dakota - 1911 - 1912.

The paper and thread beads are handmade.

One Hundred Collages Art

Cottonwood Leaves #2

Cottonwood Leaves #1

I have been working on several smaller sized series, hoping to create some work good enough for the One Cause online auction for cancer.

I have two 8 x 10 pieces and 3 postcards from the Cottonwood Leaves series.

The cotton broadcloth is monoprinted using a Gelatin Plate process and "bug nibbled" Cottonwood leaves I gathered late in the summer. They have been layered with hand dyed cotton and batting, machine stitched and bonded to watercolor paper, then embellished with brass leaf beads.

Cottonwood Leaves #1 will go to the One Cause auction. The other will go off to one of my galleries.

One Cause - One Wednesday - One Hundred Collages

I am delighted to be a part of this project!

Here is a list of the participating artists:



Natalya Aikens
Pamela Allen
Laura Ann Beehler
Liz Berg
Pokey Bolton
Laura Cater-Woods
Jette Clover
Jane Davila
Jamie Fingal
Gloria Hansen
Leslie Tucker Jenison
Lyric Kinard
Jeanelle McCall
Linda Teddlie Minton
Karen Stiehl Osborn
BJ Parady
Judy Perez
Cynthia St. Charles
Virginia A. Spiegel

For more information, visit this website.

Mail Art Project - Week Seven

Fossils on Pink

Pieced cotton fabrics. Screen printed with fossils.
I have an extra postcard to mail out this week to one of my blog readers!

This week, the extra card will go to Linda in Waterville, NY.

If you would like to be included in future drawings to receive a piece of my Mail Art, please send me an email with Mail Art in the subject line. Please include your full name and mailing address.

More Sprials

Legend Rock IV
Here is another recently completed piece in the Spirals Series.

Handpainted cotton and cheesecloth. Block printed and screen printed with Thermofax screens from Legend Rock in Wyoming, Saguaro National Park and Painted Desert National Park, both in Arizona!
The quilt is hand tacked to a stretched canvas that has also been painted and printed with the same imagery.
The hand stitched rocks are covered with orange and green lichens!

Size is 20 x 16"

Ancient Spirals

New Work!
I recently completed this piece, which I am calling "Ancient Spirals".
Hand dyed and hand painted cotton broadcloth and cheesecloth.
Thermofax screen printed, machine and hand stitched.

Embellished with granite fragments collected this past summer on the trail to Timberline Lake.
Size is 16 x 20" - quilt is wrapped over stretcher bars with a hanging wire on the back.

The Thermofax screen spiral is from this photo I took at Saguaro National Park in Arizona in 2009.

Wild Turkeys

Apparently it has been a very good year for turkeys in this area.

There are several flocks that are roaming the neighborhood in search of food and water.
One flock is very large - about 30 turkeys - a lot of them just adolescents (below)

There were so many I could not zoom out enough to get them all in my picture!

Sewing Scraps

Literally

Every once in a while I get an itch to sort through my scrap box and sew random pieces of fabric together.

This group is all fabric that has been hand dyed or hand painted, printed, etc. by me - no commercial fabric here.

Some of my scraps end up as Mail Art.
These - I think may become placemats. I've dyed some red to mix in.
Possible Christmas gift in the making.

Glenn St. Charles Memorial Service

The memorial serve for my father-in-law, Glenn St. Charles was held at "The Cove" - which is located directly on Puget Sound with a lovely view of the Olympic Range (not visible this day, however.
The day of the memorial service was a downpour. It rained 1 inch per hour and resulted in a flood of the parking lot. People attending had to be shuttled to the building through a 12' wide 8" deep "river" that ran through the parking lot.

In spite of the bad weather, there were close to 350 people in attendance.

Glenn loved collecting old things. The room was decorated with some of his collections (Indian rugs, and furs) as well as some really gorgeous floral arrangements.
His daughters arranged a lovely display of photographs and the many awards Glenn received throughout his long and purposeful life.

Here is a picture of Glenn at age 81 with a huge Lake Trout he caught in Canada.

Glenn died peacefully at his home on September 19 at age 98. My husband Joe was at his side.

Glenn, was born in Seattle December 15, 1911. He graduated from
West Seattle High School in 1930.
Soon after graduating, Glenn took off with a few friends to Story,
Wyoming where he met his first wife Marjorie Kneisel. Marjorie passed
away nine years after the birth of their daughter Linda.
Glenn met Margaret Remick in 1948 at an archery club meeting and
married her the same year. Together they raised five children, Linda,
Jay, Suzanne, Joe and Rochelle, who in turn blessed them with six
grandchildren; Robin, Erin, Adrienne, Sophia, Alex and Ben and 3
great grandchildren; KJ, Jake and Breckin.
Glenn's love of hunting wasn't limited to the woods. We all spent many
weekends at our ocean cabin near Queets, Washington where the whole
family hiked up and down the beach hunting for Japanese glass floats.
Many in the community would remember Glenn at the Midway Swap
Meet. At times he would arrive before it opened, roll under the fence,
and pay on his way out. He helped the sellers unpack in his hunt for
treasures. He also loved to go to antique and artifact auctions as well as

gun shows, flea markets and yard sales.

Glenn's love of archery, bowhunting and the outdoors, lead him on a
life long path helping to establish bowhunting for future generations.
In recognition he received:
The Compton Medal of Honor, National Field Archery Association's
highest award
Boone and Crocket Club, Emeritus member
Induction into the Archery Hall of Fame
The first Ishi Award, highest honor of the Pope and Young Club.
The Karl E. Palmatier Award of Merit
Glenn established the Northwest Archery Company, designed
Thunderbolt and Mickey Finn Broadheads, the St.Charles Backquiver,
and the Thunderbird Recurve bow.
Along with many articles he authored two books, "Billets to Bow" and
"Bows on the Little Delta".
Perhaps his greatest achievement was the founding of the Pope and
Young Club in 1961.
This magnificent raven sculpture was carved by Glenn. He worked with wood a lot - he made archery equipment for many years.

Mail Art Project - Week Six

"Goldfinch"

Hand dyed cotton, block printed and machine quilted. Screen printed goldfinches have been fused and machine stitched in place.

The Thermofax screen of the birds is from a photo I took in our backyard. We get a lot of Goldfinches at our feeders in the summer. They are all gone now, though.

Fall Roses

Not much was blooming when we visited Seattle last week, but a few nearly naked rose bushes were bearing a blossom or two. These caught my eye.

Crows in Salt Water Park

Blackbirds or Crows?

Is there a difference?

I'm not sure . . . .but I was really happy to have the opportunity to take a lot of really good pictures of these black birds during my visit to Salt Water Park.

This one was especially busy with a worm or a twig - never did figure out what it was picking up with it's beak. Never saw it eaten so I assumed it was a twig. Now that I have seen the close-ups - looks more like a worm.

Salt Water Park

My visit to Salt Water Park was chilly and breezy.

Some of the leaves were turning.

Salt Water Park in Washington

We have returned from an extended visit to the Seattle area.
One cloudy afternoon was spent at Saltwater Park.

Where I enjoyed watching the waves.

Salt Water Park in right on Puget Sound.

Mail Art Project - Week Five

Cottonwood Trees

These are all hand dyed and screen printed with photos of local cottonwood trees.

This week's extra postcard will be going off to Hilary in Australia. Her name was randomly selected.

Would you like to receive one of my Mail Art postcards? Please send your full name and mailing address to me in an email. You only need to send your mailing information once. I will keep it for future mailings.

Sauerkraut Making

This was the first time I had ever participated in the process of making sauerkraut (other than the olfactory participation that is unavoidable). Dad would slice up an entire head of cabbage using the old board fitted with three blades. The shredded cabbage would be dumped into the crock and sprinkled with salt.

Then, the cabbage would be pounded with a meat mallet to release the juices.

We added 7 large cabbages to the crock, one at a time, pounding and adding salt after each one.

By the time we were finished - the crock was full to within 2" of the top and the cabbage was covered by it's own juices. The cabbage is covered with a cake plate that sits down inside the crock held down by a heavy jug, packing the cabbage while allowing the liquid to flow over it.

Dad says it takes about 2 weeks for the fermentation process to be complete. Then, he will freeze it. Mom used to can the sauerkraut, but they have discovered they like it better with the fresher flavor of frozen kraut.