March | 24
March was action packed, let’s jump right in.
Marbling |
When marbling (and laying your paper/fabric/3d object on your liquid drawing) you typically want to keep your workspace as still as possible. That is, unless you want to create pattern shifts on your piece. Cue the Spanish Wave technique— rumored to have been invented by someone marbling whilst intoxicated, unable to keep their hands and body steady as they rocked and swayed.
The Spanish Wave is achieved by printing your item in a slow, controlled motion while using the item (paper) itself to rock the liquid image underneath… just not so hard that the design breaks.
Here’s me giving it a whirl:
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Floating Color | student work by Vanessa Price:
Student work by: 👯 two arteests who wish to remain enigmas of the internet 🙌🏼❤️
Capturing Color | student work by Liberty Worth:
Collaborative Dye Session |
My new fellow-dyer + artist friend, Nicole, aka Dutraville came out for the CC x TAC Marbling Workshop aaand to the studio for a dye session. It’s just the best— geeking out on color formations and pooling puddles of dye with someone who loves it as much as you do. We spent equal parts talking : dyeing, and by that I mean we did both the entire time.
Or I should say, Nicole did most of the dyeing— and I was her ice cube hype-girl.
Check out the pieces 😍
The Hollywood Second Act Club | Podcast | with Alexis Walker
I had the pleasure of sitting down with my dear friend, Alexis, for Episode 3 of her new podcast 🎉✨🍾 where she chats with showbiz peoples (currently and formerly) doing their damndest to transition out of the film and tv world, and into what their hearts have dreamed up next.
For the record, I hope to keep my toes in the water in La La Land… but like, just my toes— not my whole being anymore. If I’m going to work for anyone for 85 hours a week, I want it to be meeeeeeeee making all the art!
Video dump of moments™ |
The time it takes me to shoot videos → upload → sort → edit → crop → set to music → write copy → and post = time spent not dyeing, marbling, painting, sewing, and generally focusing on the art I want to make most. I can’t keep up with creation without having to sacrifice actual studio time. In an effort to be a tid-bit more efficient, I’m introducing a monthly video dump of moments™ for Journal posts… cause they can’t all be their own mini movie 👍🏻
In this month’s collection:
✨ Craft Contemporary x Textile Arts Los Angeles “Color Alchemy” Collaboration Series: marbling silk workshop — take me back!
✨ Carrageenan (seaweed) marbling size in the making
✨ Freestyle passes on a marbling tray, accompanied by images of the finished pieces
✨ The state of the current studio dropcloth— still available for anyone willing to wear it to the Met Gala 😜
✨ Decorative fans: marbled, glittered and bejeweled for friends at Craft Contemporary and Textile Arts | LA
✨ @thatladyv ‘s beautifully tatted digits marbling like she’s casting a spell with a wand
Fans and Permission Slips | for the CC x TAC workshop ⤴
As I create, I make countless decisions that affect the outcome of my pieces. With each choice, I can decide to play it safe or to try something new. Sometimes I invest days, weeks or months on a single piece of art. When I do, it can suddenly be tempting to not take exciting risks… because if things go sideways, I could create something un-sellable/useable/wearble that would take more time and energy to save from the trash pile than I care to give. That said, I still love to challenge myself {and others} to really go for it. What can I say? I’m curious.
The idea of a physical “permission slip” I got from Rob Bell, one of my favorite creatives. For many years he was in the business of traveling the globe, giving people verbal permission slips to take a chance on themselves. A few years ago he realized he needed his own. Like, to: Rob ❤️: Rob— because he also wanted something terrifyingly new. Then he wrote and self published Where’d You Park Your Spaceship? Which I love(d).
This batch of slips is: one part abstract painting, one part truncated quote I read in an article (author unknown).
What to do with a stack of leftover mordanted paper? Pour ink and dye all over, then turn them into tiny paintings (to follow).
Gotta run, ✌🏻❤️🌈 Tifanie
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