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Making Hay With orders to fill and multiple shows on the horizon, it was great to have a week of almost summer-like weather to get the dye pots bubbling, and the steamers steaming. The result: 32 eco-dyed scarves and 17 black patterned scarves are now “in process” in the studio, soon to be finished and […] Two Art Business trips – check. Teaching a 2 Day Workshop – check. My first big solo show in Boulder opening the night before my workshop – check. All of these things happening this month – priceless (and a little nutty too)! Hardcore evidence of the law-of-attraction in motion. silk eco-dyed with roses, […] water water everywhere 2 weeks ago it was the extreme heat that caused schools to be closed for a day. This week it was the rain. Upwards of 12 inches – as much as an average year’s total – in just one day. And that, on top of an already steady 2 days of rain, […] Friday: New Legacies Show Opening Reception The work in this show just keeps getting better every year. It’s fun to walk through the exhibit and see work by nationally (and internationally) recognized artists and in some cases, see work that I’ve seen on the web or in a magazine and hoped I would one day […] Sitting here watching the snow continue to fly for the third straight day – with upwards of 2 feet already on the ground – I’m thankful that this storm didn’t arrive until Monday. Our weekend workshop was a great sunny experience, even though we did battle the winds all day on Sunday. Thanks to RMCQ […] My artist talk on Monday night for RMCQ went well – despite the winter storm warning (AND the men’s college basketball championship), we had a pretty good turnout. Not sure that the basketball championship really kept anyone from attending, although I’m thankful I wasn’t also competing with a season premiere of Downton Abbey. April 12th, 2013 | Tags: artist talk, eco-dye, textile art workshop | Category: About Me, Art Business, Being An Artist, Dyeing Fabric, Eco dye, Lectures and Workshops, Teaching | Comments are closed Art Cloth: Unique Hand-Printed Fabric is the workshop I’ll be teaching this coming weekend at the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride, CO. "4 Corners" (detail), Art Cloth (breakdown dye screen printing on cotton fabric) ©Ayn Hanna This year we’ll be using procion MX dyes and breakdown screen-printing techniques (also known […] Various paraphernalia used for breakdown screen printing process I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen family too. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks of fire, rain, and family. The comings and goings of my Spanish family who thankfully visit from Madrid each summer and some rare vacation time for me […] I’m still basking in the warmth of all the appreciation I felt from the audience during my artist talk Monday night at the FRCQ meeting in Denver – what a wonderful group! I shared my life journey of becoming an artist, my path from printmaking to textiles, and discussed my creative process and inspiration as […] the exterminator told us. “They can make themselves small to squeeze through the tiniest of holes in the floor and then “poof” back up like umbrellas.” "NYC Journal", Artist Book, 9"x6", original woodcuts and linocuts on rice paper, text printed on rives heavyweight, hand bound with linen cover) We’d been having a problem […] |
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