The snow is flying outside and I am hunkered down inside. I couldn’t be more ready for some creative time alone, in my studio, to go further inside, to explore, to play, to make some new work.
a new piece in progress
I’ve had 11 shows this year (4 are still in progress) […]
“City Lines”, 29 x 36 inches, Dye Drawing (cotton fabric, dye, stitching, batting) gallery wrapped over canvas stretcher frame, © Ayn Hanna
My first home in New York City was a shared loft space on the north side of the Williamsburg bridge. I rode the subway into the city and back each day […]
“LineScape #36 (Bridges)”, 42 x 69 inches (deconstructed screen-printed cloth, batting, stitching) ©2014 Ayn Hanna
LineScape #36, my most recent work in this series and the largest so far was one of 2 of my works that was accepted to the Quilts=Art=Quilts show at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, NY. The […]
Saturday was all about the eco-dyeing and printing and it was Hot. I wrapped and cooked 11 bundles, fabrics I’ll use to make some wall pieces for my upcoming show “Must Love Art”.
As the sun was going down, I felt like a kid that had been playing in the dirt […]
Dry Run in the Living Room
With just a few weeks to go before show time, last week was all about setting up the booth and figuring out display(s) for the wholesale and retail shows, and making a list of everything we still needed (tools, tape, biz supplies, etc.) to add to our shipment.
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“Big City” (6 stitched deconstructed dye drawings stretched and mounted around 20″x20″ canvas panels) ©2014 Ayn Hanna
T-3 weeks ’till showtime – Booth #719 at ACC Baltimore!
The booth is fully consuming the living room, the sewing machines are whirring along, more boxes keep arriving daily with stuff we’re going to need to […]
Detail of one of my newest Dye Drawings on cotton fabric ©2013 Ayn Hanna
Space reserved and Contract signed? √
Booth, floor, and lighting ordered? √
Pre-marketing Post cards designed and ordered? √
Holidays? What Holidays? (Just kidding.) Actually, we had a very nice quiet family Christmas Day and fun New Year’s Day […]
A few months ago, I had assembled a group of dye drawings on 13 large silk screen frames and spent a day printing these out on cloth, sharing a few photos of that work in process in a previous post.
Below are some of the fruits from that day of printing in the studio:
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, […]
Yellow. It seems my most favorite color lately. Some have argued that it’s actually green.
LineScape #22 – Window Seat, 18.5 x 30 in. © Ayn Hanna
A deconstructed dye drawing on fabric
with thread as well
LineScape #22 – Window Seat (detail) © Ayn […]
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