Finally able to get some work done at my studio. A friend recently renovated her kitchen and I wanted to make her a gift. I heard she liked dragonflies and thought that they would be a great image to work with. I carved a large dragonfly in 2 parts, (wings and body), to print on red and white striped tea towels. The wing span is about 8″. I used brown textile ink with a bit of black mixed in, and oddly enough they looked very black. Even when I used straight brown ink, they looked black. Guess I have a lot to learn about this medium. Fortunately the experimenting and learning is a whole lot of fun! I folded the tea towels below in half so you can get an idea of the scale.
I printed a couple of cotton table runners with Christmas designs. I carved Christmas ornaments, and a stylized Christmas tree. Here are just a couple of photos. I’ll post more once I get the color corrected. The green runner is a strong lime green color in real life, and the trees are printed on bright red. When I looked through the viewfinder, the color looked fine but changed drastically as the image came into focus. Sometimes I am just stumped by technology.
While I would love to sort out these technical issues immediately, I’m a bit too busy in the kitchen. If it’s November, it must be time to make fruit cake. I spent the week-end cleaning, sorting and slicing dried fruit. I expect to be able to start baking tomorrow. I need to juggle my time so that I can keep working in the studio this week as well. Here’s hoping!
Time To Be Inspired 
Love the dragonfly. Really beautiful. 🙂
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Your dragonfly is beautifully cut ! I don’t know what photo editing you have Terri , but if perhaps you have on your ‘adjustments’ an option to alter ‘Hue and Saturation’ then try it and have a go at moving the sliders along each bit and see what difference in the colours it makes , then save the image you are happy with .
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Thanks. I’ve upped the saturation but can’t find a hue adjustment. I wasn’t shooting in raw either. After I get some cakes in the oven I’ll play with it some more.
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Terri – the dragonfly is super – great image. Glad to hear that the fruitcake is underway; means Christmas can’t be too far off. I love the anticipation of the holidays!
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Me too. But at the same time I’m already fretting about how exhausting the whole thing can be!
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Love the dragonflies. Use any photomanipulation software to change color saturation when you aren’t happy with the result. It’s very easy.
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Thanks. When I went to the “adjustments”, I didn’t even know where to start!
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Wow… lovely. You are very creative!
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Thanks!
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I like your post about the dragon fly.You are so creative.Thank you very much for your post.
Ranu
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You are very welcome. Thanks for your continued support!
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