Susie Monday

Artist, maker, teacher, author, head cook and bottlewasher.

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The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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    « Synchronicity's Ground Rules | Main | All Natural »
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    All Natural - Not

    DateSaturday, October 21, 2006 at 04:10PM

    OK. I can't do two things at once. Like take photos and teach a technique.  I forgot. Sort of. Anyway, here are three snaps taken during the rock-dyeing, with my examples, the rock and one teaching shot.

    rockdye1.jpg

    What we did:

    Wrap and rubberband silk scarflets around different sizes and shapes of limestone rocks.

    Paint each piece with low-water dye mixtures, using Procion MX dyes that are mixed colors -- rust brown, Chinese red,  bright green, rust brown were the choices I premixed with a soda ash solution.

     

    rockdye2.jpgMicrowave for 2 minutes.

    Unwrap and wash, revealing interesting shapes, textures and colors. 

    rockdye3.jpg 

     

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    this is very cool!
    November 30, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterjude

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