Melting Ice Cream (wrappers)

I saw this somewhere and I thought I would take one for the team and eat an entire box of ice creams. That of course was before I stopped eating sugar and grains BUT I still have the ice cream wrappers. In another burst of team camaraderie, I thought I would try painting and melting these little puppies.
Here is the self explanatory process I followed:

 

The wrapper

                                                       Time to paint with artists acrylics

                                                 

                                                       Two pieces before the heating process

                                                              Heated with a heat gun

What I found was that the ice cream wrappers melt/blister into smaller bubbly sizes as in more textured than Tyvec while holding their shape better as in not curling into a ball - they stay flatter. They are also easier and more fun to acquire except now I will have to buy the ice cream for other people and ask them to carefully remove the wrappers without tearing. I like this product a lot but now will have a bit of a resentment while other people eat ice cream I bought!!  Perhaps the beautifully textured surfaces of these pieces will be enough of a consolation; they are quite beautifully textured.

Fun Name Badge

Linda Kemshall encouraged her viewers to make a name badge for themselves for Festival of Quilts in the UK. I think she said everyone with a handmade name badge would get a special something from her booth during the show. Well, I am taking a workshop this weekend at ProChem, teaching a workshop at Fiber College, and hosting the Northern New England SAQA parlor meeting a.k.a. The Maine Event so I felt that plenty of reason to stitch up a fun name badge. Here it is in all its glory.

My entries for the Brunswick 10X10

These are my entries for the Brunswick 10X10 show which raises money for art programs in the Brunswick school system.

                                                                      Sacred Circle

                                                                               Eric 4

                                                                  Green and Rust

Changed my mind

I decided to remove most of the purple roving from this piece and replaced it with stitches and beading. The frame is in the way of the photograph but it's a passable photo.

Oops. It's sideways.

Color not quite as good and below is a piece I did for an art show called BLUE in Blue Hill, Maine .

"Connections"

First sound of my new voice

At the Jane Dunnewold workshop, I found my voice. It wasn't just what we did in the workshop but the realization of what I truly loved. I actually have three loves: portraits, ravens and crows, and color and texture.
This is the first piece in my new voice, color and texture. First let me say that it has been raining or overcast for weeks and the colors in my photo are not true. The photo does give a pretty good idea of the design elements but not of the way the colors work off each other.

I dyed a LOT of burlap, scrim, wool yarn, thread and woolen batts. The colors are horrible in the photos so I'll wait until the sun comes out and retake them as well as my first piece. I will show this first photo taken with a flash and poor color correction.

This piece of woolen batt was dyed at Vicki Jenson's dyeing workshop at ProChemical and Dye last year. I was just "getting rid" of left over dye before cleaning up for the night. When I saw how it came out I wanted to frame the piece of wool like a piece of art. I loved the colors.
In this first piece, I used all hand dyed wool, burlap and threads as well as a shell (emerging from the burlap), beads, sari yarn, and metallic threads. I love it because it's my first piece. I learned a lot making it and the colors are so scrumptious that I want to eat it. Stay tuned for more along this theme. I am going to also incorporate dyed and batiked silks in my work.
Newer pictures with slightly better light: