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Category Archives: kaleyard
November Studio
It is the last day of November and the day of Saint Andrew, patron of Scotland ( Greece, too) and all Scots, even those like me from Orkney! Time to report on the month's art activities, though I will not … Continue reading
Posted in artist books, artist's studio, children's art, Chinese Thread Book, dye plants, eco prints on paper, kaleyard, Miao thread and needle case, Rust Printing
Tagged Chinese thread book, dyeing with black walnuts, dyeing with cotinus, dyeing with eucalyptus, eco prints on wool, kaleyard, Oshiwa blocks
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Indigo blues et amaranth reds in August
A busy month so far! Art, gardens, travels, guests… Brooklyn and Manhattan in late July, early August were HOT! Ottawa, too. But refuge was close: The Brooklyn Botanical Garden, and in particular, the native plants garden, were ripe with goldenrod … Continue reading
April Adieux
At the start of the month of April, the Kaleyard was not without some ragged post-winter charm: After the spring clean-up: Meanwhile, the indoor dye garden is growing. First. Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria). I layered the long stems to encourage … Continue reading
Back from Brooklyn
February in Ottawa is Winterlude, AKA The Deep Freeze at minus 35… The Kaleyard looks lovely, though, with dye plants snug under the snow billows: Can't help thinking about what will have survived its first year in The Kaleyard, and … Continue reading
Posted in artist books, Brooklyn, kaleyard, NYC, paste paper, The Highline, NYC
Tagged book arts, covers for chairs, kaleyard, paste papers
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Kaleyard Art for Story Chairs
I recently became owner of six small, pretty wood dining chairs with hand-made wool tapestry seat-covers in a charming rose-sprig pattern. They are perfect in size for our new and smaller dining room. But in style – unadventurous. Farewell, twee … Continue reading
Posted in kaleyard, painting, Paul Klee, recycled fabrics, Vassily Kandinsky
Tagged covers for chairs, painting canvas
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Snow Comes To The Kaleyard
Winter means art indoors and the studio is my refuge. For natural dyeing and eco printing, I use my stash of dried plants, dye powders and whatever fresh plant materials I can find in the fridge or a florist bouquet. … Continue reading
Autumn in the Kaleyard
Kale is another word for cabbage. I learned recently that Scottish “Kailyard” literature displeased the artspeakers of the late Victorian era who found it sentimental and cottagey, not nearly edgey enough, too sweat-blood-and-tears free, so to speak. James Barrie, author … Continue reading
Posted in book arts, dye garden, dye plants, dyeing with native plants, Eco Prints, kaleyard, native plant gardening, native plants, Natural Dyeing
Tagged dyeing with aronia melanocarpa, Dyeing with coreopsis, dyeing with cotinus, dyeing with dogwood, dyeing with purple sandcherry leaves, dyeing with red cabbage, dyeing with sumac, Eco Prints, indigo, iron as dye assistant, Kale, kaleyard
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