In my previous blog on May 24, 2020, I neglected to show you the photograph that I used to inspire the drawing. Oh dear. :)
Well, I am not a sit-in-the-woods sketcher myself, mostly because I usually am wandering around in my yard or on a hike with others grabbing shots. It won’t surprise you to learn that i have thousands of pictures on my iPhone. When I bought a new phone, I picked it for its two lens system. I knew that I would always have my phone with me but rarely would think to bring my old digital camera. Wow, wasn’t that a savings, one new iPhone instead of iPhone + new digital camera! My old camera takes great pictures except when it misbehaves mechanically.
As the four of us were wandering the woods in Brampton, near Chesterfield, England, I looked up in the woods and this is what I saw.
That same trip, that same day in April, I also took this photograph.
This is the sister photograph to the one above, in Old Brampton.
This last image also inspired a silkscreen that I have used extensively in my art pieces. If you check out the images from the gallery “2017-2019 Hand Dyed Art” you will see! I show you some below for your immediate gratification (and mine).
A recent 2020 quilt containing my “Silkscreen Tree no. 3”
A recent 2020 Wall Hanging quilt.
And to be complete, I will show you the actual silkscreen.
First Brampton Silkscreen . Tree #3. Old Brampton.
Stay tuned for the next blog where I will go into what I have done so far using Silkscreen Tree No. 4 in terms of dyeing, overdyeing, and other successful and not-sucessful steps I have experimented with!