Category Archives: creativity

Squid Girl

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Lisa Yarost

This is another project I worked on over the weekend. It isn’t quite finished yet. I need to either ink it or pencil it because it’s too small for me to paint the details. Maybe somebody else could, but my … Continue reading →

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My beloved monster

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Lisa Yarost

    So, maybe I haven’t dyed my own fabric to make a dress from scratch this weekend, but I have been busy. I reworked my reworking of my drawing and created this painting. I should reassure the world that … Continue reading →

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Work in Progress: Hanging Out

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Rebecca Fox

This is the stretch silk charmeuse fabric I dyed last night hanging out in a fare facsimile of the finished convertible dress.  Fabric that is cut on the bias–as the skirt of this dress is–must hang for a while to … Continue reading →

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Dyeing in Process

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Rebecca Fox

Arranging fabric on pulley system in preparation for dyeing.  Yup, pulley works.  Yay! Fabric being dyed main color: teal blue that doesn’t really look teal. Under-dyeing with ombre technique using teal blue. About an hour later: Over-dyeing in bronze using … Continue reading →

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Swatch Me Ombre

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Rebecca Fox

Ah, more dyeing adventures and another work in progress….Just to complicate the dyeing process of a silk dress-in-the-works, I’ve decided that I would give ombre dyeing a shot.  It didn’t go too badly with these small strips of silk.

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Monster 2

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Lisa Yarost

So, here is another monster drawing. I like that the child’s relationship to the monster is ambiguous. Is the monster a protector, a pet, or both? Five points to the person who guesses what real live animal inspired this particular … Continue reading →

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Rethinking a concept

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Lisa Yarost

Sometimes things just don’t seem to come together the way I want. Take the painting I was working on yesterday, for instance. I liked the idea, but the execution was escaping me. Today, however, it seems to be coming together, … Continue reading →

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Work in progress

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Lisa Yarost

Here’s one of my works in progress. Farther along today.

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Works in progress

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lisa Yarost

Here are three of the many pieces I’m working on for ArtScene, which is a city-wide Art show hosted twice a year in Rockford. Spring ArtScene is April 15 & 16.

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Swatching!

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Rebecca Fox

I recently purchased twelve yards of stretch silk charmeuse with the intention of making an infinity dress.  Usually I bravely dive into the dyeing process in such a way that no sane person would: throwing the careful measured process of … Continue reading →

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