Heat Index - New Work in Progress

 In the latter part of the summer I experimented with combining the wet cyanotype process with SolarFast printing. The experiments were both fun and successful. I documented the process in making the maple leaf print here, and the tall blue lettuce print here.

 I picked two other prints from those two sessions to use in a new work, Heat Index.

 After picking the prints, my next step was to pull fabrics to use in patchwork to frame them. I used silks in three colorways. Included in the blue set were cyanotypes that were extras when working on the Watt and Shand series and the Silk Mill quilts. (See both here.) They were made from my digital photos that I printed on transparencies for exposure.

 The green set and especially the red set include silks that are "shot" (the warp and the weft threads are different colors) and ones with interesting textures. It brings me great joy to work with these fabulous textiles.

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