While looking online, for the picture of the sweater pattern I’m knitting from an older issue of Creative Knitting magazine, I ran into another knitster’s blog, Creative Swoon. I love that name! Scrolling the older posts, a picture of typeface caught my eye….. and the video recommended, caught my heart. The [...]

This is a new hangtag I’ve been working on…. based on a hand litho from 20 years ago.

© 2006 J.O’Hara-Barrett

I’ve been working on printing a colonial themed yardage. This piece is about 8 yards in length. The base fabric is what Walmart calls weaver’s cloth. It’s 100% cotton kind of a homespun white fabric (I think traditional weaver’s cloth is 50/50 for needlepunch work).
I cut stencils of colonial people based on [...]

10 Days after the last post on meadow grasses, I was finally ready for more printing. 16 days now, it’s finally been rinsed and hung to dry.
This was the original artwork for some loosely based designs:

Challenge 1: Could only get Indigo Dye - one color (note to self: used 3 tbsp pigment to [...]

I’ve been searching out some printmaking sites lately and ran into a baren forum tonight.

The postings are thin but the links to other sites are a sweet journey.

The past few weeks, I’ve been playing with fabric dyeing and painting for the first time. So for my printing journaling, this is my first project entry, based on Meadow Grasses.
In her book, “Hand Block Printing and Resist Dyeing”, Susan Bosence mentions for inspiration, begin with subject matter that describes [...]

About 20 years ago, I was a student at the Atlanta College of Art and monitor of the Printmaking department. We did not have majors at that time, but my interests were drawng and printmaking. I had the great fortune of being taught by Professor Norman Wagner, a master printer, and master printer Wayne [...]