i am not feeling that the colors have been reproduced exactly as they really are but its close enough for today. i was underwhelmed at first... but now i have ironed them and looked at them again and i can see that they will work together. it will be much lighter in value than i regularly work. i don't think of myself as only liking bright colors but these could have a bit more depth for my taste. if i have a grey to put with them i think that would make them work better. not a dark one... just a little darker in value than these, enough to set them off. my favorite piece of all is the little gold one. and then the center of the green. and the pink petals from the peony. when i made the bundles i think i used too long of a piece of fabric. i like the resist of the string but the dye did not penetrate deeply inside. so next time maybe a few twigs for the center and shorter strips. and that last photo is much paler than the others... it wasn't like that in i-photo. i have to work some of the technicalities out in transferring photos. i'll be easy on myself here because this is the first try...
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this is just an experimental comment to see if it goes............then, if success, i will
post a real one...
trying again....
nance...finally, i am here to say something
about the cloth here...all is beautiful, but
i particularly love the 4th and 5th...and
actually, the more often i look, the 4th in
particular???? if it were mine, i would be
able to find peonies in it...and peonie buds
and emphasize them with stitch. then i would
kantha the background in a horizontal flow.
i really really like them all, and your
efforts certainly are more beautiful than mine
....
A lot of work, getting the materials, the jars, wrapping, bundling but Nance, these results are so worth the wait; lovely, the colors that I so favor, subtle designs from the plant materials. These colors softly bring in the quietness of nature, those shades that do not call out loudly but stay with you as a memory of twilight.
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