Jane Green's Art

COLOR COLOR EVERYWHERE!!!

  I couldn't resist taking this picture. I spent yesterday cooking about 12 pans of these wool casseroles. When they fell out of the dryer I thought they were gorgeous.   Of all the wool I create, these are the most time consuming. If you rush  and try to speed up the process the colors bleed together and make mud.  They are my big sellers. In the near future I will teach my method of keeping the colors clean.

Labor Day Fun

I never look at dying wool as  boring. It always amazes me that new things happen every time I put wool in the pot. Over the weekend some of my students joined me in my favorite activity and we created some great wools for the pictorial class coming up at Anne Arundel Community College. We over-dyed recycled wools and came up with a beautiful selection of skies, foliage, and water!

Try scrunching multiple colors of wool in the pan and spot them with the same formula. We also added a piece of white. The bright emerald green in the upper right turned out sensational.  Be creative and remember-- you can't make any mistakes because you'll find a place for that piece of wool someday!!!!

Casserole Dying

Casserole Dying takes a little practice. Cut the wool to fit your pan-- Mine is 10"x 15". Make sure it is thoroughly wet before you  begin. In this picture I have layered the second piece of wool over the first and the dye is seeping to the top.     On the left side you Can see I have placed two of the three dyes on the wool. I spoon them in the center to avoid the dye running down the edges. Think of this as making a pan of lasagna... You don't want too much tomato sauce or it will be runny. In this situation, the colors can bleed together and turn your pretty colors into mud if you are not careful.

The center image shows me brushing the colors together with a soft watercolor brush. Using the brush smooths out the colors and results in a  piece of fabric that actually looks painted.

Now you can see the final color goes on and I'll brush it up towards the greens.  This is tricky-- green and red are opposites on the color clock mixed together make gray.

                                                         

My favorite place- The basement!!!!

I tell my friend's.... just lock me in the basement with enough paint, wool, and dyes for a week and I'll be a happy woman! 

This is a promotional picture for Art Calendar, a business magazine for artists. The December issue will have an article about my efforts in  launching a wool business.

Finished the color family casseroles

I finally finished all the dye formulas for the 12 casseroles associated with my color families. This is #11 and was the most difficult. Orange and purple can turn each other into a muddy gray so painting this piece was time consuming. I learned a new trick that I'll be sharing in my dye classes.

Where I was July 4th

  I had fun in the dye pot all weekend. The wool on the left is called  "Wild Flowers." It is one of my old formulas which I lost. I have been trying to re-create it for the past month and finally did it. It is the perfect wool in any pictorial rug.