Prep for Jenni's Wedding

Finally all the pieces are dyed and set. Next comes the ironing, printing and sewing. Here they are set to dry.

dyed silk in a bucket

Printed Silk- Double Happiness Chinese Character, and The Assyrian Tree of Life

My Press!

this is the Vandercook proofing press i recently purchased. this is stage one- in pieces waiting to be cleaned. But this is its new home at Open Lot Studios

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Printer fingers and gloves...!

Here are the hands of fellow printmakers Tom and Katy, and my lovely gloves after handling many, many, many individually inked pieces.

these are a few of those pieces

Open Studios was a lot of fun!

Hilary from Best Mile Blog came a took a few good shots, and here's a few of my own just of the space.

Thank you to everyone who stopped in!

Hilary's photograph of Dennis and I at the silkscreen station, prep work

The Wheel backed by three hanging banners, with a few etchings at the border

hanging Josh Crow's paintings

Open Studios 2009!!!

http://openstudiosonline.org/

Saturday July 25

Josh Crow, Dennis Doty, Kyra Termini

2621-2623 Cherokee Street

St. Louis MO

first successful mold

a little rough at the edges, but it is still my first dragonfly.

Hine's Emerald Dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)

these are the molds are making for my Hine's Emerald Dragonfly
instillation. the dragonflies will be made with recycled paper pressed into the molds
and colored with natural dyes and soy paint. these guys are currently listed as endangered
by the Chicago Field Office, thought extinct, small isolated populations have recently been discovered in new regions of the US.