daily sketch

July 1, 2014

transforming a painting into a tie-dye print

June 30, 2014

daily sketch. original acrylic painting on paper was adjusted with Photoshop filters and indexed to 4 colors. This was then further simplified and indexed down to two colors.

acrylic painting becomes a checkered plaid

June 29, 2014

daily sketch. original acrylic painting on paper. final image altered with Photoshop filters and then recolored.

mixed media into plaid

June 28, 2014

daily sketch. original painting, acrylic on canvas textured paper. Glitchy photoshop manipulation.

watercolor into indexed photoshop file

June 27, 2014

daily sketch. original watercolor. manipulated in photoshop.

daily sketch

June 26, 2014

daily sketch. Photos of leaves manipulated in Photoshop. Colors need work.

mixed media painting into repeating pattern

June 25, 2014

daily sketch. acrylic on paper. leading to photoshop manipulation and indexing. leading to photoshop filtering, copying, rotating and pasting.

painting filtered into brush marks

June 24, 2014

daily sketch. original painting acrylic on canvas. leaves added in photoshop. abstraction done in photoshop.

Every morning as I sit down at my work table I pull up an @oblique_se. Today's seems to particularly align with my mood.

Mending while camping, using hand-dyed indigo thread available on my website

New stock added. Oversold natural indigo dyed mending thread is back in stock. This cotton covered poly thread is stronger than pure cotton and takes the indigo dye beautifully, with little specks of undyed poly peeking through for an almost sparkly effect. It's strong enough for mending jeans but thin enough for most stitching and embroidery projects. The natural indigo will fade harmoniously as you launder your jeans. If thread sales are an indication, the dog days of the pandemic are inspiring people to dig into those baskets of damaged clothes with lots of first timers giving mending a try. It's put up in short skeins so its an affordable starter thread. The indigo dye started as seeds in my dye garden. I use this thread in Arashi Shibori processes and carefully unwind it as I pull off the dyed textiles. Nothing goes to waste! I can put up longer skeins if needed, pm me

Finished a pile. Now to assemble

Individual photos of the January 2021 Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches. I've written about the processes on my blog. Link to my website is on my bio #tastembroidery #takeastitchtuesday #pintangletast #handembroidered #stitchersofinstagram #linkedchainstitch #flystitch #italianborderstitch #blanketstitch #reverseblanketbarstitch #stemstitch #portuguesestemstitch

New thread colorway added to my shop. #handdyedthreads #bluethread #mendingthread #handstitching #varigatedthread #dyedthreads #dyedbyhand #denimfriendly #mendingjeans

More thread into a vat. Blending colors for stitching on collage. #handdyedthreads #stitchedcollage #dyersofinstagram #dyedthreads #dyeart #dyework #blue #multicoloredthread

There was a run on indigo dyed thread on my website over the holidays and I'm almost out. Today I'm trying out fiber reactive dyes on a few skeins to see how that works. Takes a lot less water than indigo processing which is an ongoing concern in SoCal.