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Today I did some eucalyptus dye tests. It smells so amazing when its boiling!! The color came out light brown, nothing very dramatic. So I added a few spoonfulls of alum to the dye bath and I also added a “tea bag” of honey locust seed pods to punch up the color. The 3 tests I made were the eucalyptus dye with added iron, added soda ash, and added lemon juice to see how changing the Ph shifts the color.

I worked with wild madder root for the first time today, which gave me such a pretty rosy pink. The green-yellow is from wisteria in my garden.

I decided to start a series of paper collages in tandem with my fabric collages. These are smaller in size, and they are a creative interpretation of clouds. I’m still in awe of the skies here in Tucson Arizona, and bringing those colors into my work. The collage shapes are watercolor on white paper, and they are arranged on paste paper that I made earlier this year.

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