Category: Design

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Fun a Day Dundee 2019

Appliqué made from recycled fabric

I’m participating in FUN A DAY DUNDEE 2019, an event where you create one piece of artwork per day and share the result online with friends and followers.
My chosen field is experimenting with mixed media techniques on fabric. It isn’t always possible to actually finish one piece in a day so I take pictures of what I’ve been able to accomplish and show the progress towards the finished work.
You can take a look at the fabric pieces I make on my Facebook account @CorneliaWeinmannArtist or on Instagram @Cornelia8878.

fabric collage Rooster

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Christmas cards

I have just posted my handprinted Christmas cards to a few customers. The 2018 motifs are ‘Christmas Pudding’ and ‘Rocking Horse’.
I still have a number of ‘Christmas Pudding’ cards available: 5″ x 7″, printed on 350gsm paper, blank inside.
£4, envelope included, s/h extra. Please send me a message if you would like to buy a few.

christmas card Christmas Pudding

Christmas Pudding. 2018
linoprint, 17 x 12 cm
Caligo safe wash relief ink on 350gsm paper

 

christmas card rocking horse

Rocking Horse. 2018
linoprint, 12 x 17 cm
Caligo safe wash relief ink on 350gsm paper

 

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Upcycled furniture: hall table

More upcycled furniture: I have transformed a dark brown hall table into a contemporary focal piece that looks good in any room, not just the hall. This time I didn’t use Frenchic chalk paint, I used Annie Sloan paint instead, the hue is called Louis Blue. And I have lightly distressed the table. Stylised flower heads decorate the table top,  I have used hand cut stencils to create them. The table is on display in my studio.

Hall table Flowers
Acrylic primer, chalk paint, artists acrylics, acrylic varnish on wood. 2018.
76 x 38 x 73cm

 

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Fabric design: T-shirts

Looking back: apart from painting vintage furniture, the mainstay of my Canadian art studio in the 1990s was fabric design. I dyed T-shirts and cotton tops by hand and decorated the garments using stamps, stencils, foam rollers, metal tipped applicator bottles… It was fortunate that my supplier had her shop in the same village where I used to live, in Deep Cove, North Vancouver, British Columbia. If I ever ran out of something, I just had to walk up the road to Sheryl at Opulence Silks and Dyes Ltd. Gallery and stock up.

T-shirt Band.
Stamps carved in Speedball Speedy-Cut,
cotton fabric, Procion fabric dye, Setacolor fabric paint. 1997.

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Upcycled furniture: table

During my time in Canada I did this custom order for a client in Vancouver BC. The lady in question had painted a small table in this beautiful rust colour and then felt unsure about how to accentuate the table top. The piece reminded me of a gambling table, so I decided on a decor of squares like a board game.

upcycled Checkerboard Table

Wood, oil paint, artists oil paint. 2001.