Velvet

Details of Velvets painted in May 2010.

Spring and Summer Scarves

Painted in March and April 2010, most of these can be found at The Dancing Sheep Gallery on Larchmere in Cleveland, Ohio.

Spring scarves, details.

Lily

February 16, 2010. A new wall piece in it’s infancy. This is a detail- and it will alter a lot as I have discharge plans for it.

Spring Scarves

I’m experimenting with abstract layering of color and some floral designs. I did a few complex butterflies Friday and they did not touch me….time to let lose a bit.

8×54 Scarves

Completed May 2, 2009. I used Jacquard Dye for these. Great color and less steaming time than Dupont.

Paula

Steamed May 2, 2009. A piece I started a week ago. It has been discharged and overdyed a few times. I will look at it for a bit to see where to go with it. I think a better description for these works is silk drawings rather than paintings.

Model

Painted May 2, 2009. From a drawing I did last Monday. First stage- hard to see right now which direction I want to take with this.

Paula

Painted April 23, 2009. I started this today with the intention that it is the base for further work with discharge and dye. I really do love the look of a distressed surface. In silk that translates as a layered richness that has a randomness to it. I could possibly be happy with just that- without the need to include recognizable images. I am still excited with the painting and obliterating and painting again of faces. This one was going to have flowers around the head when I realized I could just revel in color and surface. As it progresses I’ll post pictures of it.

Your Madonna

36×36 charmuse. Perhaps she is done, would anyone wear her?

Persian Carpet Scarf

!5×60 crepe de chine.

Spring Green Floral

15X60 Charmuse. I’m very pleased with the variations of green on this scarf.

Bunnies in My Garden

This is gigantic, 36×72. It got sent off to the Toledo Museum store this morning. Bye-bye my sweet bunnies.

Vera

Painted last year. I am looking at it again to find the thread of how I want to translate all the portrait work into the silk paintings.

Other

Detail of a piece that pulls together both the figurative exploration and my interest in layering drawing and color.

Florists floor

Steamed set on February 18,2009.
Worked on this for a couple of weeks. I may frame it using fabric paint to print a faux frame. At the moment I am not sure about it and will leave it for a day or two to see what a fresh eye dictates.

Florist Floor

I started this piece last week. This is the first “layer”. I will probably do many pale taupe/pink flowers in between the flowers that are here. It will have a layered look- as if the flowers fell and scattered on a floor. I’ll photograph it as I go along.

Purple Tapestry detail

Purple Tapestry

Painted the first 10 days of January 2009. It is big- approx 8×4. Many layers of color painted to get all the gradations of purple to violet to deep plum. I am pleased with it.

Cathy

Again, this might still have more work before it is done. It is resting like a lovely yeast bread.

Sarah

I’m still thinking about this one- perhaps another discharge.

Uma

Very quickly done, only one discharge. It simply said- I’m finished, no more.

Roberta

Done around the same time as “Cory”. This piece had more resistant dye so the discharge was trickier but the result is very rich. I like it.

Cory

Portrait that involved several layers of dye then discharge (process that removes some color). There is a randomness to the process that appeals to me.

Tiny Calas

Painted in my studio after seeing beautiful floral paintings at the Lichenstein Museum in Vienna.

Grey and Nutmeg Flowers

Painted on November 22, 2008. The design inspired by details on a Persian carpet.

Aqua Lily

Autumn Bunny

Lady Jane

Holiday Show 2008

Two scarves I photographed on December 1st. Trying to figure out the best way to show them….

I spent the day learning how to create a blog and cooking and laughing and enjoying my amazing family and friends.

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Tiny Portrait 1

Two Faces of Myself

detail

Two Faces of Myself

Finished on November 28, 2008 after 2 months of changes.

Silk Scarves by Susan Skove

this piece was painted in May as the rain fell and the flowers grew.