New digital collage. As you’ve probably surmised, it’s an orchid with green toy race cars and a button thrown in for good measure. I’m enjoying the formal arrangement in this work and the cosmic rabbit gocco print (in my previous blog post). For a simple arrangement, I spent a surprising amount of time working on this. I had the orchid and green car images included from almost the beginning with various other elements– spoons, spatulas, other buttons, a rooster… After deciding that the orchid and green cars were strong candidates for the work, I realized my existing photos weren’t cutting it. So I took new photographs of them and I’m glad I did. I just got the orchid this past weekend and even with my black thumb, I haven’t killed it yet. Lucky. (I say that in my best Napoleon Dynamite voice. Sweet.) The toy car belonged to me as a child. I have several very cool metal toy cars. This one is a Dinky. Orchid with Green Racer No. 6 is available as an 11″ x 17″ print in my etsy shop.

He had to be green. The spoons had be there. The dyer dial could not be replaced. Some things just must be…

birds & shibori #8Originally uploaded by triciamckellar

New digital collage! The Birds & Shibori series includes digitally altered photos of my hand-dyed shibori fabrics and photos of birds around my home in North Carolina.

This is the gocco printer. I’ve just flashed a screen.

Here’s my first print with the screen!

What fun! :)

This is my newest toy, err, totally necessary equipment. It’s a print gocco! It’s a system for making screen prints– it uses bulbs to flash screens, then ink is applied to the screen and mashed through it to paper or fabric. Here’s a movie of a print gocco in action.

So now I’ve got to go try it out! :)

love the clouds…

After a long summer of hot, sunny days, a cool, misty, overcast morning was a welcome relief. It was a perfect morning to get some photos of the birds that frequent the telephone line over the cow pasture along my way to work. I love these kinds of bird images; I’ve used them in several of my digital collages.

I stopped at the pasture on my way to work this morning. A cow walked toward me, over to the fence next to my parked car as I was getting my camera from the trunk and started doing some crazy number with her tongue.

So I got a couple of shots of her and then took several photos of birds and telephone lines. As I was heading back to my car, she looked up at me again.

Was she glad to see me leave?