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Time to catch up on sharing my doings in the studio since last May! At year’s end, I usually try to take note of how the year has gone, what has gone on as well as off in the studio. Not gonna ...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/december-notes/

More than a year of living “covidly”. It helps me to look forward with hope if I look back to show myself how I have actually made it to Spring 2021 at last. I took a lot of photos. I will ju...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/looking-forward/

Artist Antony Gormley recently wrote about “affordances”- the things and situations that your current reality permits. He included in his idea of “affordances” the ideas as well as materi...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/affordances/

Time to catch up after almost a full year away, dear readers. So instead of lots of words, I have lots of photos- all about making dye-based inks from plants that I grow in my garden or forage he...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2020/01/27/now-where-was-i/

So here as promised is my update on inkmaking from my dye stash this winter – and what a winter: over 100cm of snow so far. Nothing for it but to huddle over the dye pot and carry on making ink...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/more-ink/

I saw the above advice on Instagram the other day and admired its pragmatism. It also made me chuckle. Can any of my Dear Readers relate to the “exhortation” below that I shared with an artis...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/carry-on-carrying-on/

Happy new year to all my readers and welcome to new readers since last post. Do you have plans for artmaking this year? My art plans for 2019 are substantially the same as in 2018: Get some art w...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/chameleon-inks/

Last time I reported on making walnut colour extract on its way to becoming ink. The walnuts have been fermenting since late summer 2015. They started out in big jars (128 fl oz), a couple of doz...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/more-walnuts/

It’s finally time to get to that benignly-neglected walnut stash that has been fermenting in a dark cupboard in my studio since the summer of 2015. At Canadian Thanksgiving in early October, I...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/walnuts-continued/

No more buckthorn berries left now in mid November for making the historic paint colour, Sap Green.  I collected about four cups/ one litre of them a month ago and have been posting the results ...

https://wendyfe.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/bye-bye-buckthorn-berries/