Wyncia

Butterfly Greeting Cards: Multi-Media

Watercolor lessons and experiments produce plenty of colorful practice sheets. This season I have been creating butterflies for greeting cards. I paint a background onnto the cardstock. The butterflies and catipillars are cut from the practice watercolor sheets. The figures are mounted on vellum that is mounted on the card stock. The muted background set off the insects.

If you find this message, please know I am trying to fix the glitch...okay so maybe I should try harder. Ignoring a couple of screwy websites for almost two months is, well, negligent. But the business Bwyneth Fiber Arts has been successful this winter retail season. I would show you our new logo and best selling products, but the website is not working and I cannot get pictures on it. Well, enjoy your winter and I will be back on the air soon, I hope.

New email address. If you contact me it will go right to my gmail account! This is good because having two emails and a tablet for sometimes email was getting crazy. Now if I can just get the calendars to actually sync...

BTW I start a new watercolor class tomorrow. Molly Davis Fine Art Studio here in Boulder. I made a full year commitment. Am I crazy? All the parental voices in my head think so!

Who are the makers? From the DIY-ers to the fine artists, from the knitters to the robot-teers, contemporary creators of one of a kind, hands on goods in contemporary society! WE ARE THE MAKERS!

good thing class starts soon. I am ready for guidance!

Finished for now

Just here to say that I came to Kauai to visit with Maggie. Now that I am here, I have the gift of time and mental space. I am very grateful for the quiet. I finished some work on an water color I started in January. The image is wildly flawed, in part because I lost the eye and color I was using when I started' but fair enough done to head for Waimea for views ans walking. 

Nothing but fish...

where's the water???? See...I don't even think they are cute anymore. Time to return to June and make nomad pocket scarf wraps.

Images of Once and Always Perfect Spirits

This is a news interview with my lovely friends Teresa and Becky about Teresa's painting of the spirit of those who have died. Their story is so true and the presentation so beautiful. Please, don't be hesitant. Take a look. Link here.  To connect with bereavement artists, who work in several styles to make memorials, link here.

 

 

 

Bwyneth Pocket Scarves

"The indispensable summer accessory..." A scarf, shawl, pocketed thing from colorful up-cycled fabrics. The wearable accessory to have on hand (that means in the car, or back pack) to comfort you when the evening chills, the sun burns, the wind, rios, or the air conditioning at work is freezing.

Sold yet? See Dolly displaying the comforts of the Bwyneth Pocket Scarf.

     

     
That Dolly may be a dummy, but she sure knows how to accessorize. Wasn't it Jackie K (pre-O) who described eternal good taste in dress as, "basic black and Bwyneth Pocket Scarf."

Maker as Model with the muslim of India print, winter 2011.

Need one, for wind, or rain, or fire(as an all purpose accessory for your fire evac to go bag?). Ask me or the illusive Bwyneth at www.bwyneth.com

Smithsonian Wild

Oh, my. Learning to draw and paint cats. What a wonderful resource for the wild felines!

Smithsonian Wild.

Spring is in the Air: Bunnies by the Basket

These guys are multiplying like ... well, rabbits. Good to be using my doll making skills again!

Made in yummy angora/wool knits, they are soft as kittens.

Braggadocio, I can't help myself!

Hurray! Bwyneth Fiber Arts new product is Love Notes. these are palm sized hearts of felted wool sweaters, each with an embellished slot for love notes of little gifts. Thank you Beth for a lovable design! They made it on the website of Baby Doe's shop.  Take a look!

Tiger Emerging

Born in the Year of the Rabbit, and what emerges from my paper but the predator...

there is the forever tension: the yin and the yang, the dinner and the diner.

How shall I, Rabbit, love thee, my ferosious devouring one? I am in awe of your grandeur, beauty, and huge compelling jaws.Prehaps the paint will carry my praise.

 

Minus 11 degree windchill this morning! Baby, it's cold outside!

Living on What You Love To Do

This is so encouraging! "I'm Making A Living From My Hobbies" by Frank Hyman in the Sunday NYTimes. Frank lists arts, writing,gardening, and politics as the avocations that have sustained him for the last 18 years. And he says you have to try lots of different things to know what you like! Yes! And have an adequate budget for classes and books every year! Yes! And travel widely! Great! And have a wide tolerance for mistakes. I can do that.

So all I have to do is figure out the "making a living" bit! These days I am continuing with assorted fiber arts: knit, sew, layer fiber and paper; playing at encaustic wax multi-media pieces; learning to draw; starting a business with a friend using lots of recycled fibers to make wraps, mittens, oven mitts and pillows (Bwyneth Fiber Arts); and co-owning a co-operative shop and healing arts shop (Uniquely Natural in Lafayette, Colorado.) Wow!

So I am making a great life of avocations I love, even if it doesn't quite add up to a living!

  

   Bwyneth Mittens                                            Wyncia's Finger Free Gloves

Friday night out!!!

Well, I am continuing to work on UN, at UN, and for UN...including a new newsletter which you can see here. 

Top sellers of mine this season has been knitted fingerfree gloves. I  leave the palm completely open, so I can pull my thumb out and wash my hands!

My beloved Art Bags, made with layered fabric and papers, have not sold as quickly as I hoped. I have priced these higher than my average about $35 - 40 given that the fabric is created by hand.

 

 Each of these bags has a story poem with it. The one on the right is "Colors of the lake at dusk unlock the secret of sacred being." The blue pinks of the fabric are the shades reflected in a lake as the sun sets. On the front hangs a key and a scarab, sacred being. Too much for a simple bag?

New news from Uniquely Natural

Why I never post anymore...too busy over at UN (click the UN and see!!!)

Great show coming Sat. Nov. 20, 10-4 and Sun. Nov. 21, 10-3 at 5920 S Vale Road, Boulder. I have felted wool mittens in great colors, bright scarves and bags, of course. All local artists with great products. Spurge with your neighbors! Holidays are coming and things are getting better!

Bwyneth Fiber Arts makes wool mittens from re-purposed, felted sweaters! They are available for sale at Uniquely Natural in Lafayette and Willow in Littleton! Get a pair before Jack Frost gets your fingers.