Week 3 lace and feathers

Week 3 lace and feathers
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

The week 3 work. I am still working with natural materials as resists and substrates for transfers. I remembered I had pressed some Queen Anne's Lace in the phone book at the end of the summer to make it thin enough for sun printing. It works well for transfers as well, showing the sweet branching nature of it very nicely.

I am still coming to grips with the delicacy of the resulting images, particularly on satin. I don't want to work into them because they feel perfect already - I can't add anything to them by stitching them, so I tried stitching around them to make their perfection pop out. The best example here is the golden/brown feather at the bottom. I rather like the way that came out, and I'm thinking I should pursue things with more elaborate edges.

I still have the TIF challenge to finish up over the next two weeks. Yikes!