Last week I finally finished two of my initial 'trial' artworks. They've been a way to get back into the swing of Katazome again but I also wanted to try out a few new techniques, including coloured resist paste and using a paper cone (づつ) to apply resist paste. Of course, they are also depicting Australian birds, in keeping with my research here in Kyoto.
First up is a linen Noren curtain dyed using Katazome technique. It shows the Kanji for Australia, "Go" 豪 and Australian flora and fauna.
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| 「豪」'Australia'. Linen Noren. Katazome. 2011 |
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| Detail of Wattle. |
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| Close up of my Crimson Rosella |
Second is this piece depicting a male King Parrot and Blackwood Wattle. This piece incorporates both katazome (resist paste applied with a stencil) and tzutsugaki (resiste paste applied with paper cone). I'm really happy with how this combination turned out.
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| King Parrot & Blackwood Wattle. Katazome and Hand-drawn resist technique on cotton. 2011 |
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| You can see the white lines which is where resist paste was applied with the cone. It gives a very different, drawing-like feel compared to stencil resist. |
I have two more bird pieces *THIS* close to being finished. Once those are complete, I'd like to see what's been most sucessful in terms of technique and move on to making one or two much larger pieces.
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