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God's Colors

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This tie dye bandana features and magenta “X” that crosses through the center of the bandana, reaching all corners of the square cloth. Surrounding the X is teal with scattered green spots.

Godsfall

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This bandana is mostly green. The folding and tying has created spots where the white cloth remained uncolored, peeking through the green. Patches of purple are scattered randomly across the square, with subtle lines and circles created by the ties.

A God's Heart

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This bandanna features a large diamond shape in the middle. The shape is teal. It then goes to pink, then orange, then into green, and lastly, yellow and purple. The colors fade and mix into one another in the different layers and patterns.

God's Universe

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This tie dye bandana features a symmetrical design that is centered around a brown, vertical double side arrow. On the left and right sides of the arrow are mirrors of the same pattern: a half circle in pink that transitions to orange. At the top of the circle is a line of green dye. Tying and folding has created a barrier for the dye, resulting in a unique pattern of white shapes throughout. 

Japanese Flower

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidered on denim

This piece is a denim rectangle with a flower stitched into the denim using white yarn. The flower has six pointed petals, with a vertical stitched through the center each one. The center of the flower is a solid white circle. There is also a stitched white boarder around the outer edges of the denim. 

Resurrection of Christ

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint

This painting features a golden cross in the middle of the canvas. The top section of this canvas has a blue background representing the sky. On the upper left side of the cross is a yellow semi-circle representing the sun. The lower half of the painting features a yellow background with black lines creating rays shining from behind the cross. At the bottom of the canvas is a green triangle representing grass in front of the cross. 

Cross of Jesus

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: Paper mache and acrylic paint on found objects

This structure represents a cross. At the bottom is a half sphere covered with green tissue paper to make it look like grass. Atop the 'grass' is a cross structure. The cross is decorated with a white piece of tissue paper that is hanging over either arm of the cross. Gray barbed wire is wrapped around the top of the cross.

Blue Fire

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This piece is painted dark blue with details in yellow and light blue. It is an abstract sculpture featuring a jug-shaped middle section, with a tube extending horizontally to the left and a tube extending horizontally to the right. At the upper center of the jug are two dot eyes and a small smile in blue.

Happy

Workshop: Stained glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This canvas features a black grid, sectioning the painting into 20 imperfect squares. The grid lines are different thicknesses, giving the piece a stained glass effect. Each square is painted in a different color (purple, light blue, light green, pink or orange) with thick, visible brush strokes.

Here Comes the Sun

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This tie dye bandana features bright yellow, orange, green and blue coloring. Through the middle, extending from bottom to top, the blue bleeds into green in a large triangular shape. Along the sides, moving top to bottom, the yellow bleeds into orange. The cloth has been tied to create interesting bleeding patterns that also resisted the dye, leaving erratic spots of white throughout the colors.

Pink Polka Dot

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

At the center of this square bandana is a distinct heart shape that has been colored with green, pink and purple. The dyes bleed and mix together. Radiating outward, and getting bigger as it moves out, are outlines of alternating colors – purple, then green, then pink. Orange and white spots peek through the colors throughout.

Purple Haze

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This piece has been folded, crumpled and tied to create rough vertical lines of pink, blue, green and purple from left to right. In each line, the dye seeps and bleeds with the folds of the cloth to create a randomized pattern of splotches, offering different shapes and sizes.

Square

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidered on denim

This rectangle of denim features yarn embroidery of dashed lines that create consecutive nested rectangles. They start small at the center and get bigger toward the edges. The yarn is a gradient of colors that goes from dark green to light purple to white.

Super Nova

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This tie dye piece features a distinct pattern of nested, consecutive circles. They start small, with a solid pink circle, at the middle, and get bigger toward the edges. The use of dye together with the folding and tying process has ensured that each circle is a different color, with patterns of blue, pink, green, orange and purple. A fair amount of the white cloth has remained undyed, creating a blank background that emphasizes the colors in the circles.

Dalmatian Minnie

Workshop: Paper Mache
Medium: paper mache using newspaper and found objects

This piece resembles a dog, with a rectangular body and standing on four legs. It is painted black and is covered in white dots. It has blue eyes and a yellow color with a red heart at the center of its neck.

Floral Colors

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

Two consecutive, nesting pink circles sit at the center of this square bandana. They give way to an intensely bright yellow background, with the colors seeping and bleeding together. At the center of the pink circles is a burst of eight lines radiating out of the center and stretching to all edges of the square. These lines are a mix of purple and blue. At each corner, purple and pink dyes mix together and blend into deep blue toward the corner.

Glory Hallelujah

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This tie dye bandana was folded, tied and dyed to create an interesting pattern of lines that move diagonally across the upper right corner and bottom left corner. Towards the middle, a pattern of intense pink dye has created lines with ends that curl into the center of the bandana. The pink has seeped into the blue background, creating stipes of purple that follow the same pattern.

GODS RADIANT LIGHT

Workshop: Stained Glass on Canvas
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas

This painting features a cross. The vertical section of the cross is pink. The horizontal section of the cross is black. Where they meet at the center, there is a bright yellow square. All shapes are outlined in black lines, creating a stained glass effect. The background of the upper portion of the cross is painted blue, with thick, swirling brush strokes. Directly below the arms of the cross is painted orange, with dark lines radiating out to the edges of the canvas like rays of light. Toward the bottom of the cross, the background is painted dark green, with thick paint and visible, swirling brush strokes.

God's Rainbow

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dyes on cotton

This tie dye piece features a distinct diamond pattern, with nested consecutive diamonds that start smaller in the center and get bigger. Each diamond is a different color, starting with bright yellow at the center, which bleeds into a blue diamond. This has creating lines and spots of green. The next diamond is pink, which has mixed with a darker blue and purple, creating interesting splotches and shapes along the line of the pink diamond. This gives way to another blue diamond that seeps into a yellow diamond. Each corner of the square is pink.

Two Jellyfish

Workshop: Tie Dye (bandanas)
Medium: dye on cotton

The upper left corner of this piece is blue. The rest of the piece is red. It has been tied, folded and crumpled during the dying process, which created interesting patterns of light and dark within each color. There are also areas in the red where the dye did not saturate the cloth, allowing white lines and shapes to peek through the red.