artAbility artists F-K

Oh, Christmas Tree

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

This is a tall, thin sculpture. It has been painted light green, with spots of blue and red all over the piece, representing ornaments. In some places the spots overlap. In others they don't. There is also a thin, red line that spirals around the piece from top to bottom, representing a garland

Rainbow

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

This canvas features a deep red background, painted with bloched paint to create different patterns of strokes in the paint. Toward the middle, a bright, pink triangle runs across the piece horizontally. The triangle features, thick black lines that radiate out from the pointed tip to the wide edge of the triangle, like rays of light.

Rainbow

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

This rectangle of denim features twelve straight, dashed lines of red yarn embroidery Each line is evenly spaced a part, with equally spaced dashes. The stitching takes up just over half of the rectangle.

Fireball

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

This piece is colored with a mix of bright yellow and pink, with subtle spots of green throughout. It has been tied and dyed in a way to create different shapes and patterns that bleed and seep together, with spots of the white background peeking through.

Firesunshine

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

This canvas features a deep red background, painted with bloched paint to create different patterns of strokes in the paint. Toward the middle, a bright, pink triangle runs across the piece horizontally. The triangle features, thick black lines that radiate out from the pointed tip to the wide edge of the triangle, like rays of light.

Japanese Batman Hati

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

This rectangle of denim features 12 vertical lines of yarn embroidery. Each line is evenly spaced apart. From right to left, the first two lines are grey, vertical dashed lines. The third line is white, horizontal dashes. The fourth line is made of stacked cross stitches that look like little Xs. This is followed by two more lines of grey, vertical dashed lines. Then another line of horizontal dashes. The eighth and nineth lines are vertical dashed stitches in red yarn. Then a line of horizontal dashes. This is followed by a line of grey, vertical lines, and a line of grey horizontal dashes.

Ravenclaw

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

This tie dye piece has been dyed mostly blue. Where the cloth was folded or tied, it has created an interesting pattern of white or light spots and lines. Near each corner, purple dye mixes and bleeds with the blue in splotches and spots.

Fire Blaze

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

This tie dye piece features a distinct pattern of nested, consecutive circles that start small at the center and get bigger as they move out to the edges. Each circle is a different color, starting with pink at the center, then yellow, then blue, then yellow, and finally, pink. The dyes seep and blend together, creating a pattern that looks similar to rays of light or a burst of light radiating out to the edges.

Seablaze

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

This tie dye piece features a random mix of shapes and patterns created by folding, tying and/or crumpling the cloth while dying it. It is mostly blue, with large spots of green bleeding through as well as some yellow.

The Gryffindor Lance

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

This tall, thin sculpture is designed to look like a Medieval knight's lance. The bottom half, or the 'handle', is painted a deep red. The top, or 'point', is painted yellow with a thick, red line that spirals down the point into the handle.

A Life with Many Directions

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

A rectangle of denim, with yarn stitched through it in all different directions. Each string of yarn is a different color: white, dark purple, light purple and red. Some of the stitches create dashed lines, while others crisscross. Some are lose and some are pulled tight, bunching the fabric.

Bete De Fue (Fuego Beast)

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

This sculpture represents an abstract animal – possibly a snake standing up on its tail. The head is painted blue, with two black eyes, red lips and a red string hanging from its mouth as a tongue. Its body is bright yellow, with white dots that look like spots, quills or hair. The yellow gives way to bright pink, with a red arm coming out on either side of the body at the bottom. This could be part of the animal or a perch that it is sitting on. Green string is wrapped around the red arms/perch.

Coucher De Soleil A Pois

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

This tie dye bandana features a random pattern of purple, blue, green, yellow, dark pink and light pink dots over the white background. The dots are spattered in a loose pattern of diagonal lines. Some dots bleed together while others are separated by the white background.

Resume Due La Couche Verte

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

This bandana features a clear pattern of consecutive, nesting circles in blue, green and purple. They start small at the center and get bigger toward the edges. Blue and purple lines extend out from the center to each edge of the square, creating a burst effect. Quite a bit of the white background is visible through the pattern.

Kaleidoscope de Pussance Brillante

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

This tie dye piece has been tied, crumpled and folded in a way that created a random pattern of different colors bleeding and seeping together in different shapes. It is a kaleidoscope of color, including blue, green, yellow, orange, pink and dark pink.

Iutricate Hidden Passgage Passage Cache Complete

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

Black lines of different thicknesses stripe across this piece in different directions. This has created a stained glass effect and different geometric shapes. Each shape is painted with a different color, including green, orange, pink, blue, yellow, white and red. Some of the shapes feature words, scratched into the paint or written over the paint in purple. The words are: "Revenge", "Potion", "Secret", "Freddy" and "Haunted".

Tie Dye 1

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

This tie dye piece features a random pattern in mostly purple and green. There is a circle of dark blue dots near the center. The dyes seeped and bled together along the ties and folds to create different shapes and lines. Some of the white of the cloth remained, peeking through the colorful pattern.

Tie Dye 2

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

This minimal tie dye piece is mostly white. There are a few lines of blue, green, and purple running diagonally from right to left.

Glenda from Wicked

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

This paper mache sculpture resembles Glenda the Good Witch from Wicked. The sculpture itself is tall and thin, with a small rounded head painted peach with two blue eyes and blonde hair. The rest of the sculpture is covered in bright pink tissue paper. It is textured and flares out near the bottom to resemble a gown.

One

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

This tie die piece features distinct, heavily colored lines that run from the upper left corner in an arc to the bottom right corner. The upper right half of the square mirrors the bottom left of the square. Each line is a different color, starting with purple in the corner, bleeding into pink, which bleeds into blue. Then a darker purple line bleeds into a darker pink line.

Love of Wicked Sewing

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidered on denim

This blue denim rectangle features a smaller, centered rectangle. It is made of tight, white stitches. At the center of the smaller rectangle is a heart that has been stitched in tight white stitches. The heart touches the top and the bottom of the rectangle border and features nine stitched lines that radiated to its edges from the center.

Three

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

This bandana is brightly colored in distinct vertical lines of purple, pink and blue lines. Each color bleeds into the next. The way the square was folded and tied during the dying process has created interesting dye resistance that has created different white lines and lighter patterns in the dye.

Two

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

This tie dye piece features an elongated oval pattern that has been created by the way the square was folded and tied during the dying process. The coloring has created a series of lines along the shape of the oval that start smaller at the center and get bigger as they move toward the edges, starting with a solid purple center. This bleeds into a thin blue line, which bleeds into thicker pink line. This bleeds into a purple line that is thicker still. The next thinner line is pink. Then another thin blue line. The piece finishes with purple corners.

Web of Love

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

Black lines of different thicknesses radiate around this piece, starting at the center and moving to the outer edges. Smaller horizontal lines connect the vertical lines, from the center out. At the very center is a heart shaped, created with thinner black lines. This has created a spider web stained glass effect behind a heart. Each section of the web is painted a different color – pink, purple, yellow, green or blue. There are also solid black hearts peppered throughout the larger heart at the center.

Angel Vase

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

This paper mache sculpture features a small cylindrical base painted brown that moves up to a cylindrical body that tapers to a point. The body is painted blue, with different yellow-colored shapes. Off the back off the piece is a near complete circle. It splits near the top of the piece, giving the appearance of wings. The 'wings' are painted pure white with an even yellow boarder around the edges.

Faith over Darkness

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

This painting features an object in the middle of the canvas that is almost hand-shaped. It is painted a dark peach color. The hand shape sits in front of a bright white cross, with sections of radiating color in the background. The rays alternate between dark yellow and light yellow. Each shape and section of the piece is separated by a black outline, giving it the look of stained glass.

Hit the Be Square

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidered on denim

This piece features a pattern of nested consecutive diamonds that start small at the center and get bigger as they move out toward the edges. The diamonds are embroidered into the denim using multi-colored yarn, in small, even stitches. This creates sections of different colors – green, white, brown, purple, red and dark red.

One Fold and Stein

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

This bandana is brightly colored in a line pattern. The way it has been folded and tied during the dying process has created a psychedelic look of different colors that bleed into one another in different shapes and patterns. The predominant colors are orange, purple, blue and brown. There is also a bit of yellow and where the colors mix together, there is light green, red and pink.

Two Fold and Stein

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

This tie dye piece is brightly colored, with a diagonal line pattern. The way it was folded and tied during the dying process has created a psychedelic look of different colors that bleed together in different shapes and patterns. The predominant colors are black, yellow, green, purple, orange, pink and white.

Three Fold and Stein

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

This piece features a unique design where the colors create a mirrored pattern of spiraled colors. Across the upper half, two spirals of blue, green, purple and orange come out of the right and left corners and meet near the center. The colors bleed together in different shapes and patterns. The bottom half is a mirror replication of the top half.

Calm

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

This tie dye bandana is colored mostly blue, with a green pattern that radiates from a light green circle at the center. Moving toward the top and bottom edges, the green is thicker and almost creates a full vertical line. The green is more subtle moving from the center to the right and left.

Christmas Seattle Space Needle

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

This sculpture resembles the Seattle Space Needle. It features a thick, rectangular base. Each side is painted a different color, including red and yellow. A sphere sits at the top. It has been painted black, with squares of white that go all the way around the sphere, resembling windows.

Frustration

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

This tie dye piece features a distinct pattern of nesting, concentric diamonds that start smaller in the center and get larger as it moves toward the outer edges. At the very center, a unique color pattern is created with pink dye seeping and bleeding into purple dye. This bleeds into a thin purple diamond, which bleeds into a thin blue diamond. Then there is another purple diamond that bleeds into solid blue to all four corners.

One of a Kind Sky Piece

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

This bandana is died completely blue. The way the cloth was folded and tied during the dying process has created a subtle pattern of white circles that ripple from the center outward. It looks similar to the ripple effect of a drop in a pool.

Sun

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

This tie dye piece is colored bright yellow. The way the cloth was folded, crumpled and tied during the dying process has created a very subtle pattern of lighter yellow shapes and lines throughout.

Ever After High

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

This sculpture features different shapes stacked on top of each other. At the bottom is a thick cylinder that moves up to connect with a round thick disk. Coming out of the disk is a thinner vertical cylinder, with a horizontal cylinder coming out of the left and right sides. This connects to a square with another cylinder balanced on the back right corner of the square. Each shape features a base color of red, yellow or green, with dark blue or pink spatters and scribbles over the top. This provides dimension and texture across the entire piece.

Ever After High

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

This rectangular denim piece features 17 even columns of holes that move across the piece. There are haphazard stitches coming in and out of random holes, creating a random pattner of stitches of all different lengths and directions. Some go over the top edge, while others go over the bottom edge. Different colors of yarn were used, including red, white, grey and purple.

Fall

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

This tie dye piece features vertical lines of purple and pink over a green background. The top half is a mirror of the bottom half, which has created a thick pink line that runs through the center of the piece from the left edge to the right edge of the square.

Fall

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

This bandana features a unique rounded concentric diamond pattern that radiates from a purple circle at the center of the square. Each diamond is made up of broken purple lines over a green background. There is also a broken X that crosses through the entire square.

Fall

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

This tie dye piece is mostly green. The way it was folded, crumpled and tied during the dying process has resulted in random splotches of bright orange and pink throughout, with the colors bleeding and seeping into each other.

Fall

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

This piece features a distinct diamond pattern, brightly colored in orange, pink, purple, green, blue and black. The diamonds are nested, radiating out of a smaller orange diamond at the center. This gives way to a thin, pink diamond with purple edges. Next is a green diamond that bleeds to purple and then blue before going purple again. Next is a green diamond that gives way to range before going green again. Black spots of seeping dye pepper the entire piece.

Halloween

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

This piece is painted mostly dark purple, in thick random brush strokes. Throughout the purple are strokes of different, brighter colors, including red, blue and yellow. A series of vertical black lines move across the piece from right to left. Each line is a different length and thickness.

Queen Dee

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

This piece features a bright background of yellow blended with purple and blue. In the upper right corner is a mosaic of geometric shapes in purple and blue. Thick black lines separate each piece, giving it a stained glass effect. At the center of the canvas is a crown painted black and highlighted with blue. It features with seven points. Each point features a white diamond at the tip. Across the bottom are stylized, all cap letters highlighted in pink. They spell out the word, "Queen".

Flowers

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

This bandana features a spiral pattern across the top that is mirrored on the bottom. In each corner is a green spiral surrounded by pink dye that seeps and bleeds into the green. Purple dots speckle the edges of the spirals and pink sections. Through the middle is a thick blue line that seeps into the purple speckles.

Halloween

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

This brightly colored tie dye features a mirrored pattern on the top and bottom that has created a diamond at the center of the square. Each corner is colored blue, which bleeds into a thin line of green. This bleeds into a thicker line of yellow, which gives way to a broken line of dark pink. This is where the diamonds start taking shape. The next line is pink, which creates a full diamond. At the center is a solid blue diamond.

Lightening

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

This tie dye piece is colored orange, purple, pink, white and blue. The way the cloth was folded, crumpled and tied has created random shapes of color that seep and bleed together, separated in areas by white.

Paper Mache

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

This sculpture features a square bottom paointed in visible strokes of different dark colors. This includes dark blue, red and black. A smaller square juts otu of each side of teh larger square. The smaller squares are painted colors like orange and black. Each has a face painted on it, with two eyes, a nose and a mouth. Sitting atop the square is a cylindar. It is painted with the dark colors, with thick, visible strokes.

Thunder

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

This tie dye piece features a concentric, nested diamond pattern in purple and black. It starts with a solid black diamond at the center. THen a thick purple diamond. Then a larger, thick black diamond. Then a larger purple diamond. Then a black diamond. Lastly, each corner is colored purple. The diamonds are all the same thickness. The way the cloth was folded and dyed has created ripples and lines of white throughout.

Yarn

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

This rectangle of denim features 17 columns of holes moving vertically across the denim. Yarn stitches have been made randomly across the holes, creating a series of lines that are different angles and lengths. Red, white and grey yard has been used.

Different Colors

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

This bandana features a distinct pattern of concentric, nested circles. At the center is a dark pink circle. It is engulfed in a dark purple circle. Some of the purple dye has bled through the pink dye, creating lines that look almost like a peace sign. The purple circle is surrounded by a light blue cicle, which bleeds into pink that goes to the edges of the square.

Hope Rocket

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

This sculpture features a thin rectangular body with different shapes coming off of it. There is a small round protrusion toward the front and a tall cylindrical protrusion coming out of the middle of body. This is covered in blue tissue paper, which has been wrinkled and crumpled to give it texture. The rest of the piece is covered in scraps of red, yellow and pink tissue paper, each blending into each other. It too is wrinkled and crumpled to give the piece texture.

My Favorite Colors

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

This piece is brightly colored with light blue, dark pink, purple, green and yellow. The tying during the dying process created a unique pattern that looks like a large flower, with four pointed petals. The flower is pink, with bright spots of yellow. At each corner of the square are semi circles of purple, that bleeds into a band of green. The rest of the piece is blue with lines and spots of purple throughout.

Snake Smiley face

Workshop: Sashiko
Medium: yarn embroidery on denim

This rectangle features one vertical column of evenly spaced stitches on the left side. To the right of this column are 12 rows of evenly spaced stitches. The majority of the stitches are white; however, there are three rows of stitches in a gradient purple that goes from light to take to light again.

The Telescope

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

This bandana features a series of horizontal lines in intense color. At the top is a thick line of blue. This is followed by purple, dark pink and orange at the middle. Then orange, pink, purple and blue, moving toward the bottom. Each line bleeds and seeps into the next.

Unnamed

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

This canvas features a grid of black lines. They are nearly all evenly spaced and straight. This has created a series of rectangles. Each one is painted a different color: pink, blue, light blue, dark red, purple, dark purple, white, yellow and orange.

Vandal Colors

Workshop: Tie Dye
Medium: dye on cotton

This bandana features a pattern made up of concentric, nesting squares. The colors of each square alternate from yellow to black. They start small at the center and get bigger as they move out to the edges of the bandana. Each square is evenly set and they are all roughly the same thickness, with the colors bleeding into one another.