HI HO come to the Fair ! HALEIWA ARTS FESTIVAL 2019, one more time

With less than  three weeks away, the Haleiwa Arts Festival

 is looming largely  on the   horizon .

I have several project in the partially made stage, a few more almost ready and a few that need the final touch.  As a curious maker of ideas with cloth and color  into something perhaps 

 tangible, touchable, shareable, i get even more ideas as i work .

                                                             some coaster drying in the sun
                                 painted mostly with  what i like to call the original paint brush... finger tips!

This orchid with freckles makes me smile as i make yet more dots

Photo of one of the ladies from Yokohama paint class of 2012, in action dotting away.

We poured small amounts of paint into small recycled  plastic lids and well, play with color!

I'll be maning  booth # 88 near the front of festival near community and info tent. 

 This memorial is at the front of the 

Haleiwa Beach park, front entrance to Haleiwa Arts Festival

wonder what i'll make today with this yummy  sherbert color fabric? 

Come see what can  happens in 3 weeks! 

AND there will be some "dotty"  things including 

some little notebooks available as well

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dotty little notebooklettes

July 13/14 2019

Sat/Sun 10 am-5pm

Haleiwa beach Park=North Shore Oahu

110 Artists/Live Entertainment/ it's free

Hi Ho !

This is the 22nd  annual 

Haleiwa Arts Festival!!

end of march madness and a string theory

Well, this is a board full of coasters drying in the sun inspired by the berries that form on this palm tree in the colors of all seasons. This paint session  is Autumn and Xmas colors to me. After I sew up a batch of  fabric coasters, I  spray them with water and begin index finger painting the dots  with textile paints until i am happy with  the way colors look to me.

below is the palm tree of inspiration.

Inspiration is Everywhere all around us

  i am a nature nut and go about taking photos of what I see that moves me.

i call this tree "summer fall winter spring" as sometimes berry clusters on the tree show me  color signs of all the seasons at once. When i was a kid there was a princess Summerfall Winterspring on the Howdy Doody show with that name. That name Stuck with me.

 Does that sound familiar to anyone?

Now,  how i play sometimes  with strings of my painted fabrics is to 

first to arrange them in a pleasing manner, a strata of sorts.

Of course any fabric you have and like works . 

I happen to have a wealth of painted cloth.

Then I sew them on a base fabric and trim.

i did a bit of wavy sewing on topside  and you can see on the back of the  waffle like cloth

I will make a composition book cover later.

Then i might do some quilting and hand stitching as well.

It all depends on mood and the materials at hand.

That is my theory.

I find often the composition uses all the colors and recalls a sunset or sunrise.

 Nature is most grand!

When the notebook is full it can be refitted  with a fresh one.

Be well, SEE well, Sonja