Getting ready for spring art sales!! Early prints on the newest dyes on scarves!
(elegant "Elephant Elbow" medium grey, top; and "Riverbottom" ---looking cool
on an earlier 'Wet Rhino' dyed T-shirt.....)
First up, ArtUnleashed scholarship sale 4/10---13/2013 at 320 S. Broad St., Phila., PA.
Then I will be at Mt. Airy Day in wonderful Northwest Philadelphia on 5/4/13. More to come!

{Whew that was a busy holiday season --and thanks to all my customers old and new for
making 2012 a great year!!!}  It's a New Year,  so here are new dyed shirts and scarves! Colors from the bottom up: a  Mist Grey plus "Elephant Elbow"
mix; Cerulean blue (my own recipe); "Riverbottom";  and "Muckleberry" for the very
first dye bath I did this year.....
Gotta get a big pile of things to be printing this winter for this year's sales!!

2 Late Fall-Early Holiday Sales!

Announcing 2 upcoming art/craft/gift sales

that I am participating in, with my hand-printed

               T-shirts and scarves!!--

•Waldorf School of Philadelphia Holiday Sale
7500 Germantown Ave., Eagles 2 Bldg., Phila., PA.
(on New Covenant Campus, across the Ave. from the Trolley Car Diner)

Friday 11/16/12, 6-10 pm, and Sat. 11/17/12, 10 am-5 pm

•Midtown Village Holiday Craft Sale at
William Way Community Center, Ballroom, 1315 Spruce Street,
in Center City Philadelphia, PA:   Friday, November 30, 2012, 5 - 8 pm;
Saturday, December 1 & Sunday, December 2, Noon - 5 pm

 

Look at all those Super-Cool T-shirts---Get ’em, hot off the press!!

          More events to come in December proper!!

Philadelphia Open Studio Tour -October 6 & 7, 2012; AND Art Market at Tyler School of Art;

That's me, the Printmaking (or should that be Paper-cutting) “Gem”----just kidding!
Not puttin’ on airs or graces here, even
with the lovely pink pearl statement, along with the rad art-worker T-shirt...
    But, I am putting on 2 super T-shirt sales starting this weekend:
Philly Open Studio Tours at Mt. Airy Art Garage, in their newest indoor space permutation--
(now with fresh new artist studios!)
11 W. Mt. Airy Avenue in Philly--12-6p on 10/6 and 12-5p on 10/7/12.
    The fun continues next weekend at the first-ever Art Market at Tyler School of Art
(Temple University) at 2001 N. 13th Street at the Tyler Building in Philadelphia---11a-7p on
both 10/12 and 10/13/12--I am table #6 there! This show/sale helps benefit
scholarships for Tyler-- always happy to help out some art students, yeah!

More shows to come in November and December for your shopping and gifting pleasure,
be sure to stay tuned!

Screenprint Image of O&W Station in Middletown, New York

The latest T-shirt! An image of the historic O&W railroad station located in Middletown, New York.
The original photo was taken by my brother, Glenn Schwass. I love the Victorian architecture
style of the building. (Unfortunately it is abandoned and in bad shape at present, so perhaps this T-shirt image will help preserve its memory longer...)

I am currently getting ready for Fall craft sales, and anticipate selling my wares at
the Tyler craft sale (Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA) on October 12 and 13----
as well as participation in other to-be-announced art & craft sale venues from now through
the Winter/Holiday season. Time to be busy!
The above T-shirt design will very likely show up during at least one or 2 of these sales--
along with some new designs and some re-discovered older ones!

finally, the 2nd annual mt.airy night market!

I will be at the Mt Airy Night Market this coming Thursday
8/16/12--at the Mt. Airy Art Garage, 11 W. Mt. Airy Ave--
just steps from Germantown Ave.
I will have some new scarves! some more silk
now too....
As well as my usual cool shirts! Stop by if you
are around the area! The Art Garage will
have live music that night!

  The vibe of the Night Market
last summer was very cool, so we expect great things.
And this year, it's not just about the food!!

Discharge Printing on Dark Silk

I just finished these discharge prints on black silk scarves.
This black dye has blue-ish undertones in it--so it turned out kind of like a
dark-field-cyanotype-batik effect. When the printed fabric is held up to light,
it is even more beautiful. I got to be more painterly in my working back selectively
into the first round of printing on the silk, as I discovered accidentally what would
further lighten the printing. The black dye is likely an acid dye, as it is hard to
get a solid black dye on silk. I plan to continue experimenting with dyeing
and discharge printing on different weaves of silk, since I have always loved
silk fabric.