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.

Satin Devore’ scarves on their way!

Here is an in-progress view of my first foray into doing the Devore’ process of
burning-out patterns on silk/rayon scarves---which will then be dyed!
I print the fabric etch onto the scarf; it removes the rayon and leaves the
silk part of the cloth blend behind.
I am so psyched to do this process!! Stay tuned for the next step---full color!

Mt. Airy Village Farmers' Market: Our Biggest Market Yet! Now with LS-Drew Graphics!!

Mt. Airy Village Farmers' Market: Our Biggest Market Yet!: We like to ask the patrons of the market how they would improve the market if they had the ability to do so. While we know that our mark...

At “Art for the Cash Poor” Last Weekend

I am holding my latest design, “Inventions,” comprised of my first laser cut
relief print (the building image below the xenon bulb --which is on my February 2012 post, in greater detail) -- and various types of light bulbs on both front and back of the shirt. Part of the back of
the shirt can be seen on the front of my table to the left of the coral and red shirts in the center. My table was in the “Icebox” at the Crane Building, (site of a former plumbing fixture factory,
converted to artists' studios) at 1400 N. American Street in Philadelphia.
(Photo by Glenn C. Schwass)