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JOB: Fiber artist
GENDER: Female
% OF INCOME FROM ART?: 76-100%
$ YOU SPEND ON ART SUPPLIES EACH YEAR: Choose
MEMBER SINCE: 02/11/2008
LAST LOGIN: 02/03/2010 21:56:41
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I create paintings using silk as my canvas and liquid dyes as my paint. I have always been a lover of nature and am often awestruck at her design and color. Most of my work is inspired by my Caribbean roots (I was born in Trinidad), and my paintings are a celebration of the vibrant colors and exotic flavor of the tropics. For me, silk is the perfect medium for this expression - it has a luminous quality that allows the transparent dyes to sparkle with wonderful brilliance. The dyes, which are painted in layers with a paintbrush, spread as soon as they touch the silk. The way the they move and blend on the silk is like a dance, which I find endlessly fascinating. The silk itself becomes part of the process in that its texture, weight and weave dictate how the dyes interact with it. Since the dyes are impossible to control completely, the end result is quite unpredictable, but that’s exactly what I love about it – each painting is an adventure. I want people seeing my work to share that adventure with me… to smell my flowers, hear my birds... to revisit some exotic place that they have been, even if only in their imagination.

To see more of my work, please visit

My website - thesilkartstudio.com
My blog - younglaosilkpaintings.blogspot.com

HOBBIES
hiking, biking, gardening, reading

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From: SheilaBledsoe
11/05/2009 12:23:27

Hi:

 Some time ago you left a very nice comment for me. I want to say thank you and apologize for not responding sooner. Family issues over the last few months kept me from participating in artscuttlebut the way I wanted to when I signed up, but I have added new images today and hope to participate more in the future.

 I looked and your gallery and love your silk. You get such depth and light. I've worked with silk and it isn't an easy medium. My hats off to you for the way you handle it. I especially love the flamingos.

Sheila Bledsoe 

From: cjeltes
07/29/2009 16:25:22

Hey--

 Thanks for your comments on "Botanika".  I hadn't thought about it having an underwater feel to it before, but now that you've mentioned it, it really does...and I like it!  Thank you!

Catherine



From: cjeltes
05/22/2009 12:31:34

Oh--and thanks for your comments on "Tropicana"--exactly what I was going for ;o)  After visiting your gallery, I see why this piece appeals to you!

Catherine



From: cjeltes
05/22/2009 12:24:52

Cary--

Thanks so much for your comment on "Crane".  So sorry it has taken me such a long while to get back to you--I have been away from ASB for a bit.  Love the colors and designs that emerge in your pieces.

Catherine



From: LaurenCurtis
05/21/2009 18:05:49

Thanks for your comment about my "Winter Walk" photo!  That's an in-camera, double exposure (35mm film) so that's how I got the layered effect.  I love the colors and fluidity of your work!  Really pretty!

:) Lauren



From: selliot
05/11/2009 18:30:31
Thanks for visiting my trees.  I so enjoy your colorful work!


From: BttrcpMonkey
04/10/2009 09:14:16
thanks for your comment - I haven't been on here in a while [toddler distractions] - i'm going to check out your works....:)


From: jackson4lee
04/09/2009 22:48:07
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until
they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

And nobody know... now I got you !!!



Rgds,

Jamie

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From: alston
04/07/2009 17:29:09

Yes, thanks to you I figured out the " following thing" on my blog.Now if I can just figure out the rest.


To answer your question, yes the ladies DO wear those kind of hats to the Kentucky Derby. It had been tradition since the beginning. And as far as seeing around them or getting hit by one of them, I think you just " stay out of their way " LOL


Anyway the men come to see THE RACES and the women come to BE SEEN ! LOL  OOPS ! Hope I don't get in trouble with some of my " southern ladie friends" It's ok for me to say something about them because I'm " A SOUTHERN LADY"



From: alston
04/03/2009 21:17:42

Deborah, You are the best. Thank you for following my blog and especially thank you for the help.As soon as I can figure out how, I will follow your blog.


Thanks again, Alston



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