Fly Me to the Moon

Yellow. It seems my most favorite color lately. Some have argued that it’s actually green.

LineScape #22 – Window Seat, 18.5 x 30 in. © Ayn Hanna

A deconstructed dye drawing on fabric

with thread as well

LineScape #22 – Window Seat (detail) © Ayn […]

New Work – “Mad Hatter”

New Work. Fewer Words. More Story.

"Mad Hatter" © Ayn Hanna Textile Painting, 29.5 x 27.5 in

"Mad Hatter" (detail) © Ayn Hanna

"Mad Hatter" (detail) © Ayn Hanna

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Be the (Golf) Ball

It might be a Zen thing. It’s definitely my favorite recurring dream.

I’m playing golf, enjoying the great outdoors, warm weather & sunshine. Feeling good and strong physically and emotionally, swinging the club. I tee up the ball, take a practice swing or two, and launch a great drive (I know it’s so because of […]

Color and Dreams

Carpet is in! Painting is finished! And we’re on the verge of getting the living room, bath room, and dining room back together again.

(clockwise from upper left) living room with new ceiling, carpet, lighting, and paint; bathroom with new carpet, paint; new ceiling fan; new carpet on the stairs.

After a month […]

I had a dream…

last night

that I was Hillary Clinton’s assistant.

She was still Secretary of State, very strong, vibrant, and happy. (I was excited and happy too….waaaaaay less stressed in this role than I am in my current day job.) Hillary and Barack had stopped by our home for a dinner party. We were joined by […]

Everything’s New All Over Again

So here we are, 2013 – the whirl and whiz of year end holidays are but a blur and the reality of a new year is setting in.

The New Year’s Eve Gala in Telluride was a smashing success, and a whole lot of fun! (Snow, cold, mountains, a great feast, meeting lots of great […]

Round and Round We Go

It began with a business meeting doodle:

I’ve been feeling circles lately. Inward and outward spirals, rings, orbits, orbs, dots, fullness, round, connectors, overlaps, snowflakes, whatever.

And next came this:

And this:

on the screens I made today. […]

Back from High-Altitude Hippie-ville

Ah Telluride….my students were Fantastic, the class was fun, and a good time was had by all!

Ann getting an up close view of my demo

Nancy, Kathy, and Michele printing their art cloth pieces

Ann watches as I modify the pre-printed texture on the screen; Ann's art cloth […]

Ready for my Art Cloth Workshop in Telluride

Art Cloth: Unique Hand-Printed Fabric is the workshop I’ll be teaching this coming weekend at the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride, CO.

"4 Corners" (detail), Art Cloth (breakdown dye screen printing on cotton fabric) ©Ayn Hanna

This year we’ll be using procion MX dyes and breakdown screen-printing techniques (also known […]

Prepping for my breakdown screen-printing workshop at Ah Haa in August

Various paraphernalia used for breakdown screen printing process

I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen family too.

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks of fire, rain, and family. The comings and goings of my Spanish family who thankfully visit from Madrid each summer and some rare vacation time for me […]