A Studio Weekend of Dyeing and Printing

Saturday was all about the eco-dyeing and printing and it was Hot. I wrapped and cooked 11 bundles, fabrics I’ll use to make some wall pieces for my upcoming show “Must Love Art”.

As the sun was going down, I felt like a kid that had been playing in the dirt […]

Creating Art to Order

A good-sized batch of my scarves will be winging it’s way toward the east coast soon

It will include 12 of the eco-printed variety

And, 12 of my breakdown screen-printed kind, too

July 16th, 2014 | Tags: , , , | Category: Art Business, Art Process, breakdown screen printing, Eco dye, silkscreen printing on fabric, wholesale selling | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Studio Fruits: Dye Drawings on Cloth – A Place of Not Knowing

A few months ago, I had assembled a group of dye drawings on 13 large silk screen frames and spent a day printing these out on cloth, sharing a few photos of that work in process in a previous post.

Below are some of the fruits from that day of printing in the studio:

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 […]

Art and Garden Parties

Weekend Road Trip – Art Parties

Is it really Monday? The weekend was a blur – It’s great to have such a creative family, although 2 solo show openings (one in Denver and one in Steamboat) on the same weekend is pretty over the top.

My partner, Barbara Gilhooly had a reception for her solo […]