"converging"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Red Beet dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"synchronizing"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Red Beet dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"converging"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Swiss Chard & Garlic dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"merging"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Swiss Chard & Garlic dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"Moss/Root curbed with the sidewalk"

Loquat sidewalk art

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/loquat.html

Food Uses
The skin of the loquat is easily removed. Peeled and seeded fruits are eaten fresh, sometimes combined with sliced banana, orange sections and grated coconut. They are delicious simply stewed with a little sugar added. The fruits are also used in gelatin desserts or as pie-filling, or are chopped and cooked as a sauce. Loquats canned in sirup are exported from Taiwan. Some people prepare spiced loquats (with cloves, cinnamon, lemon and vinegar) in glass jars. The fruit is also made into jam and, when slightly underripe, has enough pectin to make jelly. The jelly was formerly manufactured commercially in California on a small scale.

Food Value Per 100 g of Edible Portion*
Calories	168
Protein	1.4 g
Fat	0.7 g
Carbohydrates	43.3 g
Calcium	70 mg
Phosphorus	126 mg
Iron	1.4 mg
Potassium	1,216 mg
Vitamin A	2,340 I.U.
Ascorbic Acid	3 mg

*Analyses reported by the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The fruit contains laevulose, sucrose and malic acid and lesser amounts of citric, tartaric and succinic acid. The pulp contains the carotenoids B-carotene (33%); y-carotene (6%); cryptoxanthin (22%), lutein, violaxanthin, neoxanthin (3-4% each). The peel is 5 times richer than the pulp in carotenoids which are similar to those in apricots.
Toxicity
A 5-year-old girl in Florida ate 4 unripe loquats, fell asleep and was difficult to awaken and seemed dazed. After about 2 hours, she was back to normal. There have been instances of poisoning in poultry from ingestion of loquat seeds. The seeds contain amygdalin (which is converted into HCN); also the lipids, sterol, b-sitosterol, triglyceride, sterolester, diglyceride and compound lipids; and fatty acids, mainly linoleic, palmitic, linolenic and oleic. There is amygdalin also in the fruit peel. The leaves possess a mixture of triterpenes, also tannin, vitamin B and ascorbic acid; in addition, there are traces of arsenic. Young leaves contain saponin. Some individuals suffer headache when too close to a loquat tree in bloom, The emanation from the flowers is sweet and penetrating.
Other Uses
Wood: The wood is pink, hard, close-grained, medium-heavy. It has been used instead of pear wood in making rulers and other drawing instruments.
Animal feed: The young branches have been lopped for fodder.
Perfume: In the 1950's, the flowers attracted the interest of the perfume industry in France and Spain and some experimental work was done in extraction of the essential oil from the flowers or leaves. The product was appealing but the yield was very small.
Medicinal Uses: The fruit is said to act as a sedative and is eaten to halt vomiting and thirst.

The flowers are regarded as having expectorant properties. An infusion of the leaves, or the dried, powdered leaves, may be taken to relieve diarrhea and depression and to counteract intoxication from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Leaf poultices are applied on swellings.

Pinus sp sidewalk art

and with the "Curly Dock" processing;

this would make a great installation with the Dock sprouting, rooting and growing into the paper
the 6" x 6"s and the old moss/lichen picnic table...

perhaps sitting under the old apple tree.... Use your imagination and watch it grow. With time limitations and wanting to unload the press to catch the effects of the Dock root with the paper I chose to break it down. To catch up here it may help to check out this previous entry...  http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/07/before-dismantling-press.html

and then with the prints I felt I wanted to place a wash of a variant color upon the prints for contrast and a softening. I used coffee w/cream (1/2 & 1/2, where cassein is derived from). Hope you enjoy these finished? pieces.

Curly Dock 1

Curly Dock 2

Curly Dock 3

Curly Dock 4

before dismantling the press...

... the sprouting Curly Dock roots after dismantling the press.

a couple feet observing the prints before drying...

 

some notes;

I cleared an area of Broadleaf Dock Rumex obtusifolius for my landloard. Related to Yellow or Curly Dock Rumex crispus, it doesn't have quite the content level of berberines, and is a lighter shade of yellow. It is aptly medicinal with less intensity. 

After rinsing I strew the roots upon four Khadi papers in the rain (medium: watercolor). Then I pulverized with a granite stone and placed some rotting, moldy, mossy, wet 6" x 6"s I borrowed from the woodpile to press (grid markers). We're due for some heavy rains... the "rest" will be up to nature's enfoldment. A final lathering with whole milk goat yogurt will finish the pieces...

I've been eating rabbit this past week... pareidolia expression?

Between the Summer Solstice & the Full Moon

16” x 25”

Earth pigments & flaked paint

Og Wheat paste

Watermelon juice & pulp

Cassein fixative

Khadi paper

some of our process...

bright in the summer Sun Khadi paper is laid out with eaten watermelon’ juice & pieces. I’ve mixed wheat flour for stability in adhering to the paper. The watermelon juice filled with sugars will act as a binder, preservative and as colorant.

a dish filled with Yellow Ochre pigment, wheat paste & water is ready for final application with Green Ochre & Blue Oxide color pigments already established on the paper…

finalizing work with Cassein fixative

Black Water Snake Loti           27” x 32”          mixed eco-friendly materials                 

Earth ochre pigments

Beeswax & natural pigments (Stockmar)

green Walnut husk dye

Rainbow Swiss Chard dye

remineralized spring water

Khadi paper

Elephant dung paper

butcher block paper

^{Eco Friendly Art Studio Sale}

^{Greg Patch’ Beeswax, Egg Tempera & Wheat flour mediums}

^{with Earth pigments, recycled materials and natural papers}

^{Sat, April 13th, 2013}

^{1 - 5 PM at Green Art Studio, 518 Grace St}

^{in historical downtown Wilmington}

^&

^{$1/min chair massage from} 

^{Andrea Sondey of "Shakti Massage" www.shaktimassage.com}