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?

who's the shadow (no cabe duda)
11 1/2" x 29 1/2"

Yellow Pine recycled board

Black Walnut "discard" veneer

Earth ochre pigments

wheat flour

whey polyurethane

tung oil

recycled metal screws

 "who's the shadow (no cabe duda)" mystery develops, 8 - 10, with working in whey polyurethane, tung oil and "flaked paint"...

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who's the shadow

above with paper blocking out template in place,

to the right application of medium with pigment,

and lower right some nuts added to weigh Black Walnut down into wet medium pigment and left to dry

baked art studies

have decided to mount these pieces for display on an 11" recycled pine board. another hanging option w/o the backing I posted can be considered for your own commissioned baked art piece/s if you have money and/or ie., organic vegetables et al...

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2012/08/82612-1-2.html...

bird heart spirit                 11" x 11"                mixed eco materials        

mixed materials;

og wheat flour

sea salt

water

earth pigments (ochres)

red onion skins
salvaged pine board

82612 1                      11" x 11"                   mixed eco materials

mixed materials;

og wheat flour

sea salt

water

earth pigments (ochres)

kale stems
salvaged pine board

82612 2                    11" x 11"                  mixed eco materials

mixed materials;

og wheat flour

sea salt

water

earth pigments (ochres)

green tape 

salvaged pine board

Trachycarpus fortunei

one of the two young "Windmills" that gifted me with their old fronds for "a land to stand on" and another work still in its early stages. some variants of these palms will grow up to 66'. they are cultivated as far north as Scotland and Alaska. thinking energetically/medicinally it may be effective in insulating from the cold and salt air.

Trachycarpus fortunei (Chusan palm, named after the Chinese island of Chusa) is considered in Chinese medicine to be a mild essential herb with haemostatic and astringent properties. Here in the USA it is commonly called Windmill Palm or Chinese Windmill Palm. In TCM it is referred to as Trachycarpus wagnerianus 
from http://www.tcmassistant.com/;

Properties Nature Neutral.  Taste Bitter, astringent.  Organ Liver, Large Intestine, Lungs, Spleen.  Toxicity Non toxic. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachycarpus_fortunei Trachycarpus fortunei has been cultivated in China and Japan for thousands of years, grown for its coarse but very strong leaf sheath fibre, used for making ropes, sacks, and other coarse cloth where great strength is important. The extent of this cultivation means that the exact natural range of the species is uncertain.

Actions Harmonizes the Blood. Stops bleeding.

"a land to stand on"

a land to stand on                 42" x 60"                mixed medium

this photo taken with not right lighting shows the piece on my studio floor with only a few
things needed for completion; will ask/seek/decide on hanging apparatus and fine tune some of the applied beeswax/natural pigment front and back, threads, etc.

"a land to stand on"

has paint applied and much of the paper removed...

"a land to stand on"

"a land to stand on"

the butcher block paper will be removed once the fronds are painted and become material for another work(s). the fronds draw the height at about 42" and the Mahogany board creates a width of 60".
a mixed medium piece with Beeswax and natural pigments, Mahogany/tung oil and Palm sp. leaf (looking for id), recycled screws and several drill bits.
the Beeswax is from our troubled bee populations, the Mahogony I liberated from my landlord's, (thank's Darren!), and my small stack of various pieces of wood and the Palm fronds were trimmed as dying lower fronds last month from a couple trees in the back yard.