A rose by another name...

Nikki commented that the bok choy looked a bit like a stylised rose, and I think that she's right - the print especially has a rose look to it.

OK so here's my quick attempt to manipulate my Bok choy image in Paint Shop (not Photo Shop as I said yesterday - see I don't even know what program I have, let alone know how to use it!). I cropped the page to focus on one of the prints and then used a newspaper affect and then some sort of coloured edge effect (I think!).

I'm not wrapped in the image, but there are features that I like and things that I can see 'textile potential' in. I kinda like the soft greenish coloured squares that ended up around the outsides (I think that this is probably shaddow from the scanned image) - I'm seeing layered squares of sheers and other fabrics as a ground with stitching over-top...

Where to now?... I'm not sure yet, but I'd like to continue to see where this takes me. Stay tuned for further developments.

Bok Choy Printing

This is the bok choy stem from dinner the other night's dinner - isn't the shape interesting. I tried printing with it and got some nice 'light' prints - probably because of the moisture in the stems.

I'm going to try manipulating the image with photoshop (using my limited knowledge of photoshop) and see what happens. I'll keep you posted.