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i have a tablet that works again yayyy

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award-winning palestinian children's illustrator baraa awoor writes:

"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"

some of baraa's illustrations:

this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:

this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:

"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"

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Rollercoaster Tycoon, spring 2024.

machine pieced, long-arm quilted. some of the top is naturally dyed with madder or painted on with bleach. (the ice dye you might be spotting was done by my professor! <33)

i feel like no matter what lighting i try to take photos of this little quilt in, it either looks washed out of over-saturated :/// oh well!! some backlog from school (which i graduated from! whoa!) this was my first improvisational quilt and my first time using our long-arm sewing machine! i miss her ;;;;~;;;; but this little guy cemented for me how much i like allowing a quilt to be whatever wonky shape it turns out as.

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a quilt i made my mom for her birthday :))) she loves blues and floral patterns 💙🌻💙🌊💙☀️💙🦄💙

machine pieced and quilted, backed with a mended old flannel blanket. I embroidered the little label/message with perle cotton. some of the fabric is dyed in indigo or painted with dye-na-flow (when I ran out of blues!!!)

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Dyeing silk in black walnut is the best. You just boil some nuts and chuck the silk in the pot no mordant like with cotton or linen no worrying about it seizing of felting like with wool i love you silk in black walnut

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thank you everyone for your continued support. this past semester was very rough and i'm about to go into my very lsat one and its kind of killing me but we will get there. and then i will have time. to blog

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might be a weird ask but i like your work and wouldn't mind like, trying to learn from you? as an artist.

yeah do literally whatever the fuck you want. trace it for all i care. for that matter you should learn from any and all artists you enjoy, not just me. save it all into a folder impulsively, print them out and tape them to your wall (i do!). copy elements directly, the way an artist draws an arm, a mouth, anything. steal outfits from drawings, theyre free! its all free, did you know that? you dont actually have to ask like youre doing here. in fact, dont ask! i feel like we might be at a low point or something in the general understanding of art if we really feel a need to ASK before we mimic or take inspiration from somebody. honestly id like it if it just happened while i wasnt looking, i really dont need to be made aware. im not conjuring my artwork out of the ether or anything. i copy and mimic and trace all the time, every artist does, its not weird, its all free.

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i just love...her tripp pants....

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nononoririri

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wolves and sheep puzzle <3

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that quilter is Noriko Endo!!!!

an art quilt sample. its about 14x18in i think.

pentel dye sticks, procion dye on top of some of the fabric treated with the dye sticks, and scraps sandwiched between a backing fabric and a layer of tulle so that when i free-motioned sewed it in the machine the little scraps wouldn't get caught in the ring of the machine foot. there's a specific quilter that does this and my teacher based on the idea to me but i can't find her name rn :(

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an art quilt sample. its about 14x18in i think.

pentel dye sticks, procion dye on top of some of the fabric treated with the dye sticks, and scraps sandwiched between a backing fabric and a layer of tulle so that when i free-motioned sewed it in the machine the little scraps wouldn't get caught in the ring of the machine foot. there's a specific quilter that does this and my teacher based on the idea to me but i can't find her name rn :(

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littlest paolo

naturally dyed linen, button-jointed limbs, all sewn by hand.

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another bear. this one took forever because for some reason i really felt like i needed to hand-sew down all the lace

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Meatcat, 2022.

the majestic sphinx is known for her riddles and oracles. please ask her about whatever's on your mind.

materials, processes, measurements:

organic cotton naturally dyed with madder and alum+ferrous sulfate mordant. I didn't mordant the base cloth so the madder would come out as this dusty pink instead of a bright red. I drew out my pattern pieces on the fabric and then spent a full week drawing on the mordant pattern with a little squeeze bottle applicator. Then I cut, sewed, and garment-dyed her. She's stuffed mostly with scrap foam and yarn from my school. She is Heavy and big, maybe 3.5 ft / 1 m long.

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a definite favorite of all the bears i made. her new dad named her patricia

i layered and sewed down cotton and linen scraps over some kind of synthetic mesh, then used devoree paste to burn away some of the cellulose fiber. she's button-pointed at her legs and stuffed with recycled polyfil, sequins, and beads.