Creative work is such an internal process... while sharing it in thought on paper calls up a willingness to be in community. Giving voice to what we see and learn in making is a gift to be shared. Looking to connect with a new idea from a different vantage point, I always feel you there, across the table as I write and sketch.

-Diane

Diane's Journal

1 Color=GREEN   •   1 Stencil=SPRING LEAVES

1 Color=GREEN • 1 Stencil=SPRING LEAVES

GREEN=Opening, popping, emerging & unfurling everywhere. Spring in Oregon is pulling me up and forward into lighter colors.  At the tips of new shoots and in splendid carpets across the hillsides, it is...

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1 Color=GREEN • 1 Stencil=SPRING LEAVES

GREEN=Opening, popping, emerging & unfurling everywhere. Spring in Oregon is pulling me up and forward into lighter colors.  At the tips of new shoots and in splendid carpets across the hillsides, it is...

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A Divine RainCoat!

A Divine RainCoat!

This awsome raincoat started with the vibrant, painted fabric by a master of the  painted cloth, Miles Frode. We used using Jacquard Fabric Paints for this coat. He has created a...

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A Divine RainCoat!

This awsome raincoat started with the vibrant, painted fabric by a master of the  painted cloth, Miles Frode. We used using Jacquard Fabric Paints for this coat. He has created a...

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Exploring New Color Combos

Exploring New Color Combos

Fall always inspires a new intensity of color in my creative palette: Deeper colors in tones and shades of the colors I love to work with.  Tones? Shades?…Tints? what’s the...

Exploring New Color Combos

Fall always inspires a new intensity of color in my creative palette: Deeper colors in tones and shades of the colors I love to work with.  Tones? Shades?…Tints? what’s the...

MARCH 2018 NEWSLETTER

MARCH 2018 NEWSLETTER

We’re launching into spring design with surface design, great silhouettes and inventive construction ideas. Welcome to my new website!!! Open, clean and easier to navigate. In the coming months we...

MARCH 2018 NEWSLETTER

We’re launching into spring design with surface design, great silhouettes and inventive construction ideas. Welcome to my new website!!! Open, clean and easier to navigate. In the coming months we...

Making my Way: Dot to Dot

Making my Way: Dot to Dot

Many of us have a love affair with dots….they surface in my design work from time to time. Now is one of those moments....................................... Some of you know La Casa...

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Making my Way: Dot to Dot

Many of us have a love affair with dots….they surface in my design work from time to time. Now is one of those moments....................................... Some of you know La Casa...

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