Hand painted, Wood Veneer Fabric, Sari Inspired, Ready to Install

             

     
                As you will see below, the final stages of the wood veneer fabric, my
                wood sari, have been completed. The day before Christmas. The last 
                flitches were cut and glued; the colored line was completed to the bottom
                of the aircraft ply underlayment;  more flowers were painted; and,
                most importantly for me; the bottom area and the pallu were completed.

                The first image below shows the bottoms of both the sari and the pallu 
                (with it's pattern repeated from the main body of the sari...)

Bottom of the sari with pattern defined by gesso
and infilled with colour

                     Just want to say a few words about the bottom of the sari. It was
                     derived from two sources. The first is the technique. I wanted to imitate
                     the technique that Mehndi artists such as Iti Chandra Kalsi use, by 
                     extruding a continuous piping out of a plastic bag through a nozzle.
                     That's the case here, where the orange forms are outlined by orange 
                     colored piping. The forms themselves represent flames and were 
                     were inspired by a pattern on a sari I saw by Mita Naidu and Lotus
                     Eye.

The wood veneer fabric sari on tables in
my office

                      Next up:  Hanging my sari...