Some dye results

Two paintings emerged from that piece of dyed linen, using local natural dyes and some silk dye.  Two images of Plainsboro Preserve, seen from the nature center.   As I suspected, I'd made two paintings rather than one. This happens to me a lot.

One of them will go into the local artists' association Festival exhibit in September, once I decide which. The theme is local color, so mine is definitely that -- dyes made from locally picked material, to create an image of a local place, in fact where the artists plein air outing went to back in May.  It's the same viewpoint from which I made those contour drawings which I posted in here.  

Here's sunrays breaking through over the water and trees and the peninsula suggested in the background. Foliage in the foreground.

 
There's the lake, rippling in the foreground, the peninsula across the water, and more water around it, then a rosy sky in the background.  Foliage suggested here and there, with reflections, and cloud shapes.