by Carol Conklin | Oct 2, 2013
This Autumn, Mother Nature has been smiling on us. The air is soft and sweet and smells wonderful. Light mists rise from the fields and the mountains are accented with both deep shadows and highlights of sun. The air is a soft caress. Insects sing loudly their songs...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 30, 2013
A long sizzling sound filled the air amid the chorus of many bugs in the surrounding woods and fields. The insects produce a meditative buzz in the summer that seems to get louder as fall arrives. The “sizzle bug” is what I call this insect that heralds a...
by Carol Conklin | Jul 2, 2013
My fans are always asking me how I make my batik art. I thought I would make a poster to show them how it’s done! This is a simplified explanation of all the steps that are involved, but I thought I should share it with you here on my blog as well....
by Carol Conklin | Jun 5, 2013
Here are some process pictures of my large batik (26″x 39″), “Magic Frogs Rising.” You can see the batik in the long shallow dyebath, many pictures of the finished work still covered with wax, and finally covered with paper, a small section...
by Carol Conklin | May 21, 2013
Spring has evolved to what now seems like summer and the month of May is at the end. Memorial Day will always be an anniversary of when we moved to Amity Farm in Hartford, New York at the foothills of the Adirondacks. My Morgan mare, Amity (means friendship), gave her...
