As I am working out the colors and scale of landscape design in yarn and fabric, I find (maybe because of my seizures), I am not at black ink plans, I am at oil pastel and bright simple colors, easy to identify.
So, knowing the toxicity of oil pastels (oil, wax, pigment) and how they remain smearable even when a fixative is used, I have to not balance natural fibers against them, but acrylic yarn against them, due to the colors.
This changes both the cost (buying yarn vs. spinning fiber), and the method because natural yarns work up differently than acrylic. And how green is my planet if I am still using acrylic yarn? Cotton fiber and time-consuming dyeing is an alternative.
It also puts the time focus on making the yarn and not on the designing which is not what I want to do - I have already done that. Hmmmmm. I am wondering if I may as well just work in oil pastel on bio-friendly products.
Update:- oil pastel and solvents is not better than yarn. I solved the color issue with cotton floss. And the scale will be 1 to 10 (feet). I have a page complete with that scale and a paper-size of 8 x 10. I can go larger from here.
"Yarn Landscape Design No. 1" (c) laeom
The floss thread allows me to make either color designs or traditional black and white with color accents.
Eastern White Pine Design element (c) laeom - the colors have specific meanings as to planting a young pine.
