Visual Artist: T-Shirts and Cookies and Multi-media

December 31, 2025

Visual Artist: T-Shirts and Cookies and Multi-media

I'm not just a Nature Journaler. I have for years explored many ways to make visual art. Most of my art leans toward nature subjects. Most of my art is traditional, but I have also used computer generated bits in various projects.

T-shirt Prints

I have made many one-of-a-kind T-shirt prints. The designs could be though of as "artist proofs", the stencils are designed on a computer and printed on freezer-paper, hand-cut, then use special fabric paint to print (silk-screen type style) on t-shirt material. Not only making t-shirts as gifts for family members, but I've made entire quilts from my own designs to create hand-printed t-shirt blocks and assembled into quilts. It takes a long time to make a t-shirt quilt from blocks I design and print, then sew into a quilt. <t-shirt quilt link to be added soon>

"Lab Adore" Quilt

"Lab Adore" was awarded 'Best in Division - Innovative Quilts' at the LA County Fair in 2022,

Quilt top is made from the back of recycled T-shirts. There are 68 “art” blocks in the quilt
Photos were printed on the fabric using an ink jet printer, using a labor intensive process to make the images colorfast.
The images are hand-painted with hand-cut freezer paper stencils and fabric paint. Other fabric painting techniques, including fabric markers, were used.

Logos

In college I studied Graphics Arts design as part of my Industrial Education BA degree. After retirement, I've dabbled in creating various graphic art logos using computers. Logos is just one small aspect of my computer graphics projects.

Cookie Artist

Way back in 2011 I started my journey as a cookie artist, explorying cookie and cake artistry mostly as gifts for farmily and friends. My Grandchildren call me Baba. Hence my Cookie Artist Instagram is "Baba Bakes Art."

Find my cookie art on Instagram/BabaBakesArt.