slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: art
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I’ve gotten about another inch done on the tapestry. The lower part will have more blocks of solid color, but as I get higher, there will be more color mixing such as in this detail: That is where the sacking needle comes in handy. I think that the solid chunks of color near the bottom…
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I’m calling it “98% Water” for now. The light green band at the bottom is meant to be turned back for a hem or stretched to the back if I decided to mount this on canvas stretchers. It was the color that I began with for the teal color and realized that it was entirely…
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I decided to try my hand at dyeing with natural indigo powder this weekend since I missed my weeklong workshop at Arrowmont where I would have dyed with a fresh (fermented) indigo vat. Following instructions on the Dharma Trading website, I soaked the natural indigo powder overnight and ground it in a blender. I added…
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Sandy and I spent a couple of days at Lake Waccamaw at my cousin’s house last week. It was a busy week despite being on vacation. We spent one day reading and playing in the water and the next day we went to Wilmington briefly and I did some eco-printing inside because of the rain…
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My mother won the People’s Choice Award for her painting in The Great Getaway Art Show in Lumberton, NC last week. Her painting was part of the Garden Club Council display where local garden clubs were randomly assigned one of eight paintings to design a complementing arrangement. We thought that was the only contest she…
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Whee, this was better than Disney World. Seriously. Chad Alice led us through finishing prefelted needle-punched merino wool batts, then we clamped fun metal and Lexan and wood stuff to folded pieces and dyed them, and took them off, and reclamped, and dyed them, and took them off, and reclamped, and dyed them. All in…
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Before I move on with my day, let me post about this ongoing art project that began in September, 2013. Here’s what I wrote about it to send to India Flint for this project. Our family farm sits upon the site of a Native American village and mound site from around 900 years ago. In…
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First Friday at GreenHill Gallery and the City Arts Center. Local students had a stunning installation of figures made from clear packing tape – “We Have a Dream: The March on Washington Packing Tape Project.” Description from http://downtownfridays.com/listings: “African American Atelier Inc. – 200 N. Davie Street In celebration of Black History Month, the Atelier…
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A cold day everywhere, it seems. Sandy and I went to the Greenhill Winter Show. To my delight, Catherine Ellis’ woven shibori fabrics were scattered throughout the gallery. I got to see them up close! (I REALLY wanted to buy one, but one of my goals this year is to cut back on unnecessary spending.)…
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Back to work. Also back to journaling. Now I’m glad that I didn’t sell this one in the gallery. It’s a good one. More “work” on the 2014 map. This is fun. I doodle and refine, doodle and refine. It has helped me get my head just a little bit straighter too, although I am…
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