Category: art
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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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I should be binding a book or stitching on my scroll right now, or at least laying down in the dark with an ice pack on my face since I woke up with a vicious headache and a sinus infection. But I’m doing better, about to wash out my head pipes with a neti pot,…
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As much as I realized that I need to work on my ceramics class, I knew that it would be dumb to build a scroll box or stand without even beginning to make the scroll, so I devoted yesterday to dyeing with the broomsedge I’d collected. I made two dyepots for comparison. One was with…
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September was a wonderfully busy month. The first half was consumed by the planning and anticipation of seeing my relatives at our family reunion and my mother’s 90th birthday party. My aunt and first cousin came from Colorado to stay with my mother for ten days, during which time the bottom fell out (flooding) over…
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I can’t tell you just how freeing it has been to my spirit to not worry about making art for sale any more. I’ve definitely had some physical challenges, but they are nothing compared to the mental roadblocks I run into every time I start selling my work on a regular basis. I always think…
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Tonight is the last night I’ll be at home for a while, and Sandy is at a friend’s house playing a game. I’m listening to the rain and enjoying the quiet. Tomorrow afternoon, Sandy and I will go to Missy’s house on Lake Orange, where we’ll relax and play a little while. Then Sandy will…
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Preparing the rhododendron leaves while our fabrics and yarn skeins soaked in a mordant bath with alum. We only used the older leaves, not the new, sticky shoots and new leaves. The breeze felt great but it kept blowing out the gas stoves. The rhododendron leaf dyepot: We simmered the leaves for about an hour…
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Dede ponders the answer to a question. I couldn’t wait for the India Flint workshop so I signed up for a workshop with Dede Styles at Cloth Fiber Workshop on Saturday. I’m so glad that I did. She gave us a great lesson in identifying local wild dye plants, with information about when to harvest…
slowly she turned 