Category: art
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I’ve been fascinated with super close-up details since I was a little girl, lying face down in the grass imagining the world the way that ants or grasshoppers do. In my photography, I am drawn to the graphic lines and spaces and textures more than to a certain subject matter, but generally I love nature…
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My friend and paper mentor Susanne and I flew out to Oregon to attend the Focus on Book Arts conference in Forest Grove at Pacific University. Despite our friends’ warning about the rainy weather, it was beautiful and I didn’t have to open my umbrella once. The cooler temperatures were such a relief! Judy met…
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Getting close to the end of this tapestry. I reworked this transition from the golds/pinks to the blues/pinks several times. Much happier with it now. This is very different for me, the all-natural earthy hippie wannabe. It began as a joke – I have a lot of disdain for some of the art I see…
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Stenciling gesso onto bookboard makes both a nice raised design and a resist. My work area in Albie’s class. The bookboards above have been trimmed down and painted, and will be bound with a coptic or French stitch using the papers drying in the rear of the photos. A very wee book – I like…
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I need to take more photos, but as usual, I became entranced with what I was doing. I kept going until I absolutely could not do it anymore. Today I have to remind myself to SIT DOWN. My hands are not too bad, but my feet and back were letting me know it last night.…
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Latest progress on the Sunrise Tapestry. I could see doing a series of these from the photos I took of this one particular sunrise. But I’ll need to order or dye more purple silk. A commission that I just finished. It is a gift for a historian. I’ll write a coffee pot post tomorrow morning.
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My enthusiasm to weave this is much greater than my current ability to do it!
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I have another 40 minutes to kill before going to work, so I decided that it is time to put up or shut up about the stuff I keep repeating that I’m doing here. Here’s the prayer flag. I went in an entirely different direction than my original plan after I found a piece of…
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I signed up to join Elements Gallery, and so did Susanne. I feel very good about it. The price is certainly right and all that remains is that they get enough artists committed to sign the lease by today and that I get juried in. So, hooray! Maybe this is that opportunity that I have…
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2010 has been such a brain-busting, heart-opening, imaginative adventure for me, despite the fact that I spent a lot of it bemoaning my tendinitis and thinking more than doing. I decided to do a post about all the teachers that I have been inspired by this past year (and during a little of 2009). Susanne…
slowly she turned 