slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: art
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I realized that I’m never going to get started again on my artwork until I clean up and reorganize the giganto mess I made in the studio and the happy room before I went to Art and Soul. It’s like a maniac went through everything and tossed it around. Well. I set up a folding…
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I thought that I might share a little about my creative process in doing the mini tapestries. It’s so simple that it won’t take long. Reading Living the Creative Life and The Artist’s Way made me think about this, and I figure that it’s worth sharing. This is my current workspace in the Happy Room,…
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“By the Sea: Wave”; series of tapestry artist trading cards. Woven on cardboard loom. Linen warp, cotton weft. 3.5 x 2.5 inches. “By the Sea: Tidal Pools”; series of tapestry artist trading cards, woven for trading at Art & Soul in early May. I drew on memories of Sunset Beach and Tubbs Inlet for these…
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Here are the first two small tapestries of a series of four. This is “Earth” and “Fire.” Guess what the other two will be! I took a piece of the cardboard box that I used for my tapestry bag and decided to work that part of the design in different colors. The loom is just…
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The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here! Hopefully I’ll be able to get quotes from The Jerk out of my head soon. I’ve only seen it, oh, probably two dozen times. But it feels apt because I got my shipment from Joann’s today. It was a slam damn gorgeous day too, and…
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First there was the photo, taken at Healing Ground in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. Then there was the idea and the cartoon… Then there was a long period of dithering because I couldn’t decide between two approaches. One was to make the “path” blue, the maze white, and sew on buttons or smooth worn pieces…
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cotton yarn, cardboard, brown paper, shipping label, ink I jammed up my printer playing with this brown paper and I think that I killed it! But I do like the effect it made on the words. The “prettier” side is actually the back of the card. It is supposed to have my contact information on…
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Hot damn, I finally remembered to buy new rechargeable batteries yesterday after sucking the absolute last bit of use out of my old ones, and I finally remembered to recharge them tonight, so I could upload my photos from last week. Because, you see, I finished the tapestry bag on Sunday afternoon. The closure is…
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Dimensions: 6″ wide on short sides, 10″ wide on long sides, 6.25″ tall. Linen warp, wool weft. The weft is mostly discarded wool given to me by other weavers or weaving teachers. Much of it is the product of beginning dyers, as there are many spots where the wool was tied too tightly in the…
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Here is the cover of Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot magazine (the official publication of the Handweavers Guild of America) from Summer 1998, when it published an article about John and his work. At the end of this post, you’ll find links to the article, which I scanned, and other links that I found about John…
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