Showing posts with label studio organization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studio organization. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2011

Rolling Up My Sleeves

Signs of spring are blossoming everywhere. Including on the grounds outside the old church where the 'Consider the Lilies' show is put on annually by eleven local fibre artists.
I found a lovely painted silk charmeuse jacket there, made by Irm Houle. It has other butterflies, too, and a huge one spanning the entire back.
I have also been to the BC Museum to see 'The Other Emily: Redefining Emily Carr', an exhibit where artist Manon Elder collaborated with curator Kathryn Bridge, to show Emily in her youth, before she became widely recognized. Manon's paintings of Carr are her novel interpretations based on historical photographs and these were interspersed with Carr's paintings, journals and sketchbooks. I came away feeling uplifted for having entered Carr's interesting and fruitful world. I have always been drawn to her paintings and once did a pastel rendition of one of them as a teenager. I was also intrigued that in a few of Manon's paintings of Carr, she used liquid indigo on the canvas. This close up was part of a sleeve in one of the paintings: And another sleeve - this one from a Victorian style child's dress from around the same time period as Emily's childhood. I like the triangles, which also lined the hem of the skirt.

And - I have cleared my studio area so I have space to work again.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Machine Time

My bags are packed ready for the Mark Making with Machine course today,
and I've chosen red for the colour I will be working with. I found this fiery fabric in a thrift shop yesterday and it reminds me of a flaming sunrise - signalling new beginnings and creative fire. As well as gathering supplies ready, I've been cleaning and organizing my small studio so there is space for new things to unfold.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Last Day of October

I have been untangling, sorting and putting away threads, as well as gathering some for the upcoming textile art class I will be starting in a week. Maybe that's why the forest floor gifted me with a gold star :)
Not to mention all the other visual gifts of colour and form!

Today I will carve these with my family. Happy Halloween!