I have missed my fabric and find myself caressing favorite tools and materials as I put them away. Ah, the secret life of quilters!
So, since I have a deadline looming and a commission I should be working on (and because I NEED TO WORK!!!), I played hookie from unpacking and spent a couple days working.
Did a few very small painted studies (including these two):
(clearly haven't made it out of my color rut yet--
so I've decided to embrace it)
And made some faux nuno, including this piece:
Now that I have the new process down, I'm making a felted piece for a new work--woo-hoo! Never thought I'd resent a long weekend. (Well, not really. Or . . . well, only a little. :-P )
I'll end on a note of apology: A great many people made our last days and weeks in Massachusetts memorable and smooth and uplifting and wonderful, and I really haven't mentioned that--or them individually. Everything just caught up with me at once and I had to let it go to remain sane.
I hope I did manage to thank you all in person, but if I missed you in the blur and rush please accept my apology and know I appreciated everything you did for me and for my family. You all rock and we are tremendously blessed.
4 comments:
Your studies are little jewels. Please consider doing more with them. Ma
Thanks! They're great fun and a manageable size (about 6" x 6"). I'm working on a large (45" x 45" or so) work based on the new-mown hay study and am very excited about it.
Just had to get back amid vast, flat Midwestern landscapes to get all inspired--who'd'a' thunk?!
Mat & frame them. They are nearly miniatures. If you want to - if you can bear to do it - mat your painting so that the part that shows is no larger than either 4" x 6" or 5" x 7." Then they will conform to the standards of most miniature art societies. On the other hand, who cares about conforming. Frame your 6" x 6" pieces, put a price on them, and people will love them no less.
First I have to flatten them. They're a little curly just now.
I did them to play with my watercolor pencils and because they were small things that I could do fairly quickly amid the hustle and bustle of unpacking. I didn't expect to like them so much, but now that I know I get along well with watercolor pencils I'll take the precaution of taping my edges in the future.
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