I don't have much scheduled. My work just came back from Tennessee yesterday and is still in boxes. I need to get good documentation of one of those pieces, and I need to pick another for a donation, so those boxes will get opened soon. I've got a handful of opportunities I would like to apply for, and I am thinking about those opportunities in terms of new work. I spent all day at the computer yesterday trying to figure out how to write about the new stuff I want to make. I always find the writing to be so much harder than the making. But I think I wrote a really powerful first paragraph in a way I rarely write. I said what it is. I am excited about owning it and addressing it head on. When I have the statement done and submitted, I will post some of it here. Maybe it will be an exciting year of opportunity.
while I was gone....
in Work
for a week with my son to visit a friend, this came in the mail.
there are over 6000 little eyes in here...all without the hooks. I am just about ready to start sewing.
a little more drawing...
in Work
was done this week. I have had more than a handful of images of 1950's ladies in a folder, just waiting to come out. I thought one of these little ladies would be lovely as a deer, so that is how this came about. I like how she is looking at you, but being waited on by someone else off stage. I, of course, see all the awkwardness of a leg, the hands, the value....but I am letting that go and enjoying the process of seeing what comes.
so good...
in Inspiration
again, with the embroideries. I just love this work by Michelle Kingdom. The images are so painterly, textured and detailed. I dearly want one for my own. Her little dreamscapes are full of mystery. You can see her work on her website, she is one of Designsponge.com 18 embroidery artists to watch on instagram, and she has been featured on thisiscolossal.com.
"Some imagined future" by Michelle Kingdom.
"What is done cannot be undone" by Michelle Kingdom
"Life will divide us" by Michelle Kingdom
"Duties of gossamer" by Michelle Kingdom
a little bit of drawing...
in Work
was done this week. I would like to have a new drawing/print for my Etsy.com shop at least once a week until I reach 100 listings. I know. But it can't hurt to draw and I am curious to see what comes. This is the first!
Just wanted to mention....
in Inspiration
That I visited my friend Keren Kroul's two person exhibition at Artistry in Bloomington, Minnesota on Friday night. It is a spectacular show! Of course I love my friend's gorgeous work, but I also discovered a fabulous sculptor, Nathan Hatch.
Brilliant Absorption by Keren Kroul
Implement Landscape by Nathan Hatch
It is up until August 19...Hope you might have a chance to see it!
I am slightly obsessed...
with embroidery right now. I just found this artist, Willemien De Villiers, when googling contemporary embroidery...one of my favorite things to do when I am looking to be inspired.
Willimien De Villiers - The Mysteries
Willimien De Villiers - No Beginning, No End
Willimien De Villiers - Prayers for Atoms
She is a South African artist living in Cape Town. All of these are embroidered on found linens. And you have got to check out her website for the paintings!
beautiful embroidery....
By UK artist Alice Kettle
Alice Kettle – #1 800 7948 ed
Alice Kettle – Odyssey Detail
Alice Kettle - Timthumb
I love how painterly these images are. And they are BIG! Just lovely.