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Grease Alley, an industrial backwater neighborhood in a blade-runner/fifth-element genre. These shops back onto a trash and old parts-strewn gully, where the junk skiff comes by to pick up broken components, industrial leftovers, and the occasional "borrowed" part.
From the kids bedroom.
This work by Anette Snarby is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
For my next series of sampling I'm using unusual surfaces for stitch.
This is a foil crisp packet which has been ironed ( between two sheets of paper) and then overpainted with shimmering gold interference paint.
It was whilst I was waiting for paint to dry on another project that I spied an abandoned canvas in my workroom.
I coated it with tissue paper, acrylic paint and gesso, and then added various paint effects on top.
After sanding it with a sanding block I added tea stains, buttons and dyed lace.
This canvas will hold my collection of "glitzy" necklaces and is destined for my bedroom.
It is a work in progress as I have lots more memorabilia to add.
Caithness and Orkney are rich in Neolithic sites and the thing that struck me whilst looking at the rings and burial chambers is that these people were the ultimate mark makers.
One site, Maeshowe, which is the finest chambered tomb in North West Europe is just mind blowing. It is dated to around 5,000 years old and so it is older than the pyramids and Stonehenge.
The awesome thing about it is that later settlers, the Vikings, have covered the walls with runes which date from 1100, so you have evidence of two cultures of mark makers in one place.
This piece which is made from modelling paste on to hand made paper, with the addition of beach detritus, is my first tentative attempt at making marks.
This photo shows the painting area of my studio. It's pretty compact, actually. Fortunately for me, I don't work large. I really couldn't in this space. The rafters of my basement studio are just seven feet above the concrete floor.
Yes, I do keep my paints organized. It's not so much that I'm such a neat-freak, but it sure saves time when working. For the past three or so years I've been using Chroma's Atelier Interactive Acrylics. They've worked very well with the way I think and work.
This is a closer look at the device that is on the other end of the system - it has a receiver radio and translates the signals from the buttons into something that the conputer recognizes as a usb keyboard. It is made using hardware and software from the VUSB toolkit.
it currently uses two arduinos as a sort of brute-force solution to a timing issue where both the keyboard software and the radio software expect to be the 300-pound gorilla. I talked to someone at MFNY this past weekend who might have a solution for this problem!
I sat for two and a half hours last night, painting the watercolour paper with water and rubbing it with my finger.
This had two results: it broke up the surface of the paper, so that the paint will sink in, and it gave a distressed effect to the whole piece.
Also, my finger was sore!
A mock up using newspaper. I thought that I could individualise these boxes by using photographs of the intended recipients.
the chair was only there on Fairfax Avenue for his one photo. The next
day and subsequently it was gone !
Continuing thoughts about identity and a sense of self.
I looked at a mummy in Leeds museum at the weekend and it struck me that until you read the information attached to the artifact you are unable to attach a meaning to what you are seeing.... sex, age, status etc.
This is a sample piece using brown paper, stitch and gesso, and by unravelling part of the stitch I hope to suggest that the very stiff pose, which could mean a rather disciplined person, is in fact an illusion.
The piece is about 2 inches high.
A friend requested a flask, so I thought I'd try a week or two of throwing only bottle shapes and see what ideas emerge. I'm really happy with this first batch!
First doll I've made in months. It's also my first doll using somebody else's pattern. Couldn't resist adapting it though, so she's going to be pregnant!
Work in progress from our weekend on the Sail Club island during a camp for the kids. I thought the sketch was too unfinished like this, but then the end result is kind of over worked. Should I have quitted here anyway?
This shows machine embroidery on to a sandwich of chiffon, knitting and a cotton base.
The wool fibres of the knitted piece have been trapped behind the chiffon, but when I burn away the chiffon with a heat gun, some of the fibres will spring back.
Acrylic on Board
Work in Progress
Background still needs work and the odd bit of tweaking. Almost there
I promise it's straight, this is the best photo I could get before the wind blew it down.
Still need to add borders, I'm debating doing pieced ones but I'm not sure if I have any patience left in me.
Blogged with a bit more info: craftblog.com.au/2009/11/22/my-current-quilty-wip/
Blogged about finishing the quilt here: craftblog.com.au/2009/12/01/declans-quilt-is-finished/
I'm working on some collage/assemblage/mixed media stuff. I haven't done that for a while.
That is my hand reflected in the fish mirror.