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I was initally excited about stitching up this lady. Now I am mad at her. Perhaps it was the changes I made? Maybe I shouldn't have given her cleavage, or changed her head covering into hair? Maybe I need to shut up and just keep stitching until she looks nice.
Underneath all those paper scraps are my angry, stressed-out words.
Made for Dawn Sokol's Art Journal Stimulus Project. (www.dblogala.com/)
I have now stitched two sheets of Polish newspaper in a random grid pattern. After stitching I rubbed the paper for a while to shrink it and to break down the surface. This means that it will accept paint more readily.
Work in progress. Phase 2 the background, still not what I want.
After this, it became several different things, like a waterfall of some kind, that is, it was meant as lavender, but my family asked if it was a waterfall or a highway... so - hurray for acrylic paint - don't fuzz, just start over!
No. This was not modeled after the artist's balding dome :)
This is a double chambered whistling vessel, a bottle within a bottle that includes a whistle structure beneath the mouth and beak areas. Wheel thrown and altered stoneware with several hand built pieces added, it stand approximately 12" tall and 16" wide.
The character is an intentional reflection and combination of ancient cultural pieces that function using vessels connected by a tube that allows the passage of air from one vessel to the other and plays the whistle.
getting ready to tie in another thread & work the 4th pass, then the beaded band will be rolled together and woven into a round rope
some beads for another project have started sneaking onto my work tray (pretty pink porcelain donut)
BUT now i'm going to crochet, I think I will finish my green scarf today. I don't feel any real urgency to finish this beadwork, just enjoying the process, very zen.
From the kids bedroom.
This work by Anette Snarby is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
A series of thumbnail photos showing the work in progress of "MakaiLynn" done in Conte Crayon and NuPastels
The start of a new project.
There is a process which is inevitable.
This is:
The sorting of the threads.
The cleaning of the sewing machine.
The winding of the bobbins.
The clearing of the work table.
And finally, the thorough washing of the spectacles!
A very rare day alone, which I am setting aside for stitching and gardening. More of the former I hope.
possible submission to Lucy May Schofield's BABL project; another book in the she said/I said series
Preparing the canvas - at last. Months of research have led up to this moment. I'm almost scared to start
I started on Amber a week ago and just picked her back up. You can see where I've already ripped out part of her head and am starting over. As always, the dark colors aren't photographing very well.
I've been working steadily on my next exhibition piece which is entitled "Brexit - the first lie"
The background fabric is a piece of distressed black denim and I'm adding slits to this to denote the cracks in society caused by the result of the referendum.
These slits are backed with fragments of old paper which I machined over, coloured and varnished.
They will be eventually "papered over"
I've had an utterly unproductive day but don't particularly care - Hannah back at school, Emily at a friend's house for the INSET day and Paul in the office meant I had the house to myself for the first time in too long. A bit of admin, a bit of online browsing, tonight some sewing.
I previously made a full sized mushroom and I am now trying out ideas for miniature versions.
These have to be simplified so that the small scale isn't swamped by too much detail.
Machine embroidery samples on chiffon seem to have a life of their own and never seem to be just where you left them.
One way of ensuring they stay put is to mount them temporarily on to mount board using double sided tape.