I continue to work on my Synesthesia colour studies. I used lots of thread on this one. For each colour, I also work in paint and fabric to show a range of tints, tones, shades and intensities of each colour. I went pretty dark with this colour – mmmm one of my favourites. When I […]
Read More...The Community Arts Council of Saanich Peninsula is hosting its annual ‘Small Expressions’ exhibition in the Community Arts Centre at Tulista Park, Sidney BC, March 4 – 30, Tuesdays to Sundays, 10:00 to 4:00 pm. A team of us spent 9 hours the first-day accepting work and hanging the show. One of the challenges with hanging […]
Read More...I attended a Jane Davies’ ‘Big Fat Art Workshop, Jane’s Blog. We did many ‘technique’ exercises working quickly on large sheets of inexpensive paper. It was all about layers using many different media and working quickly to stop over thinking it. A sampler recording how to block out large shapes with different edges. An exercise […]
Read More...Dorothy showed us many other methods for making our mark on fabric and paper. She also showed us many examples of what others had done in the past and what contemporary artists are currently working on. We were left to continue exploring the methods we liked. Then is was time to start thinking about how […]
Read More...“An individual stroke is an utterance of touch.” Dorothy Caldwell Dorothy is demonstrating the next Stroke Painting exercise. We taped various types of brushes onto long sticks. We dipped them into pots of different dilutions of black ink. With a large sheet of paper on the ground in front of each of us, we were […]
Read More...Dorothy Caldwell taught her ‘Human Marks’ workshop in Gloria Daly’s Duncan studio. Many of us had registered for the workshop over 18 months ago, as soon as we heard Dorothy was coming to the island. Dorothy is a gifted teacher and a great artist. Everyone was so eager to be coached by her for the […]
Read More...One of the morning exercises was to analyse different patterns and to find examples of different types of patterns to put in our Pattern Dictionaries. Elisha is working out how this pattern was made. Elisha working with a new stamp she carved. See below the resulting pattern. Charlotte’s new carved stamp produces a number of […]
Read More...In the 2nd lesson of ‘Pattern Design for Artists’ we begin exploring linear repeating patterns. After making a quick stamp to trial a design we used it to make 1 dimensional patterns. The above image shows the set up for printing as I was taught by Eleanor Hannan www.eleanorhannan.com. It is such an efficient way […]
Read More...With the conference being held in June we were in time to see a graduates’ exhibition at The University of Texas at San Antonio, in the Downtown Art Gallery. I liked William Billy George’s work. He studied at the Appalachian Centre for Crafts.I looked closely at the folded paper and saw stitched letters. I read the label. […]
Read More...The 4th post card is about the Bay of Fundy in the early 19th century.Everything ‘classical’ was all the rage.Here is the ‘stamp’ in progress. Many hours have been spent on the design of these post cards. I made mock-ups in paper (the inside of security envelopes) to check the range and distribution of values. I also use […]
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