What a coincidence – today I was reading the September issue of Harvard Business Review when the Spotlight Artist caught my eye. HBR has fairly recently started illustrating their Spotlight package with a series of artworks from an artist. I always like to look through the artworks, because they have had some very interesting [...]
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You may remember that I posted about taking photos in the rain. We did have an ulterior motive for doing so. I sent the photographs to Lark Crafts in the hope of them being accepted into the new book Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits being prepared. The original date for hearing something was [...] I don’t know where the weekends go at the moment. I think it may just be that we have too much going on in our lives right now. I certainly don’t often find the time or the muse to do anything much creative. Somehow by 5 o’clock on Sunday afternoon when all the other [...] This post could be a bit long as I’ve not been keeping up with commenting on the books I’ve been reading. There are four books that are for different reasons worth a mention. The first book on my reading list was Drawn to Stitch by Gwen Hedley. Having started doing some sketching with the [...] Amazon recently suggested to me that the book Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun by Carla Sonheim might be of interest to me. I am usually rather sceptical when the suggestions are to do with drawing, as it isn’t anything I feel particularly good at, and to date [...] I was ordering some Duck Tape (no that is not a typo!) on amazon.de to try and get a good seal when taping my screen for my screen printing class, when the suggestion that the book Art Cloth might interest me popped up. I knew about the book of course, so I followed the [...] or trying to. I suppose there are two things that are currently competing for my attention apart from my day time job. One is our intended move to Spain and the other is my trying to get more focussed on my textile art. Both are related to each other. Since our return from [...] I have decided what to do about the quilting on my hexagon spiral. I’ve collected lots of neat quotes about colours and am going to quilt them onto the quilt. It’s not something that I’ve done before so I thought I’d better get some practice in first. This was my first attempt – a [...] here is another link to an article about the Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition at the V&A. This time the article appeared on the Daily Mail website. The quilt referred to was made by a group of Girl Guides at the Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore. One of the girls involved in the making, [...] Can’t seem to stop buying more books. These are my latest two purchases. I already have one book by Jennie Rayment about creating texture by various folding techniques. After finding the table of contents and some of the photos on a web site I decided that there was enough new stuff in this book [...] |
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