Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Fort Frederica
A few images taken at Fort Frederica located along the Frederica River on St. Simons Island, Georgia. In spite of the wind, it was a beautiful day to be out.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Blossoms
When I first noticed this tree, the morning sun was shining on it and it appeared as if it was covered in yellow blossoms.
Beside the pine tree is this tree which is still barren of leaves but had the most interesting pods hanging all over it (a sweetgum tree).
Beside the pine tree is this tree which is still barren of leaves but had the most interesting pods hanging all over it (a sweetgum tree).
Saturday, March 20, 2010
March Spiral
Trying to photograph these spirals is not fun. For March I used five shades of yellow/green, Delica beads for the spiral part and seed beads for the core.Thursday, March 11, 2010
Green Line No. 1
My most recent page for the bjp-2010. It really isn't about anything, just colors I wanted to play with.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
A Look Back
A few weeks ago I had the good fortune of finding Elizabeth Barton's blog "Art and Quilts, Cogitations Thereon" http://www.elizabethbarton.blogspot.com/ Her posting of January 22nd really got me wondering if there was any sort of common theme in my work.
During my high school years (the 1960's), I had a wonderful art teacher, Ruth Sparks, and my favorite technique at the time was drawing with pen and ink --- but, it wasn't line drawing, it was dots -- thousands of tiny little dots (considering what I do now, no surprise there) in different colored inks that made up the painting. Unfortunately, I no longer have any of them.
During the 1970's I took up needlepoint and did lots of projects but my favorite was this piece of color blending.
And then the 1980's arrived and Kaffe Fassett's influence on the knitting world. For this sweater I used 56 different colors of mohair yarn. If you look closely you will see a gold stitch that I knitted in the night Brian Boitano won his Olympic gold medal in figure skating.
And then this sweater in which I changed the method of adding color. One thread remaining the same throughout the sweater and then I worked a color change on every row with the second thread (45 colors used).
And on to the 90's when I took up quilting. For this piece I dyed a series of yellows and oranges which I then cut up into one inch squares and reassembled.
I also took my first tentative steps into the world of beading. This is a loom woven piece.
After years of working with one inch squares (still my favorite) I did move up to two inch squares. I worked on many styles of quilts but my personal favorites had color blending.
The 2000's saw Robin Atkins http://www.beadlust.blogspot.com/ enter my life with the start of the Bead Journal Project. I joined in to learn bead embroidery and here is one of my first attempts at this new technique.
The 2010's finds me still blending colors.
Whether I'm knitting, quilting or beading - apparently it isn't the medium that matters, but putting color against color is what I find fascinating and have spent my life doing. It all seems so obvious now. Thank you Elizabeth Barton.
During my high school years (the 1960's), I had a wonderful art teacher, Ruth Sparks, and my favorite technique at the time was drawing with pen and ink --- but, it wasn't line drawing, it was dots -- thousands of tiny little dots (considering what I do now, no surprise there) in different colored inks that made up the painting. Unfortunately, I no longer have any of them.
During the 1970's I took up needlepoint and did lots of projects but my favorite was this piece of color blending.
And then the 1980's arrived and Kaffe Fassett's influence on the knitting world. For this sweater I used 56 different colors of mohair yarn. If you look closely you will see a gold stitch that I knitted in the night Brian Boitano won his Olympic gold medal in figure skating.
And then this sweater in which I changed the method of adding color. One thread remaining the same throughout the sweater and then I worked a color change on every row with the second thread (45 colors used).
And on to the 90's when I took up quilting. For this piece I dyed a series of yellows and oranges which I then cut up into one inch squares and reassembled.
I also took my first tentative steps into the world of beading. This is a loom woven piece.
After years of working with one inch squares (still my favorite) I did move up to two inch squares. I worked on many styles of quilts but my personal favorites had color blending.
The 2000's saw Robin Atkins http://www.beadlust.blogspot.com/ enter my life with the start of the Bead Journal Project. I joined in to learn bead embroidery and here is one of my first attempts at this new technique.
The 2010's finds me still blending colors.
Whether I'm knitting, quilting or beading - apparently it isn't the medium that matters, but putting color against color is what I find fascinating and have spent my life doing. It all seems so obvious now. Thank you Elizabeth Barton.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
BJP-2010 - Stone Page 3
Color Play 02212010
Sewing in all the color change ends sure takes time but I'm nearly there. Next fall I will donate this hat to a charity. (and the kid sister's name is not Charity)
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