A gazillion ideas for what to do next have rushed through my mind the last 2 weeks. When I couldn't settle on any one thing I decided to return to my roots and work with creating texture by couching yarn....
cotton, cheese cloth, couched yarn
wasn't feeling it...I thought about writing on cloth but wasn't up to clearing off any tables. So after piddling
this is what piddling looks like...applique and painting
around, I thought I would return to pulling a palette together around the shroud like fabric. (I've longed to do something with the Shroud of Tourin for some time now, but the focal piece here reminds me of fossils)
various stages of adding and removing pieces
I resisted using a colour wheel, would like to go through the process more intuitively
In pulling fabric, I found the Iron King...this face grew out of seeing the artist, Willie Cole, years ago on tv when he was in his iron phase...I think currently he is in a shoe phase. I was struck by the his facial features...regal and well defined. I did an outline in thread as play...but when I saw it tonight I thought I'd try to work with him in a similar way as The Mid-wife.
Several things came home with me...a basting project, gonna try Sharon Schamber's method for basting; more applique, and more embellishments for The Mid-wife. If the freezing rains come, which are suppose to start around 4:00am, actually come, I'll have something here at home to work on.
I love the colors you have chosen for the third piece. I too work intuitively and love it. You keep on working on this and that until you find the piece that speaks to you. I'm just glad to know I am not the only one who skips around from project to project. I admire those who do one piece at a time, but I think I have a problem with ADD, and anxiety.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carol. I am more apt to work this way between projects. It is a feeling like I am not going to have enough time to do all that I want to do so just do something.
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