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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 11:20

So after a considerable amount of thinking, I have finally made two fairly large goals for my work for 2010 (if not the foreseeable future!).

With my paintings I aim to bring to light some of the inner workings of my imagination and lift back this veiled curtain of reality to entertain and enthrall and beg my viewer to ask "What if?" 

Using primarily fabrics I resolve to use fiber as a medium to recreate some of my dreams and fantasies while further exploring a skill passed through my family for generations.

I aim to document the journey in better detail now that my housing situation is under control. I am excited to participate in such a journey and I encourage you to join me. I use twitter for frequent updates; Facebook for exclusive behind-the-scenes updates, and my newsletter for the larger once-a-month update that really is just an overview of what I've been up to! 

I encourage all forms of participation and insight into the creative process. I hope you can join me on an interesting journey through the daily life and (not so!) exciting times of a contemporary (workaholic) artist. Watch while I balance my art career, my other two jobs, my sports, my dysautonomia, and my spirituality. 

 

Paris is all done!

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Thursday, 04 March 2010 23:28

 

Paris

 

 

I'm not sure if you've been following these updates on Facebook, but for those of you who haven't, this piece has been started and thrown out 3 times before I was able to make create something I was satisfied with. 

I got the inspiration for this piece when I was stranded in Detroit a few weeks ago. Walking mindlessly through the airport killing ungodly amounts of time, I noticed that the people who photograph for postcards are really quite talented. They are able to make even the ugliest of cities (like Detroit) look quite lovely and welcoming. 

Suddenly, standing in Hudson News, I got the idea to create postcards for cities out of fabric. The series is still to be named, and ANOTHER surprise exclusive to newsletter subscribers... whoever comes up with the name that I decide to use will be awarded a set of handmade notecards! 

Anyway! I started this piece with no idea of how it was going to go. In fact, I even asked someone what their favourite city was because I was creatively blocked and looking for input! 

This piece is made with a variety of media. The water and the sky are both hand painted cotton using Pebeo Setacolor.

The Pont Neuf bridge is cut out of fabric, details added with charcoal, painted with acrylic paints and a sponge, and then attached to a layer of wax paper underneath so when you touch the bridge it feels kind of rough and hard.

The lights (which I took a considerable amount of artistic license on) are created out of black ribbon that was fused and stitched to the background with small tiles of venetian glass stitched to the top with gold thread. 

The word "Paris" was drawn on fabric, fused, stitched, coloured with markers then embroidered. 

And then....the tower. The tower was drawn on printer-friendly cotton fabric sheets, painted with acrylic and Setacolor. Hand stitched, hand embellished, and then fused to the background and appliqued.