Sketching today, to capture some spontaneity. My last couple of pieces have seemed very ‘forced’, so I wanted to work quickly today. I’m also back at work after being on holiday over Christmas and New Year, so I need to speed up my mornings!#365challengepostcards
More butterfly lino cuts, one on silk organza. Collage, hand dyed silk, and recycled sari silk, watercolour paper, hand stitch. Wish I hadn’t printed all the butterflies smack-bang in the middle of the paper; makes composition tricky … but that is what this challenge is all about. Learning, practice, flexing my creative muscles. “To practice … More January 2, 2022
I cut a lino block yesterday, as I needed to make some birthday cards for January. I had 2022 very much on my mind, and decided butterflies were a perfect metaphor for the new year: that we all come out of our cocoons soon, a new start, new life. So the lino prints became my … More January 1, 2022
Off to a false start earlier in 2021, I’m hoping to follow through on a personal challenge to make a postcard-sized piece of art, or sample, every day. To provide a little accountability, I’ve put my first ever posts on Instagram! I need you to demand to see my daily art. Please feel free to … More 2022 Adventure Starts …
A reconnaissance of my garden for inspiration, and it came in great cascades with the palm tree in our front garden. Inspiring textures galore: I’ve started doing a couple of short courses in the last weeks: Inspired by Nature – exploring Mixed Media with Tara Axford through Fibre Arts Take Two (my first assignment was … More Palm Textures
Oh what fun! Making tiny books … Made from paper eco-dying scraps, and now awaiting further embroidery. A project that fits in a pencil case for waiting-room duty.
I was lucky enough to get to the Gold Coast for a few days in May. Of course, drawing, painting and making were on the agenda! Precious time to devote to ‘arting’. The shells fascinated me, and soon I was off on an adventure, to capture the essence of the scallop shells in various ways. … More Gold Coast May 2021
How does this artist select, apply and alter their chosen materials? Overview Cas Holmes is an UK artist who exhibits, teaches and runs projects throughout the world, and in collaboration with other artists. The statement on her website: “Paint dye, layer and stitch are combined with discarded cloth, paper and found materials to create unique … More Cas Holmes
I needed to research using a soldering iron to further my TRANSLUCENCE investigations. What a boon to find Margaret Beal’s work! I purchased her New Ideas in Fusing Fabric: Creative cutting, bonding and mark-making with the soldering iron (2013) published by Batsford, one of their wonderful series of fabric covered textile art books. After an … More New Ideas in Fusing Fabric by Margaret Beal
Brief Develop a series of three stitched pieces showing: a sense of repetition, variety of scale and a placement design. Piece #1 Piece #2 Piece #3 Choosing Imagery The stitched plastic piece from Exercise 2.3 intrigued me: the serendipitous discovery that the straight lines took on curved edges when stitched into this medium and seemed … More Assignment
Kathryn Kerr 