Truly enjoyed collaging, painting, stamping, stenciling, and sewing this week. Realized yet again that if something doesn’t seem quite right, attempting to fix it is usually a good thing to do!
Here are the results from 2015.
Sending love
More valentines
My blogging has been a little slim – my favorite camera was with my daughter for a documentary photography class for a semester! Camera back, I’m trying to catch up with documenting projects and blog regularly.
For fun, I decided to try more valentines in the mode of last year. I’m enjoying the process. Not worrying too much about the final result. Here is the work in progress.
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| step 1: collage |
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| step 2: add paint, stencil, stamps |
a glimpse
One of the challenges of collaging is that as you build layer upon layer you need to continue, even if you cannot fully visualize where you are going, or you won’t get to an end result.
A little like life sometimes. Having the courage and faith to keep going is where we live out most of life’s moments… enjoying and savoring and straining with each step… and sometimes catching a glimpse of the finished product.
The free motion quilting here didn’t feel relaxed or free until the sixth one! But, thankfully it was mostly free flowing before the gray stitching which transforms each one into a whimsical vignette.
Serenity
Serenity. Elusive when aiming outside of your comfort zone.
An artist friend suggested just getting into the studio and doing something. Sew something. Sift through raw materials. Feel your fabric.
I’m trying to work BIGGER. And yet, the rhythm of larger scale is elusive.
So, for myself, just for now, I’m creating SMALLER. For fun. Just to use my hands, cut paper, maybe fabric, a word here, or there. Or entire dictionary pages.
And, its delightful. Had to share it simply because I have such a big smile on my face. And, tomorrow is soon enough to pick myself back up, and aim for BIG again.
