I’ve been working on a couple of fabric books, trying to hammer out the content both in terms of text and images. Not much point in making a book if you have no content! Having completed that planning stage for three books, I’m now started in on actually constructing and creating them. Today’s exercise included…
Author: VickyTH
athlete * powerlifter * photographer * gardener *
On the design wall today…
I’ve been working on a couple of fabric books, trying to hammer out the content both in terms of text and images. Not much point in making a book if you have no content! Having completed that planning stage for three books, I’m now started in on actually constructing and creating them. Today’s exercise included…
Polestar Addict
A couple of years ago, Mom received two dayplanners for Christmas. Not wanting to return them, she kept one and passed the other along to me. It was a Polestar Business Calendar, but a business calendar with real panache (Canadian, too!). I’m not one for dayplanners that have your entire life mapped out for you…
Originality
As far as I can make out, there are two basic ways in which an artist’s work can become unoriginal; by repeating others and repeating oneself. It’s a tricky thing, originality, because ideas aren’t borne in vacuums and artists rarely execute one lone piece depicting an idea. Most of us grab a hodge-podge of ideas…
Election Eve comment
Just before we fell asleep, the following conversation transpired: Me: You going to stay up for the election results? John: When do they start? Me: 10 EST, so 11:30 here. John: Nope. Me staying up won’t changed anything, anyway. Me: True, and the full results will be there in the morning. John: Yeah, it’ll be…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 