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…
Category: artwork
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…
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…
Recent experiments
The past few days have seen the following experiments (I’ve done others, but haven’t taken or posted photos of them yet as the USB ports on my desktop don’t work and I have to rely on the use of John’s laptop to get photos off the camera): acrylic medium transfers on fabric and on paper…
Rut kicking
One of the problems with blogging is that the subject matter is feast or famine. On one day, you have nothing but silly and trivial thoughts to share and on another, everything is a ten-page essay. For the last few days I’ve had a myriad of possible posts swirling like leaves though the windy space…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 