After my fabric painting adventure, I’m back at the design wall again. Right now I’m working on several pieces, as is my wont. Typically, I have half a dozen on the go at a time, in various stages. I find it helpful to work this way as I can move from a piece that has…
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Painting summer
One of the things I’ve often found to be a great remedy for artistic blockage is fabric painting and dyeing. Painting more so than dyeing, truth to tell. Having completely depleted my hand-painted fabric supply over the past few months, I decided to have a go at some skies and oceans. Normally I paint outside,…
Orchidistry
Over the past couple of years I’ve been growing orchids again. Anyone who has engaged in the cultivation of these wee beasties knows that the conditions required for growth can be almost as assorted as the plants themselves. Growing (or rather, keeping them alive and in leaf) them is actually fairly easy. Getting them to…
Back from the islands
We’ve just returned from a sojourn on Exploits Islands and it proved to be an interesting trip on many fronts. To start with, though, a few black and white photos I took while there. I found myself shooting in black and white quite a bit and it occurred to me afterwards that I’m grasping to…
Not quite molten
The most recent pair of socks is still on the needles. Lava Flow (in pdf, by Sockbug) is a quick and easy pattern that I chose because I needed to try out my new Brittany birch knitting needles on a fine sock yarn and I’ve never really been able to conquer Confetti (until now). I…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 