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…
Category: work
Random collection of oddities
I have a whole passel of things which, individually, aren’t blog entries but are probably worthy of jotting down: This is our first real blast of winter in a month or so. High winds, -10 Celsius (before windchill). Not liking it. Please go away, weather…. At least it’s sunny today. Cold, but sunny. It’s election…
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…
Quick review: Fabric Art Journals by Pam Sussman and Handmade Paper Collage by Dawn Ackerman
I’m not a great buyer of quilting or fibre arts books, mainly because they’re rather expensive and generally don’t tell me anything I couldn’t figure out for myself or get from the QuiltArt group online. I do have a subscription to Quilting Arts Magazine which is worth it’s weight in gold (and it’s rather heavy…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 