three weeks on I have finally finished my sideways branch sample
never part of my plan but the suggestion was a good one and the idea took hold
I'm so glad it did
the ragged jagged nature of these branches pleases me greatly; stitched in a different colour they could be seen as cracks in ice
I'm drawn to anything with that kind of ambiguity... a thing that could be this or that or with a nudge go off in a completely different direction
another suggestion was to stitch curving lines in silver behind the branches to represent ripples on the surface of the river
I took a piece of silver thread and dropped it on top of the branches, intending to play around with it to see what I might do - instead, I immediately say a way of stitching the swirling current on the river's surface
and as I turned the paper to get a better look at that I noticed how effective the stitched branches were in a vertical orientation
this and that, around and about
the stuff of creativity that spins me round and round
one thing leading to another
all of it tying together
the current of creativity flowing merrily along
where is it taking you?
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I do not know, at present. All very up in the air, so it is!
A friend and I were having a discussion last week about the 'artist eye' and how we see things differently than the non-artistic. She falls into the latter but her youngest daughter is an incredible artist and my friend thinks I am as well (boy, do I have her fooled!!). At any rate, the discussion centered around the fact that her daughter 'sees' colours in her mind, but not shapes - until she starts to paint. I, on the other hand, am inspired by a photograph or a colouring page and work more in realism (within the confines of the fabric medium). You see possibilities in the world around you and then take that further with your experimental stitching. Three different approaches.
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