Actually I was incredibly productive yesterday as I also started to trim back my patchwork in prep for the backing and packing to go in and on, so I can eventually call it a full blown quilt - this needlework marathon has sofar taken two or is it three years to get this far. Gawd actually I think it's more like four - talk about waiting - but I'm pretty sure I can still count on one hand how many years it's been since we were unceremoniously dumped from the Quilt'n Club, Clovelly chapter. This in itself is quite a feat and I can't say I'm not a teency bit chuffed to at least have one expulsion on my record having been a hopelessly boring wall-flower at school.
And quite frankly it's a wonder those green stiched swatches haven't grown matching lichens in the mean time, stuck up in the cupboard in a brown paper bag for so long it assumed an adour reminicent of something pulled from an octagenarian cat lady's house.
But yes, to get to the point, yesterday I finally sat down and as the gesso'd bowls dried out by the window and carefully snipped myself a carpet of cotton confetti out of the dag ends and daggy fibres of the(roughly) queen size patchwork - I have metres and days to go yet, but it's a start.
Monday, 13 August 2007
Waiting Waiting Waiting
Waiting seems to take up a lot of my time lately, while I'm waiting though - that's waiting for Optus to connect me to the internet at home so I can access this site more frequently and under less time constraints and waiting for my bank account to heal itself while it waits for the Tax Office to deliver relief in the form of a substanial refund cheque, and pay for my next 6 weeks of art lessons, I have been keeping my fingers busy dabbling in things creative. I even took some photos over the weekend to prove this but have yet to upload, download and transfer them to this site - it will happen of course - you just have to wait.
I've tried another coat of oils in the meantime and now my burgandy canvas has a little more colour on it - namely yellows and reds, and the rutted surface I made has meant the blended colours are quite interesting, though I'm not a hundred percent sure I like the effect, I mean it's okay but can I work with it? - Well until something more inspiring fires my right brain I think I am going to practise painting clouds on it just to see if I can - again we will have to wait and see .
The paper mache bowls have had another two coats of gesso all up - carpet survived this time which is a plus, though my shirt did not and I'm currently trying to sand one back to a totally smooth surface but not having a lot of luck here. I think I need something with batteries, 'orbital' in the title and 'dental' in the small print.
I've tried another coat of oils in the meantime and now my burgandy canvas has a little more colour on it - namely yellows and reds, and the rutted surface I made has meant the blended colours are quite interesting, though I'm not a hundred percent sure I like the effect, I mean it's okay but can I work with it? - Well until something more inspiring fires my right brain I think I am going to practise painting clouds on it just to see if I can - again we will have to wait and see .
The paper mache bowls have had another two coats of gesso all up - carpet survived this time which is a plus, though my shirt did not and I'm currently trying to sand one back to a totally smooth surface but not having a lot of luck here. I think I need something with batteries, 'orbital' in the title and 'dental' in the small print.
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