Drawing and Sewing

Posted on | May 30, 2007 |

I’ve been drawing the past week. Every chance I get I have my little (4″ x 6″) sketchbook and a pen with me. If I hit a spot where I don’t know what to do next, I find something in the studio to sketch. I’m using the Danny Gregory books as my inspiration - everything in life is worth recording in some way. Slow down and see the world. Take moments to practice drawing. In just the past week, i’ve noticed that things are getting easier for me to “see”. I look at my studio differently. I see the compositions within the everyday art supplies.

So here are three of my drawings:

To the left is a picture of my door to my studio. I have some purses on it that I plan to alter. I’ve not done it yet, but they’re there. LOL

To the right is a picture of one of my supply shelves. It’s in the middle, right in front of the desk, and it’s the area where I store my acrylic medium and other things.

To the left here is a photo of my kitchen counter with our two coffeemakers, a bag of additional coffe, a carafe, and some other miscellaneous things.

I have also been involved in a monthly Quilt Journal challenge, but you have not heard anything about it from me for a while. I have gotten, well, behind. April’s quilt was finally completed today. I thought it had been completed yesterday, but after staring at it and mentioning it in yesterday’s post, I knew there was something still wrong with it.

See, back in April my month was mostly about painting. I had painted this fabric that was beige with some sort of white design printed in it. I cannot remember how I got this fabric, but I had it and it wasn’t speaking to me as it was. So, what is an artist to do, but to alter it! I took out my paints and started to paint. As I painted this fabric, a landscape seemed to come out of it. it reminded me of an Arizona Sunset. (So many things do these days, don’t they?) But I felt it needed more definition, so I added in some black paint. Well, the black paint started to look more like an animal. As a result, I decided it was going to be my April quilt. I used FMe to outline the “animal” and then I aded some fibers to give it a mane and a tail. But my error was adding buttons for eyes and a nose. You see, I had actually seen this “animal” as a horse. Adding the eye and the nose made it look more like a dog. Now this is not so bad, but not what I wanted for my quilt.

So, today, after staring at the quilt all morning, I ended up removing the buttons and I am much happier with this quilt now. Now I have one more day to work on May…. And I have to put together a card for my anniversary, which is tomorrow. I better stop blogging and get creating!

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