Final – Spring 2016 “Craft in America” When I started to think about what to make for this course I wanted it to fit my inner struggles going on with me right now which I believe is an emotional and physical healing process. So after reading the about the architects in the early 1900’s I fell in love with the wood work of the inside of these structures. One in particular was the “Gamble” house that the Green’s (brothers pg. 50) constructed. I believe that I was attracted to these because of a fall I had recently down a set of steps so after researching these beautiful interiors I discovered this set that was in my dreams at night I could not let the image go. I do not have access to wood materials or equipment so I started out with drawing from a photo of the “Gamble” house stairs that I found on the internet. Then from that drawing I started constructing scraps of material in the shapes of the three different landings of this staircase in the appropriate colors. I machine sewed them onto a dark background and built it up with different colored materials. There is overlay of “see through” material to represent depth. This was extremely challenging and I have been influenced by Faith Ringgold because I would like to take the scraps from it and do a patch work style around the edges. The second one came from the first one’s influence. After an anxiety attach at Christmas time I realize that some things that I thought were in the past was not. My art has been influenced by this and I have become extremely attracted to a very geometric style like Ruth Reeves on page 127. So to do this I turned to Spoonflower.com and took by “Staircase” art piece and started played with pattern. I have order a Satin finish 4 yards of this pattern to play with at my pleasure. When I was in a Plein Air competition right before Spring Break I discovered a lot about myself and one of them was my experience with nature was something that has to a stay in my life. I wrote about this in our blog, but I felt like I needed to show the art piece that came from it. I was in a big field drawing early one morning with birds singing, bugs buzzing and even the cars driving by were few and far between. I wanted to capture the sun with the beautiful shadows on a bluebonnet field and I really into the process of drawing (pastels)what I was looking at when I realized the buzzing sound around my head (which I thought were bees) were humming birds and when I turned to look at them they (about 3) all stayed like they were watching me draw over my shoulder. I honestly got eyeball to eyeball with them I starting crying right on the spot overwhelmed with the thought that this is meaning of true happiness for me. So this one will probably turn into a pattern too, but more of a tapestry of colors (like Dorothy Liebe’s pg. 167) to show the spiritual side of healing. Experimentation and growth is represented in my last art piece I was so influenced by the wool that Sheila Hicks “Grand Hieroglyph” on pg. 264 used that I wanted to try a simple form it. Now mine is not a tapestry (which I have ordered a loom and I am going to try to learn a simple form of weaving) but it is a dry form of felting. I was at my school really early on a Sunday morning when I discovered these lovely geese visiting and they were very kind to stay still long enough for me to sketch and take a few phone pictures. I went home to discover a bag of wool (that I asked my daughter for ( my grandchildren show sheep) to save for me) and with that and few scraps of wool that I had, I made this little art piece on muslin with a dry felting process.
I love love LOVE how the stairs started on the quilt, and I too loved that house, and how you repeated that pattern on spoonflower.com. The progression of influences and materials is not evident at first, but when I looked back, I can see the design. Thanks for sharing!
Final – Spring 2016 “Craft in America”
ReplyDeleteWhen I started to think about what to make for this course I wanted it to fit my inner struggles going on with me right now which I believe is an emotional and physical healing process. So after reading the about the architects in the early 1900’s I fell in love with the wood work of the inside of these structures. One in particular was the “Gamble” house that the Green’s (brothers pg. 50) constructed. I believe that I was attracted to these because of a fall I had recently down a set of steps so after researching these beautiful interiors I discovered this set that was in my dreams at night I could not let the image go. I do not have access to wood materials or equipment so I started out with drawing from a photo of the “Gamble” house stairs that I found on the internet. Then from that drawing I started constructing scraps of material in the shapes of the three different landings of this staircase in the appropriate colors. I machine sewed them onto a dark background and built it up with different colored materials. There is overlay of “see through” material to represent depth. This was extremely challenging and I have been influenced by Faith Ringgold because I would like to take the scraps from it and do a patch work style around the edges.
The second one came from the first one’s influence. After an anxiety attach at Christmas time I realize that some things that I thought were in the past was not. My art has been influenced by this and I have become extremely attracted to a very geometric style like Ruth Reeves on page 127. So to do this I turned to Spoonflower.com and took by “Staircase” art piece and started played with pattern. I have order a Satin finish 4 yards of this pattern to play with at my pleasure.
When I was in a Plein Air competition right before Spring Break I discovered a lot about myself and one of them was my experience with nature was something that has to a stay in my life. I wrote about this in our blog, but I felt like I needed to show the art piece that came from it. I was in a big field drawing early one morning with birds singing, bugs buzzing and even the cars driving by were few and far between. I wanted to capture the sun with the beautiful shadows on a bluebonnet field and I really into the process of drawing (pastels)what I was looking at when I realized the buzzing sound around my head (which I thought were bees) were humming birds and when I turned to look at them they (about 3) all stayed like they were watching me draw over my shoulder. I honestly got eyeball to eyeball with them I starting crying right on the spot overwhelmed with the thought that this is meaning of true happiness for me. So this one will probably turn into a pattern too, but more of a tapestry of colors (like Dorothy Liebe’s pg. 167) to show the spiritual side of healing.
Experimentation and growth is represented in my last art piece I was so influenced by the wool that Sheila Hicks “Grand Hieroglyph” on pg. 264 used that I wanted to try a simple form it. Now mine is not a tapestry (which I have ordered a loom and I am going to try to learn a simple form of weaving) but it is a dry form of felting. I was at my school really early on a Sunday morning when I discovered these lovely geese visiting and they were very kind to stay still long enough for me to sketch and take a few phone pictures. I went home to discover a bag of wool (that I asked my daughter for ( my grandchildren show sheep) to save for me) and with that and few scraps of wool that I had, I made this little art piece on muslin with a dry felting process.
Size of "Stairs" is 18X24
ReplyDelete4 yards of silk pattern from spoonflower
Pastel field is 12 X 16
"Visitors" felt geese is 10 X10
I love love LOVE how the stairs started on the quilt, and I too loved that house, and how you repeated that pattern on spoonflower.com. The progression of influences and materials is not evident at first, but when I looked back, I can see the design. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteKim - love all 4 pieces! Pastel is beautiful!
ReplyDeletethank you...lovely
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and healing!
ReplyDeletei love the visitors! I love the fact that even though it's fabric and flat, you still added little shadows of your geese are and trees!
ReplyDeleteSuch wonderful pieces kim! Thank you for sharing multiple pieces.
ReplyDeleteHas a nice calming effect, thank you for sharing your process
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