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I was a lazy girl the past couple of days and did absolutely nothing! lol

So I thought I'd catch you up on the lunchtime projects - above is the week before last's offering (Week 8) which has a spelling mistake so I'll either have to take out the stitching, or leave it as is - it's supposed to ephemera after all, and exhibit the flotsam and jetsam of life, so I'm kind of leaning towards leaving the spelling mistake.




And here is Week 9 - unfinished, which is good for a WIP Wednesday, except *ahem*, I'm meant to be working on Week 10 this week. So I guess I'd better hop to it!  (That, among other things, lol, because I've been chatting and having fun with my work chum instead of working too!)

I'll see on Friday with the links - I'm really looking forward to sharing them with you this week - some really interesting stuff! Are you enjoying my Friday links posts?

See you then!
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My plan for today was to reveal the finished product of "Birches in Spring" and get a lot of work done on "Briar Rose".  But, best laid plans and all that - because most of my weekend was spent in bed with a migraine. Augh. So this weekend was not as interesting as I had hoped.

Nevertheless, in those hours when I was upright for awhile, I managed to make some roses. In fact, ...
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There's a lot to cover today, so let's just jump right in!

Textile Artist has done a review of "The Fine Art of Crochet" HERE



Illustration Friday has done a tutorial on how to use the colour wheel HERE and also offers nine ways to run a smart creative business HERE

Altoon Sultan blogs about her transition from landscapes to smaller, abstract works HERE
(If you click on no other link, I HIGHLY recommend you click on this one.  Really interesting stuff about the "burden of content".)

Contemporary Art Daily has done an review of the work of Michaela Meise HERE "If there is a common ground to the exhibited objects – a book, furniture, ceramics – it would be the notion of the grotesque" (The "grotesque" as a literary device was something I was very interested in when I was at uni, so its use in art is also interesting to me.)

And in a meta moment, I'm linking to Art Propelled's link post of some her favourite textile artists HERE

Textile Artist has done an interview with Raija Jokinen, a really interesting figurative textile artist HERE


Over at Thought Form, they've done a well-written review of  Marianne Gagnier's paintings HERE

Arts in Bushwick does a review of an outsider artists group show called "Outside In" (on display at Life on Mars Gallery in Brooklyn through March 1st). You can read about that HERE (wish I could go and see it!)

And finally, Clive Hicks-Jensen has a guest artist post by Peter Slight, who says:

In this recent post Clive talked about the importance of negative space and placement within an image. In the comments I mentioned the illustrator George Him who I feel displays a mastery of these skills. 
and then goes on to further discuss and illustrate that HERE. Good use of negative space is something we could all learn from!

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And totally off-topic, but since you all know how much I love fairies, I couldn't resist adding this :  Icelanders are protesting the building of a road because it will disturb the elves.

No seriously! A study in 1998 showed that 54.4% of people in Iceland believe in Fairies, and another paper in 2000 showed the same belief in elves.  I should move to Iceland! Yes/no? ;)

Have a great weekend!

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A little hand stitching...



 a little paint...



It's coming along. :)

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I'm starting with this even though it's kind of the middle thing I did, just 'cuz it's so pretty. 

So let's go through it.

1.  Top left hand corner, I was painting some clouds. They dried very quickly, so I moved on to the next thing -

2. quilting some background branches and trunks,

3.  there they are on the background (which also had some abstract ground work done)

4. (bottom left hand corner) Then, because I'm still in a birches kind of mood, I laid some down. You can see I had started the hand-stitching part;

5. I added some gray paint to the plain white one on the right, so you can see how I did it; and

6. The birch trees are done (you'll see I knocked back the background leaves a bit with some cream paint) and I also  stuck in a fence. More to come on this piece, later this week.

And the REASON I was doing that, was because...
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Happy Friday!


(I don't have embroidery to show you today, so I thought I'd share a t-shirt I found that made me laugh. :D )

Here's my links post!

First up, an artist I was introduced this week, Linda Eaton-Marcille working out of Crows Nest Studio. She not only does wonderful hand embroidery in the naive style, she writes equally wonderful stories to go with them. This is her latest piece - I am giving you the link to the first part of the story as she began her stitching HERE

Over at Textile Artists, they have part two of an interview with the "Stitching and Beyond" group in Tasmania. Part Two speaks to Lauree Brown, Lijlija Armstrong, and JunHope. I especially love Lauree Brown's work, but all three artists are well worth having a look at. You can find that HERE.

Then there's part three of the same interview HERE (focusing on Marta Brysha, Sandra Champion and shoemaker [!]

Over on Artists Network there is an article called "A Painters Guide to Composition" which fiber artists may find useful too

And a fun one at Hyperallergenic "Re-Considering The Artistic Legacy of Wile E. Coyote" . It's actually quite insightful. :)

Have a great weekend. See you on Monday!



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