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First up. Laurent Lavendar's moon photos. I'm pretty sure every one in the Western World has seen Laurent Lavendar's moon photos by now (lol); but there are some new ones! You can check those out HERE

Also at This Colossal, I saw the COOLEST thing. A 3-D PEN!!! So, you can draw sculpture, or whatever else you want! Check out the video HERE and then you can click over to their Kickstarter campaign and fund them if you so choose. I personally think this needs to be in the world! :)

Over at Ancora Crafts, Catherine did a post of five tutorials she would like to try. Since I want to try 3 out of the 5 myself, I thought you might like to have a look. HERE

And finally, over at Textile Artist, they're interviewing Willy Schut. This was an especially interesting interview to me because the kind of work she does is what I've been thinking about the last couple of months.

I still want to do my narrative work (that children's book is still in my head!); but for my "real" work, I've been dreaming of something that's very much like what Willy Schut does - only with more colour. Sort of Stephanie Redfern meets Deidre Adams. (And the only reason I mention Stephanie Redfern is because when I sent my "secret" piece in for the call for entry, the person I submitted to acknowledged receipt and said "It reminds me of Stephanie Redfern" whom I immediately googled as I wasn't familiar with her work. Wonderful stuff! Quite a compliment, although I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing in terms of my submission.)

Anyway, after you're one clicking on Ms.'s Redfern and Adams links, check out the interview with Willy Schut HERE

(Unrelated, I have a cousin named Willy. She was very cool, and I really looked up to her. :D)

Have a great weekend! Finished Skull piece on Monday! :)

So, I hadn’t quite yet decided whether I wanted to stitch the pattern on my skull by hand or by machine.

I did a machine outline in the colours I wanted to use (as you can see above), but once I had done that, my decision was made. Hand-stitched it was! So...

When I left you last, we had a little paper skull pattern, but it was blank. Now, I've drawn a more detailed pattern on it.

And these are the candidates for my stitching. Machine or hand? Time will tell!

Meanwhile, the background has had some paper flowers added to it (all petals made up of individually cut little pits of paper)...

And now, they've had their first layer of stitching.

See you on Wednesday with more!

Kit

So, this week's link post is a bit of a mash-up. :)

During my time away, if I came across something that I thought you might like, I dropped it into a draft post (i.e., this post) and left it. So some of these links are "stale dated" and you've more than likely seen them.

And then I stopped dropping them because I stopped reading online due to my schedule. And then a couple of weeks later, I thought "but then I'll have nothing for my links post". lol Anyway - here's some links. LOL

The gorilla above is from photos.com Photos.com are Getty images that you can a: buy on a variety of substrates in a variety of sizes, and b: download and use for personal, non-commercial use. How cool is that? There are THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of images, perfect for inspiration for artists!

Over at Inspiration Green, Cayce Savaglia has incredible thread painting works, HERE

This is an art video - with an unusual subject. I really think you should check it out. ;) HERE

Over at Textile Artist they`re doing an interview with Adinka Tellegen, who does the most wonderfully realistic textile art paintings. Extremely inspirational for me, particularly - but I hope you`ll enjoy her work too, HERE

At Textile Artist again, they're doing an interview with one of my favourite textile artists, Petra Van der Steen who,with her husband, make stunning art. Check that out, HERE

Here's a overview of Aurafil threads and how to read the labels HERE

An article in The Independent (a UK newspaper) about 'The Gentle Art of Quilting' (lol) HERE

Over at the Surface Design Blog, they talked about an awesome initiative by CARPA (Craft Advanced Research Projects Agency) formed in response to DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (which is so. very.cool. Anyway, here's a post about some of the things they made. They're AWESOME. HERE

Amazing wood sculptures HERE:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (better known as MoMA) offers short video "courses" on various artists and movements, and also close up slides of the works HERE

The Smithsonian Magazine's 11th Annual Photo Contest finalists are posted HERE and in a fun twist, you can (still) vote for who you think should win.

And you've probably ALL seen Ron Issac's work because I have seen this original post cross-posted, like, EVERYWHERE from Facebook to blogs to online magazines to Tumblr, etc. But if, by some chance, you haven't seen the post, This Colossal did a post about his work HERE (and they really are worth seeing).

Easter Egg decorating! Okay, it's really late, but these are still worth looking at - artist Piotr Bockenheim carves goose eggs (no really!) with beautiful results, HERE

And last but not least, SAQA's 25th Anniversary Trunk Show Exhibit is online HERE

Phew! Have a great weekend!

See you Monday. :)

... there was paper.

I decided that one of the small projects I'd like to make this year is something in the 6 x 6 size. And I thought I'd show it to you from beginning to end.

Happy spring! (FINALLY.)

I've been a busy beaver the last month! Unfortunately, most of it, I can't show you, so let's pretend it never happened and get back to our regularly scheduled program, yes?

However, as I was saying above, Spring finally arrived here in Southern Ontario, and as I have done last fall and the previous winter, I thought I'd share our walk with our sweet boy (that would be Tyler the Wonder Dog), yesterday.

The lake was an incredible colour. More...

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