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!

working title "Briar Rose".

Lots of good stuff here this week, so let's begin!

An article from Marie-Therese Wisniowski about the history of fabric and dyes, HERE

An article over on Textile Artist with James Fox about his machine embroidery HERE

Elizabeth Barton has written a very interesting blog about learning, and discovering style, and the value of imitating other artists HERE (I haven't gone back to read the comments, but I'm sure they'll be interesting too!)



The Tafa Forum has an article about men learning to embroider in prison HERE

Here's another article (a rather good one, I think) at Art Business.com on how to price your art HERE

In this week's eye candy, there's a stunningly beautiful book sculpture at Steampunk Tendencies HERE

In this week's "discomfitting art" link (lol) Figure/Ground Communication has done an interview (pictures at the bottom) with Anne Harris HERE

Over at Big Red and Shiny there is a review of Sonia Almeida's recent show "The Event We Call Seeing" at the Simone Subal Gallery in NYC (I'm sorry I didn't link to it before the show was over - it slipped through the cracks over the holidays), but I still think it's well worth reading as the review itself feels like you're talking to a friend and it's informative and offers a fresh perspective (Note: if you mouse over the picture in the header, you will be shown other pictures you can look at and click on). That article is HERE

And then my favourite this week (I must have gone back to that article 20 times since it was posted at Colossal); the wonderfully beautiful and totally temporary sculptures of Martin Hill over HERE

Hope you've had a great week and that your weekend is even better.

See you on Monday with...?  'Til then!

Generally, when I do a figure, I sketch him in my sketch book, trace over him/her with tracing paper, use the tracing paper as a pattern, and then cut out the figure on my lutradur (or whatever substrate it is that I'm using).

But that's a fairly laborious process, and this was just a little rabbit, so I decided to draw him directly on the lutradur this time. It meant that I had to draw him twice (I screwed up the first one), but it was still much faster this way.

And then it was time to paint. First I picked my paint palette...