Saturday, October 18, 2008

Fabric on my Etsy store













I have some fabric motifs listed in my Etsy shop - check them out by clicking on "My Etsy Shop" on the top right of the blog page.

They're screenprints of some of my drawings, made with fabric ink and heat fixed so they're safe to wash. Use 'em in quilts, to make totes, or clothes, or whatever takes your fancy!

I've kept some for myself to make a skirt with, if I ever get the time. Maybe after classes finish in November...

Amazing!

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I'm still amazed that I've continued the commitment to drawing-a-day: I might not post to this blog every day, but I do find the time and energy (with the exception of a couple of weeks in February when I was sick enough to wind up in hospital) to make a drawing each and every day.
Some days I've been tempted to let it slide - tired, not in the mood, busy, other commitments, you know the litany - and make two the following day, but I've resisted the temptation. I'm afraid that if I do that, I'll break the habit. And it would be oh-so-easy to let it slide for days on end and I KNOW that I will never have the willpower to catch up if that happens! It's been a more than worthwhile exercise, in many ways: my drawing has improved with the daily practice, I'm on the alert for ideas and inspiration from a multitude of sources I probably wouldn't have noticed before, the daily drawings have provided inspiration for much of my work this year, and I have enough ideas even thus far to keep me busy for YEARS. Yep, years!

I suspect that my subconcious is a way more fetid and fertile swamp than I ever realised :)

Catching up (yet again!)

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Friday, October 17, 2008

Blogging sporadic

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Blogging will continue sporadically - I'm in the midst of Graduate Painting Exhibition mayhem. The class spent the last two days hanging our graduate show - painting is a bit of a misnomer, the subject is called Painting but we've been doing everything from painting to photography to mixed media to sculpture. It's exhausting, particularly since this is a very large group of 18 artists and there are a few tense moments with so many artistic egos! We all want it to be
perfect, of course, but compromise is the name of the game...

Like a lizard drinking

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Flat out

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Monday, October 13, 2008