Studio: More Studies Using Old Linens

Today I spent the morning playing with two fabric collages. With my guiding statement, “friends are chosen family,” in mind, I decided to focus on figures who (I think) were friends of Maw Maw Keck, my grandmother. It is hard for me to use my collection of old linens for “studies”, so I [...]

Sampling of my work

Since there are a lot of new visitors to my blog, I decided to give you a peek at what my artwork is like. 

Photogravure on silk, sewn, appliqued.

Photogravure on silk and cotton, applique, antique linens

Screenprinting with dyes, machine embroidery on antique linen.  (detail on right)

Screenprinting with Dye and Thiox, applique, machine embroidery

Design*Sponge

Hey Everybody,
I heard back from Grace Bonney today, (creator of design*sponge, the best design blog ever!) and she is going to mention my blog on her site tomorrow (July 27, 2007). So, now the pressure is on to explain who I am and what I’m doing to people who don’t know me and [...]

Guiding Statements

These are some guiding statements for me to think about when I am working on my art.  This is to help me narrow my focus and eliminate the ideas that are not working for me.

Friends are chosen family, but are also forgotten family.  When people pass away and leave behind photos of friends and family, [...]

Studio: Collages with fabrics

I had a very frustrating day in the studio. I’ve been very uninspired this week and working in the studio today, took every ounce of energy I had. Since I have a pretty tight schedule, a day off was not an option for me. I decided to be kind to myself, and just work intuitively [...]

Please help me with my homework!

Hey everybody,
One of the things I have to do for my class is to do one of these “assignments” on the Learning to Love You More website. The task I decided to do is to ask my family to describe what I do. So, those of you who actually read this stuff. [...]

Studio: Let’s try something on the wall.

My latest studio venture was a continuation of playing with the linens. With mid-terms coming up next week, I’m feeling the pressure of making something more “tangible”, so I decided to start a linen “collage” wall piece. After cleaning and rearranging my studio so that I had a large wall space to work [...]

Daily Photo Collages

Every day for the last 4 weeks I have made a small collage using xeroxes of my old family photographs. (My father’s side of the family.) The point of this is to keep my brain thinking creatively every single day. (Also, it is a class requirement.  Not the collages, but to do “something” creative every [...]

Studio: Playing with old fabrics

Another suggestion to get myself thinking 3-D instead of 2-D was to play around with my collection of old fabrics and linens.  Rolling them stacking them, taking pictures, etc.  This post will be a visual diary of that experience.  Comments are below each picture.

I starting by putting everything I had to work with on the [...]

Home Simple Home

I’m craving SIMPLICITY in my life.  I want to simplify the way I live and the way I think creatively.  I’ve been really trying to figure out where my thesis is going with my family portraits and what I am trying to say.   My goal this summer is to get closer to figuring out [...]