Thank you all for not chiding me over the misspellings in my last post….I can blame it on a keyboard that has gone wonky even after I check spelling, my wrist brushes the touch pad and WHISH letters and whole sentences disappear.
Left over Dye Embroidery Thread Colors
Dyed threads with left over dye stored in the fridge after snow dyeing.
It resulted in interesting shades. The more pastel threads are
white mercerized cotton,which I thought would take more dye.
Wrong again…it was the thread with a sheen that took the dye and produced
the richest dark colors.
Radiant Orchid Artist Trading Cards
TEXT-ure was a really good prompt for me. I had to go outside the norm of what you would expect from a text prompt. Black and white text or varying the size of text, spelling out words, etc just wasn’t doing it for me. I needed to create texture with text.
Inspired by Cynthia St. Charles’ blog with her daily postcards, I decided to go through a stack of magazines to see what would float my boat. I found advertisements with white text and brilliant colors that I liked.
I tore through the text so it wasn’t readable and arranged it on a card to create movement. Good, but not great as far as creating texture. So I got out my sample paints from the paint store of the Pantone color of the year Radiant Orchid. By painting over the collage, the torn edges absorbed the paint. Now we’re cooking! I really liked the texture created.
Then I accented some of the text and edges with white. and painted over a few of the white letters to bring them forward. Here you can see 4 of the cards, they are all different but still a series of original little art works.
Check out the other great art on Off The Wall Friday.
Online Data tracking
This is definitely art and quilt related but is also about everything we do online.
Many years ago I owned a small artist’s co-op. Two of the members were University professors, one of whom was the internet guru. This was when the internet was brand new and it wasn’t something that everyone was expected to have in their homes. She had written some professional articles for publication about this new phenomenon. I will never forget how impassioned she was that we all needed to be very careful about this wolf in sheep’s clothing. Everything we ever write or put on the web will remain for ever and ever. Of course most of us poo-poohed what she said.
Well, guess who was right? I’m more savvy than most about my security and protection of information. But lets face it, if you want to be connected you are giving up any expectation of privacy. I try hard to only put online or in email something I wouldn’t be embarrassed about or too stressed if it comes up in the future to bite me in the butt. I have a Facebook account and a LinkedIn account but they have security enabled. When either of these programs wants to know more and more personal information for my profile I ignore them. Think…they are selling my information….have you noticed that if you post about something like being on a diet you will then have ads on your FB page about diet remedies? Or if you look at Craftsy or online schools that’s the ads you get on all your pages?
One of my pet peeves is people who go on and on about personal trials and tribulations on their Facebook page or in online groups. Especially people/artists who are trying to make a living online. If I was a gallerist or a promoter for exhibits, I would run in the opposite direction from someone who is always whining (at least that is my interpretation of the ‘poor me’ posts). So would a prospective employer of any kind. Think people…others CHECK these things to make a decision on whether or not you are honest and trustworthy. I’ve heard people say they want others online to feel like they know them as friends. Sometimes friends have too much information.
So, if anyone has ever wondered why I don’t share more information on my blog…few pictures of friends and family, very little about my personal life outside art…this is the reason why. I love you all and love it when you send me emails. I try hard to answer everyone personally but not always on the blog.
I hope you all have a wonderful day. The sun is shining here today and I will take advantage of it to get some rays.
TAO The Art Odyssey Ad
The Art Odyssey website is here where you can read about the other artists in this year’s studio tour.
The magazine will have a bio and photo of each artist and directions to the studios.
This is my ad that will be in the TAO magazine for after the tour.
Time is getting short so I’m working hard to see everything is in order.
JP Dawes Contemporary Artist 