I’m about to send out my first email newsletter to those on my mailing list. It’s been a slow slog up a steep learning curve (as everything techie is for me!) while designing and writing it but I’m pleased with the result.
I plan to only send out a newsletter four times a year.
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Archive for August, 2009
Newsletter launch
August 25, 2009A new piece takes shape
August 11, 2009Keeping this blog has helped me gain some insight into my own creative process in unexpected ways. For instance, I’ve often thought about taking pictures of the development of a piece but never had the discipline to carry it out. This blog has helped inspire me to do it!
This new piece, a continuation of the Roots of Rhythm series, was inspired by some of the luscious luminous greens, gray-greens and other pastel silks that I recently dyed. It’s a very different palette for me so it’s taken a while to explore and understand the relationships between these colors-i.e. how will this color look next to that color. It’s a quiet palette. I think of the phrase “sotto voce” when I’m working.
I started with a piece of green cotton for the base and couched on a variegated yarn that I love. I then began fusing on interior cell shapes cut from a beautiful piece of silk charmeuse I dyed:
Roots of Rhythm VI in process 1
Decisions had to be made. Should I fill all the cells or leave some solid green? I stared at it for many days and finally made the choice to fill them all.
Roots of Rhythm VI in process 2
Over the past several weeks I’ve free cut and fused the inner cellular shapes from a palette I struggled to keep “quiet” but also have some “rhythm”:
Roots of Rhythm VI in process 3
It’s now sitting on my design wall awaiting clarity about stitching color and pattern and which direction to take with the strip of green on the right…
