Since I’m still machine-less, I’ll post about the piece stalled on my design wall.
Here’s the sketch I started with:
the spaces between VI sketch
I extended the design (in my head) to make it a square and decided to use a palette of grays, blue, greens and reddish purple. I also constructed it so the “between” space is flatter and the other parts are raised slightly 3-D by using two more layers of batting. It gives it more of a sculpted look which I’m liking!
My usually wonderfully dependable sewing machine has come alive but not in a good way. A few days ago it started this alarming behavior of continuing to sew after I’d taken my foot off the pedal. Yikes!
The only way I can stop it is to raise the presser foot. Sometimes that calms it down for a bit but after a few more stops and starts it begins sewing on it’s own again!
This Janome 6500 Professional is a dream to free motion stitch on. It comes with a bazillion embroidery options which I’ll never use.
But it’s usually a fast, never tiring work horse.
I’ll take it tomorrow to the local sewing shop where I bought it for a spa treatment/repair. Hopefully it’ll come home to me happy.
Recent comments left on my last post about microscopic inspiration have led me to think more about the different types (that I know of) of microscopic images and how they influence how I design my artwork.An optical microscope is the one we’re all most familiar with from high school biology. A thin slice of something is put on a slide and you get a 2D view of it like this:
stem cell through an optical microsope
What REALLY gets me excited and my brain churning are the images created by scanning electron microscopes (SEM) like this:
SEM image of a stem cell
I can imagine climbing around in there (if I were really really tiny)! It never ceases to amaze me that this whole world not only exists but that we’re all MADE of it!
But I realize that when I envision a design for a new piece, I’m thinking of the “scene” as a 2D optical microscopic view. Maybe someday I’ll want to figure out how to create sculptural pieces that look more like a 3D SEM view…
