fall of icarus

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A4 sized quilt done for online group - this is January's - the theme heat.

life drawing

K & I went to life drawing on Tuesday. It was a scary process - not a classroom and no teacher. We started out with 2 minutes sketches and then 5 and then 10 and, finally, three 20 minute ones. My first efforts were very scratchy - I began in charcoal and quickly reverted to pencil. By the time I got to the third 20 min session we were exhausted and packed it in. We got to stand back and look at what we did when we got home and were quite pleased with our efforts.

I am already trying to work out how to translate this one to cloth.

googling and drawing in the cool of the morning

with thanks to Henry Moore and his drawing Forest Elephants

late autralia day post

spent the day having messy fun with dye and a bit of paint on cotton, gauze, paper and canvas - plus a few threads. I now have a nice stock of blues to build on patterns from the sea

heat

After the horrible heat of the last few days I am enjoying the cool weather. Ironically, now it is cooler I am working on a small quilt based on the theme 'heat'. Didn't have the energy in the last few days as I couldn't sleep... neither it seems , could the dog who is catching up on a few zzz's whilst I work. Quiet company.

the magic pudding

yesterday i used my lunch hour to visit the exhibition gallery at the State Library (NSW). They had an exhibition of huge watercolours painted by Norman Lindsay in 1959 of his characters from his childrens book The Magic Pudding. You could see from the paintings where Lindsay had drawn his outline sketch and none of the changes had been erased.

there were also marionettes and hand puppets created for a puppet show

and a short film on how the puppets were made and about the puppet show itself

i recommend a visit - I have linked the title to the relevant page on the library website - take a look

Cheers

more summer school - canvas

I also did a workshop with Maureen Hazelhurst. The thrust of Maureens workshop was putting curves into a technique that is essentially grid based - and to expand the type of stitch that can be used to acheive this. Any canvas work I have done has basically been in tent stitch. Boring to some but I like the 'flat' look that can be achieved when used with a limited palette.

It inspired me to move on and start working on Daintree Dreaming - I am slowly getting a bit done each other night.