Raven King Mockups. Consider them copyrighted for the meanwhile. A little "c" in a circle and a comment goes a long way. I've got the interfacing to start and am tinkering with elements of machine stitched reverse applique depending on the panel. Questioning in my mind whether to hand quilt with thick fibers in places. I love some of the fancy end threads of knitting. Something with sparkle for the skies.
Sun Block August 2012. The design was a matter of effectively using scraps and recycling the waste a second time if need be. This is one of 16. I had the urge to go for projects other than what has been pressing me for the past four or five months. After working the purse design that had me flubbed for two years, I'm a little wore out. I could not come up with a design concept in the deadline time suggested by the buyer. I kept recycling other peoples attempts at different sizes. I got a clue and new freedom with designing a messenger style carrier. It helps to do all the fabric work and quilting to make the items stand out versus some of the plain janes out there. Customize. customize. customize. The quilt will size close to a king unless I split the block count and do two on point. Nah, a king and an even rolling quilted design will be fine. The four squares in the middle are earth and rain. The rays surrounding during storm and sunny days. The corners the deep dark of the cosmos. Granted each block will be different fabric using scraps and all, but this is the best interpretation I can give for now. After completing it was like seeing a Mayan sun, if I remember my sources correctly. I had two small photo sessions today for the purses in order to make a presentation for gettin into a gallery and a few retail establishments. I think I am through all of my wares made to date and wish I had money to pay for a accessories photographer. Though I've seen my competition on Etsy.com, my other goal, and I may not have a problem. Having access to a gardened backyard for a backdrop is excellent, along with all the little dodads and happenstance of green. Below is part of the deep green series. I'll check Etsy's protocall again this weekend to get up and running in a month. Hopefully it won't cost that much. $.20 each I think for four months? Winging positive. Finished the Raven King mock ups and I will come to a handle on the title of the adventure sooner than later. Something that leaves an impression on the mind visually besides a black bird with a crown. And that ain't to bad, just need to kick it up a notch for other members of the viewing public.
22 mini sketches in all and more t come. I have stopped resolving the storyline in words and am resolving the transitions in picture and in small clues. Eventually for the filming I'll have to have some fill pictures, but the imagination can piece some of the action together. I was resolved to making the sketches successful for quilting panels, so the imagery had to be somewhat iconic, if not powerfully static. Create a presence in it position and not suggest to much outside of itself. Though one could imagine into it. It took about a hour and a half to get things pieced together. I've pursued the task at least three time before now and got hampered with the storyline falling off or being ill prepared to drawing something I have not before. Stick figuring is not a full option that I want to take advantage of, I'd rather not give up and search for the image on Bing or Google images and make modifications. I pulled five sketch books together, got the pieces for each and made the connections, then the pistons started firing and I remembered the nuance and the follow through. I didn't want to stop. When I start in on the finished drawings is when I'll post photographs. I'm so attached to the mockups I am not ready to let them go out for public viewing. I still have the need to resolve the writing end, which may delve more into prose. Writing this week hopefully for sure with The Medicine Wars included. the most recent reading was well received. Looking forward to the next. The latest is complete an photographed. You can find it under the "Drawing" tab. It is titled "Sante Fe Trail by Half Moon". It'll serve as a working title, unless I get struck by something else. The shot is still out of focus, but it'll be a placeholder till I find the tripod. More work filled in as well to round out the latest achievements. Enjoy.
Needless to say I tried. I even had a backup plan of what to do if not just sleep , eat and watch Netflicks. I relaxed though and it seems overdrive or instinct took over and I saw through obvious and hidden problems. Then I began to work. The last four days have been elusive but pursuant of a backlog of mental imagery. I started to have breakthroughs again so this was born. I should tell you how my epiphanies arise and how the dark night of the soul is carried away but lightning bearers in the brain. It's embarrassing, but honestly I haven't got the guts to try to explain. Let's just say it is overwhelming, sudden, most definitely not brought on my anything but rest and laying still. Then the storm and shadows coalesce, the light gets brighter and mental images form while thinking through the problem in an open unhampered mental space.
The form on the bottom is from the trade blankets I frequently mention. It is an adjustment to the original called "The Sante Fe Trail". My gut has me in abeyance about the Iroquois Confederacy symbol. I want to get it worked out in fabric before I use it in drawing. It has a curve based on a turtle. It'll be an applique till I get the measurements for piecework calculated. For now I am just leaving it alone. I was excited on Sunday and needed to set things up to work on, so She was born and I couldn't help but work on her for a few hours. It drew me out and tired me. I was so excited bed was about at 2 a.m. I've been pushing through lately and finding my calling is not quite what I thought it would be. The click or switch over in the mind from lightheartedness to a seriousness that lingers then takes presence in the mind in such a dominant way, that ever placement is serious business. And you wonder briefly if you should have followed and established pattern or convention. If you should have not ventured away into the non-objective and you cling to patterning to give the piece resolve. It is back and forth for me and I'm ready to walk away into my own genre of balancing acts to finish. I think and almost feel I am ready to walk away from the conventional even if I do not get a big name and paycheck. I need to see what will come out of these hands. I need to learn my methods of reconstructing and re-purposing. Works on paper is one thing which is now for me. I need more of the seriousness. Weight. I need to paint. Two, three years out for a show at that rate. If it wasn't rest I needed, what was it? A break in the clouds/routine? Am I ready for my life to be 100% art related. Faintly it is. it is. Maybe I am playing catch up.
Not much to say today and that usually mean five paragraphs of things I did not anticipate on sharing. Either way, I'll try to be brief. The weather is keeping me in. I am scared I think to go out. Even my bottom lip is telling me that I am not drinking enough water. It is peeling. Happy for kool-aid today. I spent a pretty penny on that indulgence. As that is all I drink including tea and lemonade, it do not leave much room for error when you run out of water flavoring all together. But I have it now and am happy. Sipping and downing mango peach blend.
Sewed a little today and I may follow up the rest of the night with midnight quilting. I t would be nice to finish to day or tomorrow. It is a small piece. And a frame maybe. hmm. I'll try to keep it simple and look for frames another month when I don't feel so tight with a pocket book. I'll be making tons of fish this weekend for sure. Editing has me up to 2500 word of intentional crafting. I another section to edit before I begin writing again. I am hoping it will flow. It seem long and psychologically involved wit the characters. My next door neighbor is waiting with baited breath for the action. I don't know what to say. I started to think the book will be too long at this rate. But I figured out how to increase the speed. Still I want to craft something well and form a niche. Not a quick Maeve Binchy or Robert Ludlum read. You know their styles and format after one read I assume. Either way, my next door neighbor will have to wait to I write in the drug cartel. I have not figured it all out yet, but it will build a bridge to the next book. I would like to learn the craft of a book, a novel. I could take a class at The Writer's Garret should I come across the funds. As it is, I'm taking a blind stab at it not following formulae, which may break me in the end. Soon as I get through all these monthly errands and weekly obligations... and heat. maybe I'll be able to focus more on writing. A little a day though is good. I've been editing before bed and trying to carve a path to the computer so I get it in the next day, before it becomes impossible to read my notes Ack. Write for fun not profit... that'll keep me grounded. Problem solved |
N.A. JonesVisual Artist; Independent Researcher; Librarian; Cook; Amateur Astronomer; Gardener - the hard way, Writer; Explorer Archives
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