As requested, I'll also have detailed sketches for the other two I posted yesterday. That may happen this week. In the least before Christmas. Thank you so much for your interest and comments. Some days it motivates my rise and drives for months at a time. BTW: The title means shiny black hoof in Latin. Forgive my match of declensions and nonesuch. I have forgotten much.
As I mentioned last post, I would start working on the mock ups with a rendering closer to the final product. In other words, pull out the ruler and try not to shift back and forth. Below is where my proportion instinct lead me and I am happy. Notations for your interest are the tiny circles represent where beading will go. The triangle border will head around the complete outside of the quilt. I left those sections open so I would not have to write and rewrite measurement notations for when I begin cutting fabric. Other than that I am still holding on to making tassels and fringe around the very edge of the quilt. If it happens I'll be stunned and happy at the same time once completed. Target dates to begin are at least two to three years in the future. Why? I have other endeavors I've pledged time to and I do not want to disappoint anyone. Lord knows it may fit into one of the requests I've gotten this year, so sooner may arrive for this piece.
As requested, I'll also have detailed sketches for the other two I posted yesterday. That may happen this week. In the least before Christmas. Thank you so much for your interest and comments. Some days it motivates my rise and drives for months at a time. BTW: The title means shiny black hoof in Latin. Forgive my match of declensions and nonesuch. I have forgotten much. Dear Curious:
My friend told me that you would like to see the sketches from the early morning earlier this week. I am taking a chance as my fears linger about stolen designs and failures to copyright properly. I had planned to sit on the sketches till the actual pieces were done for however long that should take. Something about a dramatic entrance that takes root in my soul. A good surprise is good for everyone I think. So, the sketches succumbed to paper over about an hour. I had just completed looking over books on different Native American tribes. There is a handful in the library and I am grateful for it. Whatever I took notes on previously in the week finally arranged itself in my subconscious and I drew. The following is a photograph of the notes. The shading is incomplete on some of the drawings. You will no doubt figure that out. I have plans to create larger drawings per each and write out my construction and color notes. My goal is to use what I have and only that. To me that will strengthen my skills and whatever may be lacking may be made up in construction technique and execution. In other words, I'm ready for a longer stay per quilt. Timing is not an issue anymore. Beautiful execution is. Just to close on that note, I'm looking forward to that package of seed beads arriving. They'll go into the quilt drawn on the bottom left in a few asymmetrically placed bands of color. It may be ill appropriate for a bed after that point. Still the paired shapes stayed with me for days. Then I saw them substituted with bison hoof prints. Then I understood. I was still training and The Medicine Wars Project came alive to me again. I wish I still had my poster of animal prints. If I remember correctly, it ranged from marsupials to buffalo in ink on white paper. Instinct and spirit has me find these things, but I can never seem to keep them. Time and time enough. I had what I needed for the time. Someone else may have needed that knowledge just as much as I did. Good lessons become ingrained in the mind, spirit and soul. As ever, stay hungry and curious. These are two quilting designs I came up with. Above is patterned after a Christmas Cactus and Easter Lilly. Below is after Caladiums in our front yard. Someone asked a few days ago if I would post. I finally got around to it. For those of you who have no clue. They are both continuous line drawings.
New shots are posted and a few fixes on old. Finding that the inside shots get the nuances and color that the sun washes out. Yeah, I'm picky and some of the papers are not light fast and fragile. I'll figure it out. Maybe borrow a extra light or two. I shot in direct sunlight today, so that is part of the problem. It was great till I figured out what was going on. Shadow-rific. Other things to do and the day continues. chat later.
Drew for about two or three hours. Finished one and posted it in the "Drawing" section. It should be called "La pistola" because I could not seem to stop saying that the last ten minutes of finishing. Every section I finished I'd say "La pistola". I don't wanna shoot anybody and maybe just maybe I'm inspired and it ran through me like a shot gun. I'm happy after turning it over and over and over again to find orientation. I was upset at a centrally placed object. After turning it over it morphed into something else. Happiness is finding the grit.
The shot is foggy and will be retaken tomorrow hopefully. I is busy this Friday. Good news. I got asked to co-feature Constantine wares at a tupperware-like party this month. YEAH ME! Maybe I'll have some sales and good exposure is wonderful too. Money for a new sewing machine will happen by Christmas. I'm focused on a Singer Model, but will tinker away for a Viking or Janome. Thank you Lord! 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.
I , I, I can't do this, but I did. I felt like these were to sacred to me to post, but I did after being berated by a few people cause they wanted to see what I've been working on in the past 24 hours. I'm afraid the net is too public and I'm afraid the images will get swiped, stolen, copied, mass derided. Basically I'm attached to them and wanted to work them up to a larger size and more completion before showing. I think I have a good idea, but maybe to soon to be shown. Then again you may be a descendent of Winslow homer and find these trite and boring. Well, I don't have much to say to that. I seem to be in the zone integrating old sketches with new ideas. Besides that, nothing. Good day at the shop, especially the meeting. I found things that are cheaper there than at JoAnn fabrics. Purchases for July are lining up quickly. Too bad I've got car repairs first. Kinda swipes the list at the ankles. Have a good night. Ok. So I'm frustrated and kept pushing myself. I had a sore hand , then arm, then wrist, but I was patient and worked through it. I can't seemed to bask in workless Sundays, so I try to curb the habit some but not much. I worked on sketches for something that has been brewing in my mind for five to ten years now. I pulled all my surviving sketches together while I worked on new ones. The early piece are lost forever. I never photographed them and chances are I did not sign them. I know that will be a problem down the road should I make a name for myslef, but we will see. I have yet to get gallery representation and I am working on other avenues to get a show and some padding for my resume. Meanwhile I have not taken shots of what I am working on. I thought it might be worthless to you as they are 2x2 inch sketches for paintings and when I get on a roll I get a bit selfish and protective. I want to show you something substantial. But then there is the argument to show you the piece from beginning to end, which can be fun including others in the birthing process if you will. What I did post where sketches from old books I kept. Sooner or later an old sketch creeps in the memory and you need it for the next series. And thank God for that. I perused some old slides I kept before leaving the farm. It was the work I was most proud of at the time, tungsten lighting and all. I'm remembering who I am and where the drive and pain come from. Slowly though, slowly. I've been told what people know of me and are most interested in is what was then. I've noticed my lines are cleaner and more geometric. I lost the cloud and fog of the lens and the charcoal compounds that bore many of my images. I lost most if not all of my collection those years ago and I'm opting for simple clean up. I have to, I work in my bedroom. Having a true studio is a luxury. Although looking and the series I'm on, color and thick impasto may develop out of it after all. Getting back to what I am noted for, rather integrating old lesson into new is just what I need to fuel the fire. Right now I have five, make that eight series planned. Some relate to others, which is good, other are experiments that I would like to see come to fruition. Needless to say, I'll be working through the end of the year to say the least. The portrait is me in harsher emotional climates and shorter hair. It was done in 2005. The slide show is odds an end I thought you might enjoy if you liked the birds to begin with. One or two are bad shots, out of laziness I did not reshoot. I apologize for that. Either way enjoy the view! I've tried things before and I never quite got a rhythm down and stuck with it. This however, I love. Night drawing. I've been going outside almost every night this past week to draw the night sky, stars and shadows. I've come to know the curves of the tree and the dappled light between the branches as I look up from below. What is excellent is that in the night, everything is edited out. You do not have to be bowed over by texture of leaves at a distance and the pure brightness of the sun. Eventually I'll get to the clouds over the garden, but for now the moon and the night. A few days ago I had been ouside way through the day's heat change from the earth and it gets, cold. As I was coming to the last few strokes on a small pad, I ws startled by a visage of the mooon. I was excited, it was full. Usually I catch the moon intermittently during the new phase. Being full brought a casual change to the canvas and I was thrilled to have been there for moon rise.
Painting became another story and I've kept it monochromatic or local palette to keep from complication of many colors and low light to select the one I want. The small 3" by 5" sketches I am hoping will translate successfully larger. Chance are I'll have to increase the texture and modelling. I've been delving into the old journals I kept through grad school. Having started, I've settled back into archaeoastronomy with a toddler type twist. I've moved into a phase much like when Picasso and Paul Klee dropped the advanced technical drawing for a while and pursued childhood, a new venue opened up.
I discovered I keep journals for a reason. To go back. Just becuase I thought I was done with a series, doesn't mean I can not go back and revive it, transform it, breathe new life into the dead drawings. A former professor told me a story about someone like Goya or Pizarro. It was a Spanish artist is all I remember in his torment. He lost all interest and vitality in his artwork. He could find no subject. He could find no shading or paint brush to make his interest come alive in what he saw. Painting was flat, dull and gray. It was pushing pigment around on expensive canvas. This artist grabbed an arm full of paper, a pen and ink. He locked himself in a hotel room in the most secluded part of Italy. He told no one he'd return. If I remember correctly, he drew nothing but oranges, bowls, spoons. Without pretense of garash color or flashy framing, he used simple line and gesture. He stayed there for over 3 months drawing the everyday till his artistic instinct came back. Having a librarian's mind I multitask almost everything. So life , though slow, seems to go at mock speeds sometimes. Considering the aforementioned, the journals are two birds in the hand. |
N.A. JonesVisual Artist; Independent Researcher; Librarian; Cook; Amateur Astronomer; Gardener - the hard way, Writer; Explorer Archives
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