Friday 15 May 2020
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Thanks,
Arja
Friday 8 May 2020
Completed Artist Trading Cards, Art Quilt Top Pieced and COVID-19 Art.
I had fun creating my quilted ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) and have mailed one to Quebec, one to Alberta and one went to The Netherlands. I gave one to my sister, who is re-awakening her creative endeavors while being off work and I kept one for myself.
Piecing my art quilt top is done and it now hangs on my design wall as I decide how to embellish it with stitching, yarn and other design features.
The dark area in the middle of the sky is a tall tree. The tree trunk stills needs to be added which I had planned to stitch in but there is also the option of appliqueing a trunk in with fabric or couching some yarn in as a trunk. I'm not sure which method will be used yet.
As I was picking fabric for this piece, I found some that had woodland creatures on it that are the right dimensions and colouring for this piece and in order to give it some life, I might just include a few of these creatures into the composition as little surprises that one would discover as they come close to the work.
As it turns out, this week my art day was hijacked by my husband who asked me to make some signs for our garden centre business that received the OK from the Premier to open up to the public. Although we are open, physical distancing still has to be observed so guess what the signs were for. A special thank you to my sister and brother-in-law who helped me get this done in the allotted time. If you visit the garden centre, check out the signs. We took some creative license liberties with them.
Piecing my art quilt top is done and it now hangs on my design wall as I decide how to embellish it with stitching, yarn and other design features.
The dark area in the middle of the sky is a tall tree. The tree trunk stills needs to be added which I had planned to stitch in but there is also the option of appliqueing a trunk in with fabric or couching some yarn in as a trunk. I'm not sure which method will be used yet.
As I was picking fabric for this piece, I found some that had woodland creatures on it that are the right dimensions and colouring for this piece and in order to give it some life, I might just include a few of these creatures into the composition as little surprises that one would discover as they come close to the work.
As it turns out, this week my art day was hijacked by my husband who asked me to make some signs for our garden centre business that received the OK from the Premier to open up to the public. Although we are open, physical distancing still has to be observed so guess what the signs were for. A special thank you to my sister and brother-in-law who helped me get this done in the allotted time. If you visit the garden centre, check out the signs. We took some creative license liberties with them.
Friday 1 May 2020
Artist Trading Cards
I recently subscribed to a magazine called UPPERCASE. I was introduced to it by my sister in law. It's a high quality magazine produced in Canada for the creative and curious. It is colourful, fun and full of stories of creative people and their work. There are articles about printers, stitchers, painters, crafters, makers, cake bakers, jewelry makers, collectors and the list continues. I love this magazine.
This month we could sign up to trade ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) with someone else. So I signed up. The cards have to be 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size, the typical artist trading card size and can be made with any medium but just have to be flat enough to mail. We have to make at least 5: One to mail to the person we are trading with, one to trade with a new friend made via UPPERCASE circle an online forum for the magazine, one to exchange with a local artist or creative friend, one to send to the editor of UPPERCASE and one to keep. These have to be mailed before May 15, 2020.
I decided to make them from fabric (no surprise). I expect the one coming to me will be drawn or painted. This week I went through some of my canoe trip photos and chose some that I thought I could reproduce with fabric.
Below are some sketches and the couple that I have completed so far.
This month we could sign up to trade ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) with someone else. So I signed up. The cards have to be 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size, the typical artist trading card size and can be made with any medium but just have to be flat enough to mail. We have to make at least 5: One to mail to the person we are trading with, one to trade with a new friend made via UPPERCASE circle an online forum for the magazine, one to exchange with a local artist or creative friend, one to send to the editor of UPPERCASE and one to keep. These have to be mailed before May 15, 2020.
I decided to make them from fabric (no surprise). I expect the one coming to me will be drawn or painted. This week I went through some of my canoe trip photos and chose some that I thought I could reproduce with fabric.
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