Just bead it...

04/16/2012

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So last night I didn't want to waste the modeling paste/black paint concoction that I created..so I quickly painted on two scraps of bristol board.  I wasn't sure what would happen to these...I just didn't want to waste materials.  I did try to make the scribbles look like hair...then I went to bed.

Today I pulled one of these pieces out of my sketchbook and...well, it became the beginnings of CED #107.  I decided to go with my Micron pen for this piece, creating my shading with stippling.

Then I came home from school, and after a nap it was time to come work on this piece.  So I made a quick trip to Michael's, packed up a little zebra bag and headed out to the pool to take advantage of the later sunset and the amazing weather.  I knew I needed to start beading, getting back to my textiles roots.  So, needle threaded, felt cut into flowing tendrils...I started to bead.  Stitch by stitch, bead by bead, enjoying the rhythm of my needle going through the felt and placing each bead individually.

What have I gotten myself into?!  It is very tedious work...but I really love it.

So...after a break to run, eat dinner and work on the yearbook...I think that's all I have in me for this evening.  Will finish this piece up tomorrow, and start #108...anyway, enjoy the slideshow!                  
Please note:  I really wanted to be super cheesy (typical me, right) and put the pics below to a slideshow with 'Beat It' in the background...but my 'DJ'  ('Johnny Nice'...aka, 'the husband') is working on a paper to submit to a conference...so...no music.  Sigh.
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Picking up where I left off.

01/15/2012

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Sunday...so much more enjoyable when you know you have another day off work the next day!  So today...packed up some paints and msc. art materials and headed to Jessie's for an afternoon of art.  We were both using watercolors to create our figurative works for the next ANE show...great minds think alike!  I worked on my Creative Every Day piece for day #15, revisited an old sketch that I found, and finished the hair on the two ladies that I started to paint last night.  

...but the most significant part of the day...for me...I picked up a needle and thread and did some beading.

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I tried to remember the last time I beaded...stitched...sadly, I think it was in May of 2009 for my graduate show.  I love this type of work, beading, stitching, embellishing... I felt like I was kind of on to something when I was creating the work for my graduate show...but I just...stopped.  

Now, I could make up excuses.  I was busy with graduation.  I was busy packing for Japan.  I was trying to search for jobs in Florida.  I was busy  with the move to Florida.  I was busy starting over at a new school teaching a new age group.  And all of that is true.  I was busy.  I have managed to reconnect with my art in terms of putting paint on canvas and marks on paper...but I didn't dare pick up a needle and thread.  But today, I did.  Thank you Jessie and Sofia.  If you guys had not been working on Sofia's veil I would have never picked up that needle and thread. Jessie had gathered and attached the veil to the comb, and hand stitched all of the lace to the sheer fabric.  My contribution?  Completely covering the comb with small white pearl seed beads, sewn one at a time like I love...covering where the veil and comb are attached.   A hour of beading those little pearls on the top of the veil...I am back.  I remember. 

Looking forward to seeing where this leads...

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