CED #143 in the window sill...
Wow, another busy day. We sure made a ton of art this year at IMS! More about the end of the year madness on my teaching blog...this here...this is my sacred spot for my art. Well, sacred might be a stretch, how about designated? That will do.I completed my CED #143 earlier today, still working with the same theme, same color scheme...but I started to do a little doodle-magic-craziness when I was sketching the hair. I like the contrast of a controlled, fairly tightly rendered face with chaotic, quickly sketched hair. Might explore this some more...
...kind of like a visual journal at this point...
I started to think about my self-portrait for this month...not sure if I am going to go with a pencil sketch like the ones I have been completing each day...I did buy rectangular canvas yesterday that I thought about using. Again, one obstacle here is myself. All of my other portraits are 11x14. For the particular pose that I am thinking of using, I really need a longer, horizontal format...more elongated that the 11x14 will allow. Only problem is...me. My obsession for things fitting together within a series...I know that I limit myself by doing this, but it is difficult to allow myself to move away from this aesthetic...so, not sure what I am going to do.
However, I will note that I never did re-draw those first two CEDs for this month. I left'em 5x7 and went forward with the 8x10-sized drawings. Now...do I switch up the size on my self-portraits...guess we will wait and see. And I did take a little time to head to the pool for the last of the light to complete two 10-minute blue sketches...I neglected those yesterday.
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.
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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