art and stuff
Posted: Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
I am still going to the art group and figure drawing, last week at art group we were told to bring veggies to paint but I had this beautiful rhubarb leaf in my garden so I took that as I love the colours when leaves change, I didn鈥檛 do it justice but I tried and had fun trying,
This week we did our own thing and I took a photo of Harris which I like very much and I have made a start but have not done any more at home yet, the photo was taken from the bus and that's why the horizon is tilted (and that's my story and I am sticking to it)
The figure drawing ~ well 2 weeks ago the tutor had pinned up some fabric and I drew the fabric instead of the figure,
Then last week and this week we had the same model in the same pose so we could spend more time on our drawing, I finished the figure about as well as I could so for the last half hour I put some tone in the background instead of the white paper ~ bad move, one of the other students paints out mistakes with white paint so I thought I鈥檇 do that with the background but I still think I should have left well alone,
2 more Harris tweed cushions, the first is the view of the Clisham mountain from my old home on Scalpay
and the second is another view towards Tarbert from Scalpay, (does anyone else see a whale instead of an island in the centre? :o)
my friends beautiful Orchid,
sorry no sunsets this week,
as usual have a great weekend,
This week we did our own thing and I took a photo of Harris which I like very much and I have made a start but have not done any more at home yet, the photo was taken from the bus and that's why the horizon is tilted (and that's my story and I am sticking to it)
The figure drawing ~ well 2 weeks ago the tutor had pinned up some fabric and I drew the fabric instead of the figure,
Then last week and this week we had the same model in the same pose so we could spend more time on our drawing, I finished the figure about as well as I could so for the last half hour I put some tone in the background instead of the white paper ~ bad move, one of the other students paints out mistakes with white paint so I thought I鈥檇 do that with the background but I still think I should have left well alone,
2 more Harris tweed cushions, the first is the view of the Clisham mountain from my old home on Scalpay
and the second is another view towards Tarbert from Scalpay, (does anyone else see a whale instead of an island in the centre? :o)
my friends beautiful Orchid,
sorry no sunsets this week,
as usual have a great weekend,
Comments
That rhubarb leaf (the real one) looks as if it's been quilted, would that not be a good subject for you? Love the orchid, I've got a couple of them and they are spectacular but so easy to grow!
Jill from EK
Jill, stitching the rhubarb leaf is definately preferable to me and I might play with it in the long winter hours but I am trying to learn more about painting just now, I love the orchid too,
island threads from lewis
So many beautiful things on your blog today. Your drawing of the draped fabric looks very good and the cushions are gorgeous. Yep, I see the whale too!
Julie Mackinder from Lincolnshire
The rhubarb leaf would make a gorgeous Kaffe Fassett style tapestry cushion cover... Are you familiar with the work of Alison Watt, IT? (for those who aren't, she went from painting the figure against material, to painting only the material)
Flying Cat from Alison Watt fan
Good attempt at the rhubarb leaf but with shading you could have raised it off the paper and given it a 3D dimension.
Fir Chlis from In the allotment
love the cushions especially the whale:)
ambermoggie from UK
You're right, FC, it would be spectacular. There are designs along those lines with a single huge flower etc. But I saw it initially as quilted, painted silk, too.
Jill from EK
thanks for supportive comments all, FC no I am not familiar with the work of Alison Watt but thanks for the surname, you see the week the tutor put the fabric up was because there was a tv prog on Alison and she told us to watch it if we could, I don't have tv so couldn't then I couldn't remember Alison's last name to do a search ~ so thanks now I can, (I meant to post that drawing and details of the prog that week but time run out on me) yes the leaf is very KF ~ will have to have a play in photoshop......now I can see it in blues and purples....Jill what about felted...embellished....embroidered and beaded,
island threads from lewis
fc I did a search for AW last night and my her work is BIG, funny I keep saying to the tutor that I want to work bigger it must be the fabric connection all those large quilts, really like AW's work must be amazing in the real but not tactile I still prefer fabric, I guess us textile artists should paint our work then the art world would see it as art but it is so untactile then,
island threads from lewis
As long as people like you do the things you do IT, there's a small glimmer of hope that some fabric work can become 'art' not 'just' craft!
Flying Cat from straddling the Great Divide
FC, but painting used to be considered more of a craft in the past, with long apprenticeships and training, and working usually to commission without the impetus of self-expression that drives art today. I suppose textile art suffers from its association with more mundane activities such as practised by myself...
Jill from EK
Thanks FC and Jill, the art v. craft is a continuing topic on several of the textiles lists and groups I belong too, Jill don't put down what you do. It is the attitude many people have that textile equates to practical, also some people mistake technique for art so they think that using a new technique means better art when it does not, I create both craft i.e. my cushions and art i.e. my Dad鈥檚 Amaryllis large wall hanging, I also like to experiment with ways of using materials, test out new materials and try different techniques all these things are the equivalent of the fine art painters sketch book and working drawings, they are not finished art work. I have had several people (some textile artists) ask me why I did Dad's Amaryllis as a quilt and why didn't I do it on canvas, I didn't want to do it on canvas but I am left feeling it would have been seen more as art if I had, canvas is fabric but fabric that has been stretched to look like a board so I could ask 'why don't painters use board?' (yes I know some do but no one questions a painter for making fabric look like board) sorry I've gone on a bit you can see that this is something that occupies me.
island threads from lewis
Hi it has been a long time and I see you are awfully and artfully busy! Wonderful Painting and Sketching, and I love the Harris Tweed Cussions! Have a great summer, your place out in the sea looks almost cosy now, in comparison with the pictures you shot at the beginning of the year in grim weather:) Greetings from sunny Paris love Andrea
Andrea from Paris
Thanks FC and Jill, the art v. craft is a continuing topic on several of the textiles lists and groups I belong too, Jill don't put down what you do. It is the attitude many people have that textile equates to practical, also some people mistake technique for art so they think that using a new technique means better art when it does not, I create both craft i.e. my cushions and art i.e. my Dad's Amaryllis large wall hanging, I also like to experiment with ways of using materials, test out new materials and try different techniques all these things are the equivalent of the fine art painters sketch book and working drawings, they are not finished art work. I have had several people (some textile artists) ask me why I did Dad's Amaryllis as a quilt and why didn't I do it on canvas, I didn't want to do it on canvas but I am left feeling it would have been seen more as art if I had, canvas is fabric but fabric that has been stretched to look like a board so I could ask 'why don't painters use board?' (yes I know some do but no one questions a painter for making fabric look like board) sorry I鈥檝e gone on a bit you can see that this is something that occupies me.
island threads from lewis
I am artless, guileless but not quite witless.
mjc from NM,USA
mjc I am sorry if my comments offend you I did not intend offence to anyone, I hope you accept my apology,
island threads from lewis
IT - my comment (meant to be funny) had NOTHING to do with taking offence at any of your comments. Come on IT, you know pretty well that you are very well liked (appreciated, and some of us are quite in awe of your work), and I for one would never think of taking offence at any of your remarks. # I have better be careful with MY remarks. because clearly I have been misunderstood.# Have a good weekend, y'all.
mjc from NM,USA
mjc. good, I did laugh initially at your words but them realised they could be taken another way so then started to worry, you have a good weekend too, IT ;o)
island threads from lewis
RE: Beach Photo angle...I took a bunch of photos on Harris and Lewis last spring that were tilted like that.(gretchenjones.com>photos) I think perhaps the island is tilted. It certainly couldn't have been the photographer...
Gretchen from Missouri
Gretchen, my photo is tilted because I was travelling on a bus when I took it, I hope you enjoyed your holiday on Harris and Lewis and will come back soon,
island threads from lewis
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