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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Preserving the Hooked Rugs Of Beauport

Here is one of the hooked rugs from Beauport, where there are over 200.

To read how they are being preserved go here

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Vogueing #30

Last but not least a flame pattern from a garment, also not drawn by me on the computer, this would take more patience then I'm capable of. Choose which ever you like best !

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Vogue #29

Without proper tool to draw the bike gear that inspired me I resorted to a photo of one from Nashbar ! Thanks for indulging me ! I'm running with the outside edge to preserve my sanity !

Monday, September 28, 2009

Peek At September Vogue

I spent today hooking and will do the same until Thursday, thank you Audio Books !

What do you think so far ?

How we see colour

Are we all seeing the same thing ?

Go here to see what Geoff Milburn has to say on the matter.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Embroidered Paradise - Textile Treasures from Central Asia

Vogueing #27

Tree Of Life Wallpaper - Country Couture

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Look at the Positive and Negative Space here !

FROM GABRIEL MORENO, see more here

Vogueing # 26

From the article Maestro, boxes upon boxes.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Vogueing # 25

Wallpaper border from Interiors section.

A Visitor

Yesterday was hook-in day and I had a lovely surprise, Micheline Howitt came and brought along her daughter Micheline Mann.

You will enjoy looking at her site Mann Made Studios. There are many wonderful rugs to be seen. I appreciate her skilful use of light and dark, click on her name above and you can see for yourself.

She has recently restored a schoolhouse and you can see the amazing story of that transformation also.

Here is one of her rugs Lake and Pines. Notice the depth and shape of the shadows, look at her cloud play and water, now that's the way to give water life. She inspires me.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Thank Goodness for Books in The Mail

I am in a mind wasteland here as I sit and wait for my leg to heal. To entertain and stimulate myself I ordered some books.I was sent on a journey by a post I made here in the blog, do you remember the Little Red Ridinghood in the mouth of the Big Bad Wolf ? This art reminded a sharing person of something I might be interested in, a book titled, Picture this: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang. This link me to various other books which contained the word Notan. This is not something I knew about. Although it apparently is a middle school concept, it was not covered in the dark ages.

Wikipedia has this description:

Nōtan (濃淡^?) is a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark next to the other in art andimagery. This use of light and dark translates shape and form into flat shapes on a two-dimensional surface. Nōtan is traditionally presented in paint, ink, or cut paper, but it is relevant to a host of modern day image-making techniques, such aslithography in printmaking, and rotoscoping in animation.

nyone who knows me knows I'm all about the light and dark. So even though I've studied this a great deal I was interested to learn a new take on it or to deepen my understanding.

So I also ordered Notan, The Dark- Light Principle of Design

This led me to this instructional video that I'm using for a creative exercise on The Welcome Mat Group, Creation and Expansion.

(Jeez enough with the links already !)

This research led me to a book called Pictorial Composition and Composition Understanding, LIne, Notan and Color.

That should keep one part of the the gray matter busy.

For pure pleasure I got An Echo in The Bone. I'm also reading South of Broad by Pat Conroy and it is good.

If I didn't have books and my computer and my phone I would be crazy right now. Well, even crazier.

Tonight we move the hooking to high ground so it is easier to access.

Which brings me to this: