So Much Depends: A Little Peep-in-Progress

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Hello, all! I'm so excited by all the activity: The shed renovations, the photos of work-in-progress, the general buzz increasing as the exhibition date draws near. So exciting! I wanted to share a little work-in-progress from my studio in California as I can't be at the meetings, in person. I also just wanted to share a general "Woot, woot" of excitement as this meshing of marvelous things all come together in this show and community; a women's art collective of multidisciplinary artists with a first show in a communal art space (and updated barn/ shed) in the beauty of the Hudson River. I mean really, how incredibly meaningful and just darn lovely.

I am wrestling it out with Photoshop and it's quite an even fight but I think that ultimately, I might just win! Designing, redesigning, configuring, reconfiguring I finally have all the backgrounds done and the layout re-reconfigured. Above is a snidbit of the first page of my handmade book, though now I'm going to print the photograph separate from the red sweater background, then sew the two together with thread. The other 8 pages will look similar, though different images, different lines of the poem, different latitude/ longitude locations, and then all the pages bound together into one cohesive book. Perhaps some deer image-transfers on the back pages. (Little collage deer heads will also be tucked into the edges of the foreground photo.) Phew! Just wanted to share.

xoxo,
k.

Treasure From Boo and Turning Blue

An old man sat in a chair in the Pennsylvania afternoon sun watching over a table strewn with miscellanea. My favorite kind of junk. When I was finished my hands were filled with pocket watches, gears, a compass, a pocket knife, dice - bits and pieces from an imagined childhood. All circles. All gifts from Boo Radley. A childhood compass from one of my favorite books. A perfect tree hole in the woods (a tree more hole then trunk) begged me to use it and so I am gathering and creating a small second piece for the show. The process takes me back to days when my own pockets were filled with the treasure of a neighborhood bike ride. Doesn't it make you wonder just who's pocket this was in? Or what lock (still on a door in some Pennsylvania farm house?) the keys opened?

Secondly, sails are taking shape in the Grey House basement. I began my Indigo dye bath about two weeks ago (a learning process in itself) and here's the first test run. I love this blue. I had imagined something much darker but this is a pleasant surprise. More like sky. I still have a lot more jeans to cut and dye, a bit of a mountain actually, but I am looking forward to beginning to sew them and seeing the form take shape.

This was my initial sketch of the sail but I think I may be changing the design. I may be making the front sails (the one's that look like triangles) rather then the main sail. Partly because the amount of jeans I have been able to collect means I have limited material to work with so I think two smaller sails will look better on the lawn then one large sail on a mast. But we'll see. I designed this one with water, earth and sky in mind (the middle section represented the 24 time zones.) I will still probably incorporate that in some way but a little more in the abstract. Oh, dear. Not much time to figure it all out is there?

Haleighluia!

Well, here is my painting.  Finally, under way and starting to look like something.  I have a long way to go but I think I have a little momentum now.   Ships, Ships, Ships... sailing ships.

sorry this image is so sucky.  I hope you get the idea.

This is my super rough sketch of the layout.  Just thought I would throw it in for all to see.

The Big Shed Project

Before...

During...

During, Day 2...

End still to come...

Anyone up for a trip to the Grail?  I know some really fun activities we can do...

denver blog

I find it difficult to put up "in progress" pictures, becasue I think my sculpture looks funny, but I hope you enjoy it anyway! Carloyn sent me a glorious box full of jewels, feathers, papers, and fabrics. Absolutely perfect supplies, everything I imagined it would be. That box kept me up half the night when it arrived, it was so enticing. Carolyn is an evil scrabble genius but that is also enticing.

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

So, here is the image that does not want to be transferred onto my piece. I have had a long talk with it and it just will not cooperated. I am still on the hunt for oil of wintergreen to try that transfer method. Maybe minty fresh will do the trick...

Otherwise, I have the resin on order, the site chosen, the sketch/layout complete but still a ton to do. Where has the time gone?

We will be doing a big clean up at the Grail this weekend. So, look out Cornwall-on-Hudson here comes trouble...

Here are some fun images, that I have been meaning to share, from our last meeting...

More Options for Business Cards

Hi All-
posting more options for the business cards. I've also sent them via email.



Please vote for you top 3 choices from 1-best to 3-okay. I will tally up points for each card depending on it's spot in your vote, # 1 gets 3 & # 3 will get 1. Once we have a tally it will be easier to move forward.
Thanks!