Over the past year of so, I have been
playing around with several different media including collage,
watercolour painting, embroidery, making journals and bookbinding
and, of course, anything fibre - quilting, sewing, fibre art.
A few month ago as I was looking for
inspiration I came across ideas on using art prompts, which led me to
an article by Robin Olsen in an old issue of Cloth Paper Scissors.
I wrote down her 50 or so prompts and
added a whole bunch of my own. There's an ongoing list beside my
computer, whenever I see anything interesting, I add them to the list
and they will be added to my container.
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| Art Prompts |
Before Christmas I did a little trial
run.
ART PROMPT #1 – LACE
My first prompt - “LACE”.
A challenge for me, I'm not a “lace”
sort of person.
Then I remembered experimenting with a
lacy fabric while trying to figure out how to make the sun rays in
“Renewal”.
I went with organza but the lace looked interesting.
I went with organza but the lace looked interesting.
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| lace fabric |
And then this photo came to mind. This was
taken on a bright cold morning when everything was covered in
hoarfrost.
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| Hoarfrost |
Definition of Hoarfrost:
a
grayish-white crystalline deposit of frozen water vapour formed in
clear still weather on vegetation, fences, etc.
I
decided to start small and simple.
This
is a little 6” x 6” canvas that I painted in the same bright blue
as the photo.
I
then cut branches from a black shiny magazine page and collaged it
on.
The
“lace” was cut in tiny strips and glued on.
Here
is “Frosty Morning”.
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| Frosty Morning |
ART
PROMPT #2 – GREY
I
had an idea for making skinny strips place mats for
Christmas and thought I could do a mini experiment making postcards,
same shape, right?
Could
I sew all the skinny strips into one piece and then cut them up?
I
chose a “grey” leaf fabric for the background and a bright print
for the strips.
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| fabric choices |
I
soon realized that I had a whole lot of strips meeting in the central
area but that if I wasn't careful some of the postcards would only
have one strip if any.
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| stitched and before cutting into postcards |
I
added a little decorative stitching and then quilted the whole piece
before cutting it up into postcards.
They
looked a little blah so I painted one of the leaves on
each card with Tsukneko inks.
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| postcard |
I
used variegated thread to satin stitch the edges on two of the cards
and off-white on the others. I prefer the white.
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| 7 postcards and 1 bookmark |
I
made each place mat individually and all the same by cutting through
all four layers in each set of four.
I
also realized that I needed a really good contrast between the
fabrics for the strips to show up well.
It
was a good experiment!
So...........now what?
Last
week I pulled out another prompt.
ART
PROMPT #3 – USE TAPE
Check
my blog tomorrow to see my “tape” project.
HERE'S
MY PLAN
One
prompt, one week, one project
Make
something creative.
Use
any Media.
Blog
about the project every Friday.
Pick
a prompt for the next week.
ANYONE WANT TO PLAY ALONG????
IF YOU DO:
- BLOG ABOUT IT
- LEAVE A NOTE IN MY COMMENTS ON MY FRIDAY POST – INCLUDING YOUR BLOG ADDRESS – (of the actual blog post, please)
OR
- IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BLOG, SEND ME A PICTURE OF YOUR PROJECT BEFORE THE FOLLOWING FRIDAY AND I WILL POST IT ON MY BLOG – todayinkenogami@gmail.com
Let's get creative,
Terry
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