Medal

Stitching on a piece inspired by Haf Weighton for Textileartist.org Stitch Club. A medal for healing, repairing , mending. For me, if related to this uncertain time of Covid 19 I became quiet or quieter. Reflection of what the world had become before this Pandemic.

I quite like it as it is rather than cutting out to become a round medal. It was stitched onto two pieces of fabric that some time ago I had stitched together with folds and pleats as if to make a landscape. But this was put aside and found just as I was searching for fabric for this project. I like the landscape idea that this has been stitched on as it implies a quiet landscape ,in my backyard,with no need to rush off to participate in outside activities. A quiet , guilty pleasure. 

Sacred Shrine

beading and stitching on this small shrine. More stitching then will cut away the opening to add an image. Not sure what will go in the aperture yet. Slow going.

Life Drawing

last night on SBS was an online life drawing class. It was hosted by Rove Macmanus. There were several life models and  5 different poses to draw during the Two hour show.

Theses are my attempts. I missed the ist one as I didn’t realise we had to get the pose up on another device as the tv camera was moving around through the room looking at the five artists drawing along in the studio.

I really enjoyed the session. The only other time I explored Life drawing  was when The Art Shed at West End organised a session to try and get in the World Book of Records with the biggest Life Drawing session. Didn’t manage to break the record but it was so much fun as well. 

Animation

I downloaded an app onto my iPad that can take photos that can be strung together to make a little animation. It was fir the  recent Qagoma drawing sessions with Bill Platz. It was easy and so much fun. But I can’t work out how to share the three little animated videos I made of my drawings. So will maybe have to just take a still image to put here of the three pieces I developed along with Bill Platz.

The first one is the tea cup and it’s shadow. This was based on a photograph by Olive Cotton and it is well known because of the shadows which caused her to name it Tea Cup Ballet . The cups and shadows were like dancers lined up with the handles being the arms crooked as if a hand was on their hip. So this animation had the tea cup moving across the page. The second animation is the bath tub. It was based on part of a print. The animation here was using adding and take away by erasing spots of water to look as if the shower was turned on and then off.

The third animation was from an image in a propaganda poster. The man marching with his flag was animated to wave his flag up and down and then finally fall down the hill.