"Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent; with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play."~~Henri Matisse
…from The Crafter’s Workshop….
well, they’re not all new…top row: Mums, Aborigine, Summer; bottom row: Wonky Circles (Julie Fei-Fan Balzer), Birds, Antiquities. Now I just need to get them loaded into my Etsy shop. I LOVE the Crafter’s Workshop stencils.
Last week, inspired to play…I got out some watercolor ATC cards and began to re-create some of my doodles from the past year with ink and then to color them with gouache watercolors. I had sketches of apples falling into a bucket or a basket, bird families on an outing and even some on a “picnic”. My mood and aim is playful, whimsical, something I don’t usually engage in in my fiber work. I think I will reserve that for my watercolor sketches.
Bucket of Apples
Bird Family Picnic
Bird Family Outing
Yesterday I worked on fabric for my small ArtFul cloth bags. They are the size of a small make-up bag but can be used for other things too. My inventory is getting low. (That’s a good thing! It means I’m selling.) So it’s time to get back to work on them again.
First I pull out pieces of cloth from my ever-swelling stack. For some reason, I always go for the paint rags. As I’m pulling out pieces I pray that I start getting ideas for other designs to layer on them, but nothing was coming Wednesday night. Bleh. When I woke up yesterday morning, however, ideas were coming, so it was time to get to work!
Remember the bird stamps I was making a couple of weeks ago? Well, the birds are finding their way onto these bags.
I think I’m going to have to keep one for myself.
