How've you been? I have missed this little space more than I can say. I wish I could tell you that I'm getting there or at least making progress but I'm not sure I am. I have been drawing, I have been painting, I have been trying to force something that I really don't think is there. The longer this goes on the more I am beginning to realise that I don't want to change who I am creatively. With that in mind I'm hoping it's a 'blip' this creative meltdown I appear to be suffering from.
There are two online classes ongoing at the moment and I have been focusing on those, trying to give my best to those...(I think I am but they can tell you better than me) The piece here isn't from my ledger class although you would be forgiven for thinking it was. It's inspired by my ledger class and it's an idea I have been working on for an artist book in a different form. In addition to this I have been thinking a lot about backgrounds....page backgrounds specifically but that's an altogether different challenge. I'm no painter....recent painting practice has confirmed that, painting actually makes me unhappy....brings me down.....truly deflates me. How to achieve interesting page backgrounds without painting? Print? I'm not a printer....the simple truth is I am an embroiderer, nothing else.....I stitch.
Reading this back I laughed out loud....confusion still reigns....good thing you can't see inside my head.