Posted in artwork, tagged mixed media, online art classes on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just finished an online course with Alma Stoller through Joggles.com. It was great fun and allowed me to be spontaneous in a way the slow and precise nature of my usual artwork doesn’t allow. Here’s the portrait I created:
Thanks Alma for a liberating experience!
Posted in expat life, interdependence, tagged contemporary art parks, Italy, looking for beauty, sculpture gardens on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Last week, my husband and I visited an open-air sculpture museum and a city whose streets and squares serve as exhibition spaces for contemporary sculpture. Both were in the rolling countryside of Emilia-Romagna, near Bologna. Last summer, by chance, we had discovered the marvelous Giardino di Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Tuscany and, just recently, I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged not-to-do list, priorities on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Lisa Call is a textile artist whose blog is filled with the inspiring work she does on herself, as well as on her fabrics. Her recent post, titled Not To Do List, inspired me to clarify my own priorities in life in a new way.
Of course, both my physical desktop and my computer desktop [...]
Posted in Surface Design, blogging, dyeing on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Oh, this blogging business is complicated. Once you decide to start and think that you’re just going to have to be disciplined and creative about generating posts, you discover that there are endless things to learn about search engine placement and that all the research you did when you designed your website YEARS ago is [...]
Posted in expat life, tagged first leaves of spring, Milan, Milano, spring on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Spring is in the air, the leaves are emerging, I’ve had a couple of nice encounters with friends, and I’m feeling good. In fact, better than I’ve felt in a long time. In a sense, I feel like that joyful, positive, expansive person I’ve been most of my life but haven’t seen for a while [...]
Posted in Surface Design, dyeing, fabric, textile art, tagged dye, dyeing silk satin, silk, Surface Design on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It just won’t work! The acid-dyed satin is as ripply as the Procion/soda ash stuff! It seems that the soaking itself breaks something down in the weave. The cloth even seems almost stretchy. And no matter how much and how hot I iron it, I can’t make it smooth and shiny again!
I guess it’s time [...]
Posted in Surface Design, dyeing, fabric, textile art, tagged dye, dyeing silk satin, silk, Surface Design on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today, I used acid dyes to color a couple of pieces of silk satin for my thangkas. I don’t have a top-loading washing machine, so I had to go with the stove top method. And since I only have one pot big enough to allow the silk to swim freely, I did one color at [...]
Posted in artwork, buddhist, documentary, thangka, tibetan art, tagged Creating Buddhas, documentary, fabric thangka, film, Tara, Tibetan applique on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
A trailer of the documentary film, Creating Buddhas, has been posted on the Soulful Media website. Isadora filmed my final stitches to the Green Tara thangka a couple of weeks ago and will complete editing in the coming months. She’s done some beautiful film work and conducted some insightful interviews with renowned scholars of Tibetan [...]
Posted in art, tibetan art, tagged Buddhist art, fabric thangka, giclee, prints, Tibetan applique on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve set up a shop for prints of my thangkas at FineArtAmerica.com. I ordered some prints myself to check their quality, and they came out quite nicely. So I’m ready to go public. The high-quality inkjet prints are theoretically of “giclée” quality, but the image files I have uploaded are not of the super-high resolution [...]
Posted in art, textile art on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
In my earlier post about the New Fibers show, I mentioned an old issue of Surface Design Journal that had inspired me. Back in Milan now, I pulled that Fall 1995 issue off the shelf and reread the article, A Penetrating Eye: John Hawthorne’s Personal Cosmology, by Margo Mensing. I don’t think I’m allowed to [...]
