For the Creative and Curious . . . .

Uppercase 

Have you 
read Uppercase yet? 

Have you seen it? 
you must buy this marvellous magazine.
After all, it's for the Creative AND Curious ! 
it's Wonderful.

Canadian Artist Faye HeavyShield

Body of Land  



Have a look
at this moving video by the Canadian artist,
Faye HeavyShield. 
Faye narrates the video of her
very personal work entitled:
Body of Land.

I found it to be very personal, powerful, emotional and moving.
Her work has been on exhibit
in the National Gallery of Canada. 

Thank you, Faye for bringing us this work.

40 under 40 exhibiton

I know that all of my stitiching
and needlework friends 
of all backgrounds will 
really Get this.

Here is the video
of Anna Von Mertens
working on her project.
Anna's work was featured in
The Renwick Gallery of the 
 The Smithsonian Museum of American Art
exhibition:
40 under 40, Craft Futures

 

from the musee with Love

Thank you, Joe Fafard.
I love this Downtown Cow.

have a look at the artist profiles

Have a look at this
link to The Maker's profiles pages
of the Society of North American Goldsmiths.  
It's a fun browse.

Have a look and feel inspired

Last week i attended the 
annual SNAG conference. 

The Society of North American Metalsmiths
produce a gorgeous magazine that 
you should know about.   
It's not just
for goldsmiths or jewellery makers.
This is an inspiring and alluring magazine
for people who like to see art, beauty,
collectibles, one of a kind creations
and so much More.
    
Have a look here to see and learn and subscribe.

In the meantime, I wanted to share
this video with you.  It's inspiring.
The Renwick Gallery of
The Smithsonian American Art Exhibition from 2012 to 2013
held an exhibition titled: 
40 under 40, Craft Futures.

I am sure you'll enjoy seeing 
the video and learning about this
artist.

Advice for a human

 I just saw this terrific video 
for a book titled The Humans
by Matt Haig. 

I hope you can take 
four minutes to watch it.
The video is engaging,
thought provoking and 
best of all: it's fun.



Now i really want 
to read Matt Haig's book.  

what day is it for you ....

it's Museum day for me today.
I'm off to see an Exhibition of the work of
Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery of Canada.

see the exhibition link, here.

more paintings for my book . . .

Here are images of
two more of my
watercolour paintings that
went into my
Sketchbook Project 2012
book:







a closeup:



full view:

sketchbook project

Here are a few of the paintings that
went into my recent book
for the Sketchbook Project, 2012
(click for link)

The first two paintings are made on
rice paper.
The third, on watercolour paper.
The exhibiting tour for this project starts
next month, in Brooklyn, New York.

paintings

A few parts of my
Sketchbook,
before it all became a book . . .












My book will be
digitized in another month or two.
You'll be able to see all of it online at the
arthouse site, in
the Sketchbook Project, 2012 .

in knitting related things . . .

Today i'm working on my latest book for
The Sketchbook Project,
by Arthouse.
(click above for links)

To find me in these projects, go to the Arthouse site,
click on "community" and that will let you type
in the name of the artist you're looking for.


Aside from my little book of
paintings, the Knitting Companion and
i have been working on a blanket,
some socks and two cowls.
The Blanket is an ongoing project that i hope to finish
This Year. Yes, that's a big timeline, but
it's been so long in the making, i'll be happy to
start a new blanket.

Below, you'll find
a photo of my new tape measure.
it's a Ginormous olive. hee hee hee.
If this makes you think of ginormous martinis,
that's not our fault.
and -
you'll see my new, double pointed needles. Purchased
specifically for making fabulous socks.

hello

busy busy busy

ink and more

water colour, graphite, ink
on Watercolour paper

this and that

we've had a lot of construction
on our street since May of this year.
I think the construction is officially
over for the year, however
we still have these
suspicious numbers all over the sidewalks.
Who really knows what they mean?
when you walk along,
they seem quite random.

in unrelated news,
i stopped by Joe's Cow
recently. This lovely bovine
lives in front of the
Musee des beaux arts
here in Montreal.






and,
oh look,
the museum's Gift shop now
has a Link - so you can
shop online at the
Museum of fine arts!
Click Here for the Link to the Gift shop

stay with your beliefs

"In preparing a picture,
it seems to me very important
to begin by an indication
of the darkest values--and to
continue in order to the lightest value.
From the darkest to the lightest
I would establish twenty shades."
(Camille Corot)


"He is still the strongest.
He anticipated everything."
(Edgar Degas)

i love looking at the paintings of Rothko

"There is no such thing
as a good painting about nothing."

Mark Rothko, 1903-1970

and, for your viewing
pleasure, some entirely
non-related-to-the-quote
for today.... some images.
Enjoy.



clink. . . .

their blog is growing . . . .

oh, look.

The Arthouse co op has
changed the look of their blog.
and it's terrific.
Have a look when you have time.
It's quite fun.

You even get to see
other people's sketchbooks
when you peruse the blog. . .


Look Here !


and this is part of my most recent project.

This photo isn't on the
Art house Co op website yet.

it's like this, over here

you may
guess that i
have been busy
and productive.

And you would be Correct.

My project for the Art House Co op
fiction project has been sent off in the mail.
On time.

Sketchbook project

this week,
i learned about The sketchbook Project.
to learn more about it,
click here for their link.
Several artists i know are already signed up to
participate.

This is going to be fun.
Now, i wait for my sketchbook to arrive in the mail.
In 2011, the sketchbooks go on tour.