Lots of clean up underway here! It’s incredible how many small scraps of fabric litter every flat surface in this room, including the floor! That makes for some tedious organizing! And there’s no way of getting away with ignoring this unless you want to just toss away handfuls of money. In a small room, this […]
Author: turtlemoonimpressions
As a native plant gardener, the natural world is phenomenal and so much of the man-made world - our architecture, our cities - are stunning accomplishments. They exist hand in hand in both beautiful expressions and sometimes disastrous manifestations.
Our entire existence with the natural and the invented is intertwined – each dependent on the other, even as my art evolves, each breathing in the wake of the other.
As a mixed media artist - textile, paper, printmaker - various substrates and mediums - surface design is one aspect of the process that I love. I thoroughly enjoy the play with color, value and construct, particularly the improvisation which starts with one thing, an idea, a glimpse of a vision, perhaps something that captures my eye for a moment in time and it grows organically. I become focused on whatever piece I'm working on and follow my muse to find my way.
Just Desserts
The last of the classwork! From a photo taken over 30 years ago by a friend, Kathy Weinstein, when we both worked in SF at Just Desserts in San Francisco, my first job in the city. I was serving it up that day.
Odd Bird
I’m having withdrawals from Pam’s class…sad to say it’s over. The last lessons were about depicting emotion using color contrast. I set out to create an unusual bird, mysterious or exotic, in a dark garden. Not convinced that I was successful in the lesson, but it certainly is an odd bird in an odd quilt.
Turtlemoon Impressions 