This was a wonderful class One Theme, Many Possibilities by the talented and charming Kerr Grabowski. If you’ve been thinking about it, jump onboard the next class you can! It was an extraordinary adventure. My class was comprised of a room full of independents that just ran with every ball Kerr threw out to […]
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.
Quilting By the Lake
Quilting By The Lake! An intense experience all around. The best part echoed by all is the classes and the caliber of instructors. My class with Kerr Grabowski – One Theme, Many Marks – primarily about deconstructive screen printing, extends to other forms of mark making to go along with it. As in almost all […]
Unusual To You Too?
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Guest host Lignum Draco asks us to experiment with something unusual. A sudden appearance of some unusual fungus in opposite sides of my yard on the fringes of woodland surpised me! I still don’t know what this one is above. But the bottom one is “Strobilomyces strobilaceus, also called Strobilomyces floccopus […]