Playing along in the One Four Challenge again. It’s Week four already! I’ve been playing around on another project with photos of ancestors. This woman intrigues me, though I have no idea who she is. Are we related or is she a family friend I’m pretty sure she’s from Montreal at sometime around or just […]
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.
How Obsessive Are You?
As much as I like this, I may never do another like it. It’s small. Definitely small for all the detailed embroidery on it. It took forever and a day. I do find embroidering to be relaxing but unfortunately I can’t sit long without my RLS kicking in so I end up standing even to […]
February One Four Challenge Week 3
The processing for this week began with a crop to the lower center of the original photo. Then smart sharpened and adjusted the exposure slightly before converting to black and white.I duplicated that image and took it to the threshold, layered the two and topped it off with a third layer of the original, each […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 