Elise Blaha shares a really sweet and easy DIY holiday star project that anyone could do. I love the rustic look of it and think it would make a great gift.
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Last month, I attended the Sally Ride Science Festival with my daughter at Rice University here in Houston. During a break in one of the sessions, I stumbled across an amazingly colorful and beautiful exhibit in the Rice Gallery. I only had a few minutes to explore it, but I was completely smitten with the bold work of Los Angeles artist, Ana Serrano, who recreates vibrant neighborhoods with cardboard and paint. I'm so glad to have found this short documentary by filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley on her work over on Junkculture, and after hearing more about the exhibit I'll be making an extra trip back up to Rice so I can spend more time exploring Serrano's work.
Last month, I attended the Sally Ride Science Festival with my daughter at Rice University here in Houston. During a break in one of the sessions, I stumbled across an amazingly colorful and beautiful exhibit in the Rice Gallery. I only had a few minutes to explore it, but I was completely smitten with the bold work of Los Angeles artist, Ana Serrano, who recreates vibrant neighborhoods with cardboard and paint. I'm so glad to have found this short documentary by filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley on her work over on Junkculture, and after hearing more about the exhibit I'll be making an extra trip back up to Rice so I can spend more time exploring Serrano's work.
Can you even believe that this is paper? Design for Mankind featured this insanely rad piece by Peter Combe that was created by shredding and layering thousands of architect/designer size paint chips.
Can you even believe that this is paper? Design for Mankind featured this insanely rad piece by Peter Combe that was created by shredding and layering thousands of architect/designer size paint chips.
Artist Erik Kessels created an exhibit, on display at Foam in Amsterdam, that is a massive collection of every photo uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. It's stunning to see the volume of images as they literally pile up almost to the ceiling and pour through multiple rooms.
Through the digitalisation of photography and the rise of sites such as Flickr and Facebook, everyone now takes photos, and distributes and shares them with the world - the result is countless photos at our disposal. Kessels visualises 'drowning in pictures of the experiences of others', by printing all the images that were posted on Flickr during a 24-hour period and dumping them in the exhibition space. The end result is an overwhelming presentation of a million prints.
[via Creative Review and @CraftyB]
Artist Erik Kessels created an exhibit, on display at Foam in Amsterdam, that is a massive collection of every photo uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. It's stunning to see the volume of images as they literally pile up almost to the ceiling and pour through multiple rooms.
Through the digitalisation of photography and the rise of sites such as Flickr and Facebook, everyone now takes photos, and distributes and shares them with the world - the result is countless photos at our disposal. Kessels visualises 'drowning in pictures of the experiences of others', by printing all the images that were posted on Flickr during a 24-hour period and dumping them in the exhibition space. The end result is an overwhelming presentation of a million prints.
[via Creative Review and @CraftyB]
Artist Erik Kessels created an exhibit, on display at Foam in Amsterdam, that is a massive collection of every photo uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. It's stunning to see the volume of images as they literally pile up almost to the ceiling and pour through multiple rooms.
Through the digitalisation of photography and the rise of sites such as Flickr and Facebook, everyone now takes photos, and distributes and shares them with the world - the result is countless photos at our disposal. Kessels visualises 'drowning in pictures of the experiences of others', by printing all the images that were posted on Flickr during a 24-hour period and dumping them in the exhibition space. The end result is an overwhelming presentation of a million prints.
[via Creative Review and @CraftyB]
I stumbled on Peggy Dembicer's amazing beaded portrait of the Johnny Depp Mad Hatter character over on Flickr this weekend. I love that she also included a video with details on the making of the piece.
It took about 35 hours of construction time, which includes the designing and will include the finishing, which means knotting all the threads. There are 12, 880 beads in this. Each row has 115 beads and there are 112 rows.
It's fascinating to watch the piece slowing coming together, row by meticulous row, on the loom.
I dug a little deeper in her Flickr stream, and found heaps of beautiful projects, and then realized she's none other than the mastermind behind the beaded Candy Land game board that made me swoon years ago. I'm so glad I stumbled on her work again, and will look forward to following her.
Originally posted 2008-11-12 04:58:46. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Santa Fe Needlepoint by Lorene Salt
Last month my friend Lorene Salt & her husband were visiting Napa Valley. We met for lunch and Lorene brought me pictures of her wonderful stitching. I was blown away thinking about the piece pictured above.
In fact I kept thinking about it. It was one of Lorene’s pieces for her Master Craftsman from the Embroiderers Association of Canada. It’s an adaptation anyone can do and so I asked her to share it with you.
This is what she says about the piece:
For this project I was told to cut a piece of black construction paper into various shapes. I was then supposed to glue it onto white paper as if it were an exploding diagram.
Once I had a design that I was happy with, I glued the black pieces on to the white paper. I then traced the design onto canvas. I then picked a colour scheme that I liked, in this case oranges and turquoises. I then started filling in the different areas with different stitches and threads.
From the picture you can see that the black paper pieces I stitched in the oranges and the thin turquoise parts are where the white paper showed through.
When finished, I stitched around the entire piece in black so that is framed the work inside.
She calls the piece Santa Fe, after the color scheme.
There are so many things I like about this piece. I love the color scheme (it’s one of my favorites) and I think she’s done a great job of using overdyed threads in a way that looks natural and not over the top.
I also love that her choice of stitches reinforces the shape of the areas. The ones which are sharply pointed have stitches which emphasize that fact. For example, the Random Rhodes which run diagonally all across the piece look like a river of stars to me. And the rhythmic Bargello really shows off that space.
When it comes to the turquoise area, the negative space of the design, they are packed with texture too. It would have been so easy to just pick a single stitch and use it everywhere, but the design would have been diminished that was. This additional texture makes you want to look at it and explore.
One last point, I’ve talked about Mary Shipp’s rule of 1-3-5 when doing needlepoint so that it looks balanced. One element, in this case the stitches, should predominate. A second element, in this case the colors, should have a middle amount. There are only two colors, but it looks like 20 stitches (by my count). The final element, in this case texture, should be severely limited. I think Lorene used only one or two kinds of thread. The coral is silk and the turquoise is either silk or cotton floss.
The cut paper technique is one often found in art books, and I have often wondered about it. Here you can see how something anyone can do can be taken to make wonderful needlepoint.
Thanks Lorene, for sharing!
Related posts:
- Adapting Needlepoint – Not so Big a Failure
- The Graph Paper Problem
- brown paper packages – New Colors
- Monochromatic Color Schemes
- Thinking Outside the Box – Adapting a Chart to Needlepoint
Continued here:
Adapting Randomly Cut Paper to Needlepoint
