no words wednesday

a new home

For this piece, thank you for purchasing real art! I love these landscape pieces. This scenery is all around me here in Va. Sadly disappearing, but there are still hold outs..

and more

a little colorful knitting!

current studio/work

All the work going on, and for those who read 'Studios' magazine, a real artist studio, warts and all...





Putting that hand dyed silk to good use..

More silk lovelyness!... now this is my kind of laundry!

meadow views

Even though it doesn't look like the picture on the bottom, the art quilt was distilled from that view, just in a different season!

With hand dyed fabric (I'm really loving this process, and have lots of hand dyed silk stuff to show you)!

Not a whole lot of embellishment , an excercise in restraint.

The back garden in high summer.

studio friday

I am determined to do some art today! With 1million things going on, I've lost track of my art..Ok, no to all things today but art!! Above a blurry pic of a wip large landscape, oil on canvas..50x50"

still working!

Even though I have no studio right now, for a good reason!! I'm still stitching! Working on my stitched landscape series:


Cold and barren ouside!

Warm and stitchy inside!

I'm am also endeavoring to incorporate text into the pieces, both with machine and paper, prose and poetry...

All right! What are you working on?

shorter days

It's getting dark pretty early now..so I've been working on some snuggly things.. this is a very colorful shawl made with hand dyed chenile yarn from blue heron..

Not sure if something was eating at these, out there in the garden..

The gloaming, as the Scots say. Dare I use the word 'twilight'? Is a lovely, peaceful time of day. Winter just around the corner..

transitions

There is a cold snap now, as the chilly air descends to the forest. There are few tenacious leaves hanging on here and there. Time for lines, paint and color. Even if the colors are subdued and cool. WIP painting going on, wip landscape going on...

sketchbook

A few entries lately..

IF

"Fail" not quite spring yet, in this one.. oil on canvas..

save

We plow under all the farm land around here:-( this is from an orchard that it now a sub-division.

dreams

A field of dreams. Not yet green, but simmering just below the surface..

progress

This is an old tank by the train crossing near by. I'm sure it's been long out of use.. It is the subject of the next set of paintings.. progress or not? I seem to be enamored of rust lately. And this is one big rusty thing. Maybe 'transition' is a better title.

in

Landscape that got juried into a show, simple, and windswept. Starting 'Illustration Friday' next week..

balance

I don't seem to be the kind of artist that can work on one thing at a time. I work on organic, fluid subjects, then crave the concrete, solid blocks of man made forms. I used to feel pretty guilty about this, but now I just accept it. Hence the name of this blog..

Artist and crafter. I don't fit exactly into either world. That's ok.

photo: painting landscapes