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Journal Cover-Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Silk Cocoon, Copper Wire, Beads, Couching

I know from what everyone else says that a journal is the way to keep track of ideas, to try out new things and for inspiration anytime, but it’s hard to get started, especially if you have never done one. To give me an impetus, I bought a journal of blank pages (8 1/2″ x 11 1/2″‘) and made a journal cover from a pattern supplied by Heather, in our Out of the Box group. Since making it, I have actually put some quotations down and have glued a few pictures for inspiration and have done some sketches. It already holds some ideas to go with.

I’m really tired of the candidates political blathering and it’s hard not to be completely cynical about their words. We seem to get the same results in the end. Wonder if any of them will be able to make real changes. I think a major contributor to our breakdown as a country, is the reluctance of most people to actually take the trouble to learn what’s happening, much less get involved. Too few informed voters.

Anyway, spring is on its way - at least here in Southern Nevada - and who could fail to be inspired by that?!?

I spent the past Friday checking out the Road to California show, something I have wanted to do for the past several years. I had a good time, met “my group” there and checked out the class they were taking. I guess I expected something more on the lines of the IQA Chicago show, don’t know why. There was wonderful work there, as usual at these events, but not as much innovative work as I would have liked. (You just can’t please everyone.) I missed the international artists, though there were a few. My favorite was Gloria Loughman’s wonderful work. Though I usually go more for the abstract, I saw some, especially Carol Taylor’s color-soaked piece in the instructors’ exhibit.  I guess one of the most fun parts is just being with all those enthusiastic women!  I did think some of the work seemed to be all about how many rows of quilting you could get on a piece - the quilting took over everything else.  Maybe that’s a trend these days, though I find it out of balance.  But it was a good time and it was a chance to check out the beach in Santa Monica!  That was pretty inspiring by itself!!  I am back in my studio now and having a great time decorating my journal and trying to figure out how to fix an old piece I was dissatisfied with.  Also coming up with ideas for a new one.new work.  The funk I was in over getting back to work after a long hiatus, moving and reorganizing, etc., was fixed by joining up with a small critique/inspirational group of wild, wonderful women here.

For my New Year’s resolution, I plan to post regularly to this blog.  We have moved to Henderson, Nevada, in November, and I have joined a wonderful small group.  Critique and input are vital to the artist’s growth, it seems to me.  I know lots of artists, like writers, work in isolation, but the ideas generated by talented, creative people do the same work as going to art museums and viewing other’s output do.  I read that a famous composer (can’t remember his name) said he never listened to other composers for fear he might inadvertently copy something.  Imagine never listening to music other than your own.  Brian Wilson said you can scarcely write without including some little part of someone else’s composition somewhere in the music.  The main thing, it seems to me, is to put the same old things together in new ways, as well as adding things entirely new.  The sum of the work is then truly new and unique.

I am making a journal cover for an artist’s journal, which I have never kept.  This is new territory for me.  Before, my ideas have been on little pieces of paper and in little notebooks I use for shopping lists, etc.  Consequently, I never get them together and sometimes don’t see them again for months.  Not very helpful.

My studio stuff is not here yet, but I have brought a few things with me and collected (bought) a few more things.  The stuff should arrive next week sometime, but in the meantime, I am off to Road to California, in Ontario, this weekend, where I no doubt will make a few purchases.

    Beads, silk cocoon, couched threads, machine embroidered on hand-painted Lutradur

This piece seems to need more contrast, especially against the first piece?