What Some Fishing Line Will Hook

Back in the days when I designed exhibits for museums, fishing line was the go-to for hanging anything invisibly. It's such a standard for installing objects; that pleasing floatiness is so fun. This is, again, at the National Aquarium.
 

Nearer Water

Visiting Baltimore, I got to take in the National Aquarium where the theme is all about water. Very apt for these times, as climate change has a great effect on the ocean's habitat. Not to mention that I added more wonderful fish shapes to my notebook for printing.
 

Summer QSDS Virtually

Quilt Surface Design Symposium meets the last week of May through the first week of June. I'll be teaching three classes virtually, two are week long and are surface design and printing. Check them out on their site: https://www.qsds.com/classesbysession2021.html#pauly4
 

Soy Wax My Friend

For silk screening, I find soy wax gives me marks that I can't get any other way. I love the brush strokes that are part of the application, and the organic edge. Those spaghetti marks are rubbings. Just to confuse you.
 

Full Moon for March

Worm moon, the nickname for this month's moon, has things coming out of the ground and emerging. Which is how we can feel after being closed up for so long. I'm ready for getting out, even if clouds cover tonight's full moon. 
 

Just Silkscreens

My next virtual class is Just Silkscreens on April 5-9, and there's one space left. I offer this because of all the printing methods I use (and teach) silk screening is my go-to. It's versatile, quick, complex, lasting, and layered. Not to mention the fact that I can get BIG graphics. No wimps!
 

What You Don't See

Tonight was a walk down the Charlotte Pier (Lake Ontario) and I hadn't noticed that the railing was holding up the land's edge. It's that weird flattening from a photograph that makes incongruous connections. It's just perspective.
 

Quilt National Gives You a Dozen Ways

I've a piece in this year's Quilt National, an exhibition that opens late May. In August I'll be virtually teaching through Quilt National's website. The three day class is called "A Dozen Ways: Design for Art Quilts" and we learn more than dozen ways to start composition works.  August 17 to 19.

 

Shade, Sun

On the property where I'm on a work vacation, there is a 1904 carriage house. It's in rough shape and may not survive it's faults, but for now it is a study in light and shadow. And that red! What other color could it be?
 

The Blues

Intense blue dye was available from my favorite Pro Chemical and Dye supplier, so I've added prints of that to prints made with mixing blue and also a bit of turquoise (I think) for a nice spread of blues from the print table. I'll be doing more come Just Silkscreen in a couple of weeks.

 

If We Had the Gift of Space

Most homes have walls 8 feet tall, a standard in residential build. This house's walls are 9 1/2 feet high. The expanse makes seeing interior space a different way, not to mention that other matters are framed in a new scale. If we all had space, a chance to dream, what would that mean to our creative outlet?