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The Emporia => Embroidery and Embellishment => Topic started by: BrendaP on November 21, 2021, 11:57:49 AM
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The Fibre Arts Take Two "Making Connections" course with Cas Holmes is coming to an end now and I have submitted my entry for the end of course virtual exhibition.
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Yesterday I went to see an exhibition of Cas' work on the redundant lightship, LV21, now moored at Gravesend.
https://lv21.co.uk/whats-on/places-spaces-and-traces-shipping-forecast/ (https://lv21.co.uk/whats-on/places-spaces-and-traces-shipping-forecast/)
Despite using similar techniques her work is very different to mine. Her long hanging pieces are mich lighter (weight) almost gauzy despite being designed to be viewed from both sides, and her use of colour is much more limited.
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That's lovely. You're very talented.
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I really like that, it feels very organic to me, well done @BrendaP
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Lovely @BrendaP very fresh feeling.
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That is really lovely @BrendaP
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Lovely work. :thumb:
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That's lovely @BrendaP
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Thank you for the nice comments.
The brief was a 3:1 landscape format to reflect the places around us during lockdown. For me the daily one hour exercise walk took me past a lovely flowering cherry tree, into the lane and past an old corrugated barn with so much vegetation growing over it that it looks like it has an earth roof, then scrubby, twiggy hedges, open fields and onto the marshes proper with reeds and rushes. Charles Dickens quote from Great Expectations seemed appropriate because that was based on Cooling marshes just a few miles away and all part of the North Kent Marshes.
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That is gorgeous, I keep wanting to combine art and textiles but can never bring it together right, you obviously have a talent there
BB
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Beautiful @BrendaP , very artistic :)
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Love that @BrendaP !! So very Cas in spirit if not imitation. You have taken the essence of what she does and made it your own. :loveit:
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I really like it. :loveit:
Great combination of textiles put together and it has a gentle timeless feel to it.
I hope you make more of these pieces as you have a real talent for it. :perfect10:
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That is stunning BrendaP, you are very clever and talented.
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The end of course e-book of students' work has now been published.
http://exhibition.fibreartstaketwo.com/books/uzbb/?fbclid=IwAR33eJjgeJ-DWbptm_PXn_Fc1A4elobm2DvlZOQKHhq5KSEa1L4TbKTyQy8#p=1 (http://exhibition.fibreartstaketwo.com/books/uzbb/?fbclid=IwAR33eJjgeJ-DWbptm_PXn_Fc1A4elobm2DvlZOQKHhq5KSEa1L4TbKTyQy8#p=1)
My bit is on page 19.
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I did enjoy looking at those. What a lot of different "atmospheres" come across. I particularly liked the depth of yours @BrendaP - I felt as if I was really looking into it. I loved the barn - you have picked the colours especially well - it really was corrugated iron! Thank you for that.
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Thank you for the link to your work and all the others as well. I really enjoyed looking at those and liked how the artists represented their walk through so many different ways. I've enjoyed doing similar things so I was very interested in all the different techniques used.Brilliant work. Thank you. :thumb:
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Some wonderful work there and such a pleasure to look through.
Thank you for the link :hug:
BB
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Heh .. I saw page 10 by Jenni Eldridge and was all "wow, impressive" and then saw it was a photograph rather than fiber. :laughing:
I really enjoyed all the different stuff. I wish I could find a class like that.
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Those are wonderful. What a fabulous project. They are all quite different and very creative.
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Heh .. I saw page 10 by Jenni Eldridge and was all "wow, impressive" and then saw it was a photograph rather than fiber. :laughing:
I think she might have been the person who posted about lots of domestic problems and couldn't complete the course in the time frame.
I really enjoyed all the different stuff. I wish I could find a class like that.
The very last page of the e-book includes a link to register an interest if the course is repeated, although I have no idea whether or not it will be repeated.
Also explore the Fibre Arts Take Two Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/fibreartstaketwo?fbclid=IwAR0ie5eDGc27FYT0YcUrYEGMtLPlVZm-GJ5s4LAPipSyzpxnhtCAdRQVxlQ (https://www.facebook.com/fibreartstaketwo?fbclid=IwAR0ie5eDGc27FYT0YcUrYEGMtLPlVZm-GJ5s4LAPipSyzpxnhtCAdRQVxlQ)
They run lots of fibre/textile courses, and they also have Friday Feature Artist interviews which are live Facebook videos but the recordings stay on FB for some time. That's how I found the Cas Holmes course.
The courses aren't cheap; but you have them for 'ever' so can always go back to them.
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@BrendaP ... I'm always interested and terrified in equal measures about textile artwork but seeing these Im wondering whether my Appliqued coastal cottage (https://photos.app.goo.gl/bdJmqzjc2LGcX7DbA) would have been allowed?
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@BrendaP ... I'm always interested and terrified in equal measures about textile artwork but seeing these Im wondering whether my Appliqued coastal cottage (https://photos.app.goo.gl/bdJmqzjc2LGcX7DbA) would have been allowed?
@Iminei
It's not a case of "allowed" or "not allowed", it was the end of course exhibition by students on that course and the theme was the paths we walked through lockdown wherever in the world we are. I think Fibre Arts Take Two do a similar thing with each course they run.
All of the pieces (except the photo!) would have used much the same techniques; dry collage of various fabrics and papers to get a background, temporarily held together with carboxy-methyl-cellulose (wallpaper paste) and then more layers of applique, and maybe found items, added then the whole lot held together with hand and/or machine stitching.
You probably didn't use the wallpaper paste - indeed that was new to most of us but everyone agreed that although initially messy it's much nicer to work with than other adhesives because when you get to the sewing stages as it doesn't clog the needle and also it's pretty inert and harmless. But otherwise, apart from not being the 3:1 landscape format, it would have fitted the brief although we were encouraged to dye/stain/mark fabrics ourselves and to upcycle pre-loved stuff. As is clear from the e-book everone's style is different, indeed it would be wrong if we weren't.
I haven't been doing much of it the last couple of weeks, but once all the Christmas stuff is out of the way I do want to get down to doing more of this sort of thing. Cas called it painting with cloth.
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@Iminei How is Starry Night going ? The first photos you put up were lovely.