tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89616770019151780892024-03-14T10:06:33.883-07:00Art by HLMHLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-80365372331826287882018-07-05T13:16:00.003-07:002018-07-05T13:17:50.998-07:00New Parsley Art Studio Website<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been ignoring my website. But, nothing like a deadline to get me moving!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My website provider called and said technology has advanced enough since I last paid any attention to my site that it should be totally easier to make a new website. Then he offered me a deal I couldn't refuse ($8/month) so I said yes. I just had to make the switch from my old one before July 7.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday, I did it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My last site took a week of steady work (hours every day) to get "right." Yesterday, I had a new site in less than 2 hours. Phew!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you'll come by for a visit.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.parsleyartstudio.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.parsleyartstudio.com</span></a>HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-37802950757162604692018-04-08T11:39:00.000-07:002018-04-08T14:07:25.001-07:00Weaving<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have spent so much time at the fiber's studio these last few months, I thought I'd show you what all I've been doing--mostly weaving but some other things too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Right now I am completely obsessed with a weaving structure called doubleweave. Every time I get to start a new project, I ask: could this be a doubleweave project? I am not sure I'll ever not be obsessed with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had this little stool in my house, nestled under my coffee table. I wanted to make a cushion for it. YES, this could be a doubleweave project!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I dyed some white yarn in indigo dye, and wound that into the warp along with some white and black. I didn't like the contrast of the white at all, so I decided to paint the warp once it got onto the loom. You can see in this photo that the warp is white on the left side of the photo and purple on the right side!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I dyed some weft yarn and this detail shows that there are actually two purples, one more burgundy and one a little bluer, which I love. This structure is called doubleweave block.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't have enough woven cloth to make the entire cushion, so I used some luxurious purple corduroy that I'd gotten at a garage sale some time ago. Here is a late-night in-progress photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And, the final outcome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next, I attended an amazing workshop through the <a href="https://www.nocoweaversguild.org/" target="_blank">Northern Colorado Weaver's Guild</a> with the queen of doubleweave, <a href="http://www.doubleweaver.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Moore</a>, an artist based in Santa Fe. Here are a few photos of the workshop and my loom in progress. I still haven't done much more than this. The weaving workshop was so so fun! I left with new friends and tons of new knowledge and inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is a table full of doubleweave samples that Jennifer made:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least, I had to put my rainbow piece on the back burner because my next art school assignment took over my life! I have long wanted to try to bring my love for figure drawing into my love for weaving. I had a grand plan that I wanted to do with a dynamic, crouching pose. So I dived in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Here they all are together, variations on a theme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not done yet! Here is the current state of my loom, and I intend to use doubleweave pick-up to bring the motif into this. That may take some hours though. Stay tuned!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have gone "on retreat" twice in my life. Once in 2009ish, when I was working through some personal history, trying to reconcile that with the adult I was becoming. My counselor suggested it, and so I went.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="lr_dct_ph"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stayed with some nuns at a nearby abbey, who prepared meals for us retreaters and otherwise left us alone. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was quiet, it lacked distraction and there was no to-do list. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="lr_dct_ph"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was astonished at how productive it was just to be with myself. Just to have the space to </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">intentionally </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">think about certain topics. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wonderful</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to be removed from everyday life, just for a couple of days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second time I went on retreat was in 2012ish, this time solo, at Christmas. For three days, I kept myself company in a cabin in the mountains. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">decked the place with Christmas decor, listened to music (or not), discovered Bren</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">é</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Brown, read, wrote long hand-written letters, crafted a little, cooked, and just stared out the window.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There wasn't much intention besides wanting to think quietly, wanting to strip my world of its noise, wanting to care for myself as I usually care for everyone else. It was <i>extremely </i>restorative.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year, I took my third retreat. Again, a cabin in the woods, solo. 5 days. But this time, the intention was <i><u>art</u></i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I prepared by bringing about half my art studio with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll admit that I was
nervous. Yes, nervous. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to be
focused for so long. Nervous that I'd get lonely. Nervous that I might
not like what I made, or that I might not make anything at all. Nervous that I'd lose my inspiration, or want to go hang out in the wilderness, or spend too much time online or on the phone with my family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I rearranged the furniture in the place I was staying, to better serve my needs and help keep the place from getting trashed. This is the <i>before</i> photo:</span><br />
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many ways, it was like the other retreats had been: quiet, away from my
life and all the to-dos and caring for others. But there was no staring
out the window this time, no whiling away. </span></span><br />
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my butt off. I had so much creative energy flowing that I hardly slept,
and when I was awake, I hardly noticed my tiredness.</span> I had THE. BEST. time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I resolved to do at least a page in my sketch book each day. The first photo, above, was my "intro" to that project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I reveled in the time I could take to actually LOOK and SPEND TIME with the art books I brought with me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I wanted to really look at some figurative work--who in the past had done it, and how? I found myself completely inspired by Josef Albers, who was not at all famous for his figures. Surprisingly, a book of his drawings included many figures, which is what moved me. Egon Schiele is a famous artist who drew men in vulnerable poses, and Gustav Klimt loved to draw figures. In a NYC exhibit the Neue Galerie did in fall 2016, it was noted that he would take breaks from painting his subjects just so he could go in the room next door to draw figures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To focus my creative energy, I decided to focus on a self-portrait <i>from life</i>, something I had never done, and also to make something for the upcoming Fort Collins Open Hang show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I spent about 5-6 hours in this position. Drawing from life is much harder than drawing from a photograph, but this is how the artists-of-yore did it. I wanted to see what it was like to focus on the details of <i>myself</i> so intently. It was pretty fun. Challenging but fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Something that never occurred to me before doing this exercise was that<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i> </i></span><i>actually,</i> I drew a mirror image of myself! Before artists could take photos of themselves, when they only had mirrors to utilize, they painted the mirror images of themselves. Every self-portrait ever made is actually a mirror image of the artist. That seemed particularly mind-boggling in the moment. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's how she's ended up, for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I got to work on whatever it was I was going to put in the Open Hang. I had taken photos of models past, and a long-ago pose kept bouncing around in my head. Plus, I was inspired by a sketch book exercise I'd done over a collage, inspired by Gustav Klimt. So I got to work collaging a big'ol piece of construction paper with tons of long-collected 2-D ephemera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I ate, I drank tea, I went outside and walked around to get some fresh air and movement for half an hour each day. But otherwise, this is what I did. You can see my inspiration wall between the windows. The space's natural light was heavenly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's me at the end of that fervent day (rosy-cheeked, elated), and you can see the collaged piece on the easel in the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before I finished my retreat, I manage to get some blue paint on it, but alas! My time had come to an end. Time to pack up and head home, back to the real world. I cleaned up, re-packed the car (which hadn't been driven the whole time), and moved the furniture back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was in no rush to get home after the designated "check out" time, so I decided to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">drive</span> to Denver to visit the art museum. I've been there several times since I became a member three years ago and it feels like home every single time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As and end to my retreat, I decided to "do what the artists do" when they go to museums: draw. I grabbed a stool, took out my sketchbook and pencils, and plopped right down in front of one of DAM's most beloved paintings in their permanent collection, <i>Childhood Idyll</i>, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1900.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd never done this before but had always wanted to. Turns out it was SO cool. I focused intently on the face of one of the figures and very much enjoyed the simple act of drawing, but to my surprise, i found that I also enjoyed bearing witness to <i>other people's</i> experience of the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Oh honey, this is the painting I wanted you to see..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"This piece reminds me of..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Isn't that just lovely?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the most part, people let me be, respectful or bemused by my presence and my intentions, interested in my drawing nearly as much as they were in the painting itself. It occurred to me that here, in an art museum, is one of the few places in our culture where it is 100% acceptable (and even revered) to be an artist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After having spent 5 days on my own and arting like there was no tomorrow, doing this seemed like the normal thing to do. I felt so much like the artist I am, 100%. I was accepted, not judged. The question didn't occur to anyone there that this wasn't a perfectly good way for an adult to be spending her time on a Thursday afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I rarely get this. While my dream is to make art all the time, I am distracted by the routine of daily life, the relationships I hold so dear and work hard to nurture, and the fact that I need/want money<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in order</span> to fund all my other zillion interests. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And there is judgment. Society doesn't hold "the artist" as an acceptable occupation. As </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bren</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">é</span></span> Brown once joked, lamenting the way creativity gets squashed out of young people as they advance through school, "You go on and do your A-R-T. I'll just get on with my J-O-B."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the last twenty minutes<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> spent </span>in front of the Bouguereau painting, I heard a timid, "You're a really good drawler."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I looked up to find a little girl, roughly ten years old, with a striped gray t-shirt dress and braids of red hair looking at me. As I'd been drawing, I'd noticed her little shoes through the crook of my elbow while she hovered near me for at least ten minutes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I said, "Thanks. I practice a lot."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found myself utterly delighted to get to engage with her, so happy to "talk shop." </span>We <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">d<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">iscussed</span></span> the painting itself and how my drawing might improve. She was shy but curious, which had bolstered her courage to say something to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She reminded me of me. I myself had always had an admiration a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nd</span> reverence for people who made art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, look at me now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's <i>Male Figure, Twisted</i>, as it hung in the Open Hang show a week later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my <a href="http://artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2017/07/what-kind-of-tedium-do-you-like.html" target="_blank">last post</a> I concluded that I don't think printmaking is quite for me in the long run. But if you read that post to the very end, you were left hanging, and with an * no less! There was <i>one</i> thing I really loved: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_printing" target="_blank">relief printing</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found the the complex process of relief to be something I really enjoyed thinking about. There was also more instant gratification than I'd had in intaglio printing. The lino cut piece took just one week, much of it in class! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even though it took a month to complete </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the woodblock</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> design (and that was working on it what felt like day and night), the steps throughout were highly rewarding, and it was great to finally use some color ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think the aspect of it that I liked most was that even though it was hard physical work (and there was some noise too, when </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I broke out the Dremel</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">), linoleum and wood were softer, generally quieter materials and the only chemical required was ink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our assignment: to somehow use animal imagery in a way that meaningfully connected with our heritage or background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hooley the Dog is the only animal I've ever loved in my life, and it turns out that Paul and I happen to own chickens and bees too! So that's where I started, along with a sense of humor (all we need is a goat!), inspired by vintage dishtowels and other chicken art I've made in the last year, and with the desire to integrate text into this project somehow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">developing my idea</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> with <a href="http://art.colostate.edu/people/profiles/plastini/" target="_blank">my instructor Johnny</a>, I got to thinking about how chicken farming was what sustained my mom's family as she was growing up in the 50s and 60s. So I texted my aunt, who was really involved on the chicken farm as a kid, and who has taken the concept of farming to a different level on her own large California acreage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There seemed to be a thread of farming, for various reasons and in various ways, in my very own family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I drew the above image onto an 18"x30" piece of plywood, and once it was finalized, covered it in shellac to use as a guide throughout the carving and printing process. The first task was to cut away the parts that I wanted to be the color of the paper, white.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I covered it in cream-colored ink and printed 7 prints, five on cotton paper and two on cotton fabric (dishtowel theme).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I wiped off the cream-colored ink from the wood and started carving away all the stuff I wanted to remain cream on the final print. This meant carving away most of the background, which took several hours. I managed to listen to the entirety of the excellent podcast <a href="https://stownpodcast.org/" target="_blank">S-Town</a> over the course of a week while carving, carving, carving. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was thinking ahead to the next color: yellow. Looking at my original drawing, there are only a few things I wanted to be yellow: the chicken's legs, the bees wings, and the flowers dotting the background. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Between each color stage it was more about carving the right stuff </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">off</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> while advancing through my color palette. I had to think ahead <i>and</i> behind at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Between each layer of ink, the prints had to dry overnight. A perfect time to carve more of the woodblock!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The biggest successes are the orange tree and the border (reminiscent of this <a href="http://artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2015/11/hours-and-hours.html" target="_blank">blanket project</a> I did two years ago in Fibers), and the fact that I managed to keep all the words in tact while carving (hand slippage is very common--you'll notice the dates were scrapped).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I loved that this was the last part of our class, a high note for me to end on. Not only did woodblock relief printing boost my art confidence back up, but it redeemed printmaking overall for me in a meaningful way. I excelled at this process, my professor and TA were very encouraging, and I felt like I spiritually connected my grandfather (note the carving on the tree), aunt, and husband through the common interests we all had/have: the life and work and fun of a farm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thought, as a final nod to this topic on my blog, here are some of the other students' prints from this project. Post a comment or send me an email if you'd like to know who made these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last spring semester, I took a printmaking class at the university. I wanted to take it because I never could <i>quite</i> understand it. Prints, I mean. I'd seen them in museums and wondered--how is that done? What is the process? What about it is artful? I'll admit that I didn't think printmaking was <i>all that.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now that I've spent 16 weeks learning it, well, I definitely UNDERSTAND it. More than that, I think it is pretty amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So why might I title this post <i>Tedium</i>?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Preparing the zinc plate for intaglio means <br />beveling the edges with a file, polishing them,<br /> and taking off the protective plastic layer. <br />(Snacks are always close by.)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It has something to do with the fact that this was the hardest studio art class I've ever taken. It's not that the techniques were all that hard, although because I'd never done anything like it before, it <i>was</i> actually harder than usual, especially to attain the standard I'm used to achieving. More than anything, it was the challenge of the process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a post not so much about what I learned about printmaking, but what I learned about <i>myself </i>because of printmaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first technique we learned was called dry point. After you prepare the zinc plate, you take an engraving tool, a scraper, and other mark-making tools to "draw" a design straight onto the metal. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This image was inspired by the 40th birthday party <br />I'd just had, where several of my friends brought <br />tons of delicious things and lined up <br />the crock pots all in a row.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like I said, this whole concept of art-making was completely new to me, so preparing the plate and drawing a backwards image with a metal tool went pretty slow. It was taxing on the body (drawing into metal doesn't have the same ease of flow as drawing on paper, no matter the tool!). The studio was always loud with everyone scraping on their plates and air vents on all the time. There was metal dust and the smells of motor oil and India ink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yep, this is the semester that I learned how <strike>freaking</strike> sensitive I am. In fact, I found myself seeking comfort and constantly second-guessing myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It wasn't until the third technique that I finally saw a place for me in all this sharpness and hardness and chemicals and noise: soft ground. Finally, a nod to softness and nuanced texture! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I made this texture collage in my studio at home, talking on the phone with a friend for part of the time and with my speakers playing Amazon Prime's "Liquid Mind" station (yep) the other part of the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Instead on focusing on the visual aesthetic of color and print, I looked at all my materials solely for their textural components. I saw my art room completely anew, totally fresh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With this technique you press your design into a softer wax coating onto the plate, then let the acid do its work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our final intaglio technique was aquatint. For this one, you have to think backwards, working from light to dark, and it offers a way to do value and tone. I actually like this technique very much on a hypothetical level. I really enjoy challenging thinking processes in art. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a photo of some of my printmaking classmates/friends, who loved talking about art and were smiley and encouraging along the way: Mac, Taylor, Zach, and Erin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am <i>so</i> grateful to have learned how to do it. My art context has expanded exponentially. Now, I UNDERSTAND printmaking. And I have so much respect for the artists who love it and focus on it, and strive to be excellent at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And yet for me, printmaking was simply not soft enough, not quiet enough, and too darn smelly. There was a "this takes forever" component in the process that wasn't satisfying enough for me. There wasn't enough instantly-gratifying progress (no matter how small) as I proceeded through the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Indeed, I declared a fibers concentration this semester. Not that there <i>isn't</i> a certain amount of tedium in weaving or dyeing or hand stitching. It's just that for some reason, my personality and sensibilities don't mind that kind of tedium as much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As a last hurrah* to printmaking, in case you're wondering how to get the print from the zinc plate to the paper, I made this 3:33 minute video showing the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Well, there was one thing I actually really liked in printmaking (relief printing), but I'll blog about that in the next post. :)</span></div>
<br />HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-24074816125261471332017-07-20T15:35:00.002-07:002017-07-20T15:44:40.903-07:00Celebrating 10 Years: HLM Cardswap<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the 10th year in a row, the <i>6 Degrees of HLM Cardswap</i> was a huge success! Thanks to the 29 participants, we had a robust year of card-making, with creativity and fun times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Starting with the Big Picture, here are 290 cards--wow!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Siri, a loyal card swap participant from previous years, actually loves the swap so much that she decided to arrange a contingent of the swap in her home town of State College, PA. She recruited six of her crafty friends, and they got together at a local makery to have an Art Party of their very own, on the same day we had our Card Swap work party here in Colorado! Here are some great photos of their time together, and their cards are below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Siri used some old international postage stamps as her inspiration: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Katie O. did some lovely watercolors:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Erica used watercolor too, but a totally different style:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each of Bec's cards was a unique acrylic & ink painting:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Amy F. used layers and collaged her cards:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back in Fort Collins, Sue participated once again, using her corrugated cardboard to play on the <b>line</b> theme, and each flower has <b>ten</b> petals:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shari also played on both themes, with <b>ten</b> birds placed on two clothes <b>lines</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Katie J. used some old slides from her mom's hall closet collection to create </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">interactive </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cards. She also made her ten cards at the time that she had just given birth to her third child, and got them in before the deadline! I think she deserves extra kudos for that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I delivered Marge's cards to her last year, she was so excited to do it again. You can see that she used several decorative papers with <b>lines</b> as part of their design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Haley used both themes, using <b>ten lines</b> of paper to create her cards:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These are my cards, and I drew six different designs based on the theme of <b>ten</b>. I googled "ten" and brainstormed ways to turn the results into cards one might actually send.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've known Cydney for four years and finally she had the time (in her last semester of college?) to participate in the swap. She used <b>lines</b> to graphically design a butterfly. She also printed a lot of extras, so some of you got 11 cards instead of ten this year--a fun bonus!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Andrea's first time in the swap was exciting, something she's not ever done before. She was inspired by a card I made for the <a href="http://artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2012/05/2012-card-swap-cards.html" target="_blank">2012 swap</a> and used tons of fun supplies in my studio at the work party to make the design her own, incorporating the <b>line</b> theme. She went from no idea of what to do to twelve cards in 4 hours. Amazing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for our other out-of-towners, Jenn has moved to Germany and she immediately thought of sheet music when she heard what the themes were. <b>Ten lines</b> in treble and bass clef! She and her 1-year old found some old music, watercolored them, then cut-em-up and collaged them into new music/love designs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Speaking of international participants, Ambra from Toronto also participated. We had a Skype work party after the in-person work party was over, and you can see the original collage that she turned into prints for her cards. Unbelievably, her first batch got lost in the mail. Oh no!! So she made a whole nother batch and they arrived JUST IN TIME:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year provided another first for the HLM card swap: our first kid participant! Bronwyn is Jennifer's daughter, aged 8. She has participated in helping her mom make cards in previous years, but seemed ready to make the commitment to doing ten of her own cards this year. She came through with ten unique drawings:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least, my step-mom Nancy lives in Portland. She played on the recent coloring phenomenon Zentangles to create "<b>ten</b>tangles." She hand drew these geometric designs that played on the number ten:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you again to everyone who participated. Please share this blog post far and wide, and use our hashtag anytime you refer to it. #hlmcardswap</span></div>
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HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-16172406735222227772017-03-18T13:55:00.000-07:002017-03-18T13:57:27.510-07:00Nude, With Headphones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The hot lights toasting your shoulders, the
concentration it takes to hold still for 20 minutes (or more), the pain you
might feel of your bones on a hard surface, just so the artist can have a good
visual.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The models I’ve worked with don’t deny these discomforts,
but they keep coming back again to sit for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Headphones provide all of us a way to retreat, to build a
wall of sorts. Whatever’s playing (podcast, rockin’ tunes, guided meditation) takes
our minds away from the world we are physically in, whether to provide a
distraction or an escape, or to just keep people from talking to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Models don’t typically wear headphones when they model. In
fact they wear absolutely nothing while working for artists. It can be a
vulnerable experience, but also, comfortable. Still. Peaceful. Quiet. Intimate,
in a way. No need to say anything. No need to be anyone except their physical
selves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Standing nude in front of people is to take off the headphones,
or take down the wall. It’s to be present. It’s to be with yourself, in a quiet
space, while also participating in the artistic process. The only noise is
what’s rattling around in your head. It is still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This art piece, by the way, is entitled <i>Nude, With Headphones</i>, 36"x24", acrylic, charcoal, and collage on canvas. My first experiment in trying to meld my old ways with my newfound interest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are interested in learning more about becoming an art model, please contact me (email address to the right, or find Parsley Art Studio on Facebook). As you may know, I am particularly interested in working with men, age 30 or older, any size, any shape. Consider joining me in the artistic process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd never have guessed it back in 2007, but the <i>6 Degrees of HLM</i> Card Swap has been happening for 10 years now! To celebrate, what better thing to do but <i><b><u>swap again</u></b></i>!!!!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sign up <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/P1xyze8QgqHveS5k1" target="_blank">here</a> to say you'll join in!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Make 10 cards of your own--they can be ten unique designs or all the same</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Attend the Card Swap Work Party if you'd like company while you work</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enjoy yourself immensely while you be creative</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Deliver your cards to me by April 10</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Receive 10 cards in return to use as you please throughout the year!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"ten" (seemed too obvious not to do it!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"line"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take the themes as literally or figuratively as you'd like, or don't even use them at all. I offer them to provide just a little guidance for your design. </span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are the dates:</span></u><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let me know you're participating by <b>Feb 25 </b>(latecomers are welcome, though!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Come to the Work Party on Sunday, <b>April 2</b>, anytime between 1-5pm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Postmark or deliver your cards to me by Monday, <b>April 10</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Sometime in May </b>you get your cards delivered to you!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2016/05/2016-card-swap-revealed.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see the fabulous cards from last year's swap!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please forward this invitation to anyone crafty you know! I think there will even be an entire card swap contingent participating in Pennsylvania this year (exciting). We love new folks and returners alike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope you'll join in!</span>HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-67951241774832746422016-11-21T22:45:00.003-08:002016-11-21T22:50:41.493-08:00Obsessed With Figure Drawing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am going to write about drawing the human figure. Again. Yes, I've been absent from the blog for months, and yes, I’ve
already written about it several times. I must admit something to you, fair
reader. The truth is, I have become obsessed. With the human form, and the male one at that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As a last drawing project of the semester in April, we “went
big” during our warm-ups and then did a collaborative mural project, drawing
our figures from a live male model, only our second male of the semester. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here’s a photo of my first ever large-as-life drawing (after 25 minutes) and an
in-progress of our mural that resulted from his fine modeling over those three
days:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During this short time, I came to realize how much more
interesting it is for me to draw people who are not college-aged and, well,
“perfect.” In my art explorations over the summer at several art museums (most
notably in New York City), I pondered this as I saw painting after painting of these
young “perfect” women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s not fair to say they’re boring, even though that’s
the first word that pops into my mind. Their bodies are fine. But where is the
nuance? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When looking at a man, where are the landmarks to help get it right?
Where, in the classical art world, are older skin, age lines, and something else besides
Mr. Incredible’s V-shaped body type held up to be appreciated, especially of
men? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And, <i><u>I’m just going to
say it</u></i>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>What</u> combination of things in our western culture, over the course of
centuries, has made it so that breasts and vaginas are more acceptable to look
at than penises? How is it that it is so ingrained in us that one thing is
beautiful and the other not? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On top of that, in the USA in particular, why
does nudity have to mean sex? And since we’re going there anyway, why then must
we be so ashamed as humans, of being sexual beings?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m not saying let’s celebrate the male form as something
better or more important than the female form. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I <i>am</i> saying that we should notice the ordinary, acknowledge inherent
beauty and nuance, think of it as enough, and not shy away from our body parts
in revulsion or feel shame for even wanting to look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of that fateful semester, I was contacted by the
model, asking if he could have one of my warm-up drawings. When I told him how
much cooler it had been to draw him than most of the other models over the
semester, it impacted him in a way that moved me. Later, he asked if I might be
willing to draw him again, for a commission. Um, well that was a no-brainer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wanted to go deeper. To understand what it’s like for a
man to stand there in the nude, to make it comfortable for him, to address
moments of what I might call human-ness. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Luckily, my model was willing to go
there too. As we arranged logistics and figured out how to set up a
figure-drawing space in my studio, we talked about vulnerability and masculinity
and body shapes and identity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To prepare for our art-making sessions—I was getting paid
for this after all—I went to the open figure drawing night each week at the
uni. Practice practice practice. (Samples, below.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I bought several
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The day the model arrived, we talked about composition. He
wanted to be portrayed as open, confident, still, and quiet. Shoulders to
knees. I made a suggestion and we practiced it. I put a sign on my front door:
“Do not disturb, Thursday, 8-11am.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then we dived right in to modeling and
drawing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over the course of making this drawing, I came to appreciate
the model even more. He didn’t talk so I could concentrate on drawing. He held
still, even when his shoulders hurt or he was tired. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During breaks we’d sit on
the platform and chat. We became friends. I wanted to honor him and his
willingness to be in a very intimate space with a woman who wasn’t his life
partner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Important note</u>: we talked about this! We intentionally
included our spouses in the whole thing, which made for an incredibly trusting
and safe environment and allowed us to do the work we wanted to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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He sat for me for about 4 hours in total.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People always ask me, “What kind of art do you do?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a hard question for me to answer, since I do so many
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lately, my answer has been, “Well, I’m really into figure
drawing right now.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>This is an understatement</u>. When I say that, what I am
not saying is how much I loooooove it. It capitalizes on my callings to be in
relationship with people <u>and</u> to make art. <i>I am in relationship while in art.</i> To meld these two things in one
project is glorious. It is tapping into the best Heather Matthews that I can
see exists in this universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Figure drawing has also made me ‘art’ like crazy these last
couple months. All I want to do is draw in my free time (thus, the blogging has
gone by the wayside). I’ve never felt that compulsion for such as steady period
of time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’ve already got another male model lined up to draw in December. </span></div>
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got an idea in mind for a show once I make enough drawings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">’m trying to build
a more permanent platform in my studio for the model. </span></div>
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big paper and wondering where in my studio I’ll put it if it outsizes my easel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Considering my interest in fibers (weaving/dying/stitching), now I’m thinking
about how I can meld the two, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is the completed drawing, or at least most of it. (Thanks
to <i>The Simpsons</i> for inspiration for this photo.) I want to be sensitive to the
world we live in now, the one which sometimes can’t handle the Full Monty. </span></div>
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enchilada, said, “It’s like getting to really look at a man, like I’ve never
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Objectifying vs. honoring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Intimate art spaces</span></div>
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HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-8042140024135785922016-07-01T14:36:00.002-07:002016-07-01T14:40:27.121-07:00A Human Figure in HLM's Work?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 2016 Fort Collins Studio Tour was last weekend!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to the more than 70 people to visited my studio. It was my pleasure to have you stop by. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is me standing next to the piece I made for the gallery show for the Tour. The piece is called "In A Bind" and it is the first time I've ever used the human figure in my art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Making a figurative piece was not my plan. Late one night I was drawing thumbnails in my sketchbook, and out of many I drew, this one spoke the most to me. I was planning to start abstract, and let the piece get me to where it wanted to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of you saw me set up this piece on Facebook, but if you didn't, here is the video:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a day of work, this is where I ended up:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it just because I've been drawing the human figure for four months that I saw a torso emerge in this? I had to go there. A few days later, this is how it ended:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been trying to delve deeper into my heart in my art-making, and this piece communicates a lot of things that have been in my heart the last few months. I would be happy to elaborate on this piece to anyone who's curious about its meaning to me--just email me (email address is at right). But I wonder, does it have meaning for you?</span>HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-63740883832974870692016-07-01T12:50:00.004-07:002016-07-01T12:59:09.116-07:00Reflections On My Figure Drawing Class<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I loved the figure drawing class I took in the spring. Loved with a capital L. Loved like I want to marry it. Loved like I'm in withdrawal now that it's over. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hands and feet studies (you can see my hands drawing <a href="http://artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-human-figure-and-politics-of-nudity.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Self portrait (you can see mine <a href="http://artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2016/02/microexpressions-identity.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still life with model</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Honestly, I could do an entire blog post about each thing. (Indeed, I have about two of them already.) Instead of talking about each thing, I want to talk about my takeaways. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(FYI--all of these drawings are mine, from these projects, with exception of the very last photo, which is duly credited there. Click on any image for a close-up.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've said it before: in our culture, "artist" is not considered a legitimate profession to aspire to once one is of the age to start making some actual career decisions. <a href="http://brenebrown.com/" target="_blank">Brené Brown</a> once made a joke about how people might say: "Well, you go ahead, dear, with your A-R-T, and I'll get on with my J-O-B!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amymisurellisorensen.com/" target="_blank">Amy Misurelli Sorenson</a> is a visiting artist at Colorado State University. It was recommended to me that I take figure drawing from her. I consider this to have been divine intervention. The way she approaches drawing is as if it <u>is</u> her right hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She told a story of when she was working 60 hour weeks in a gallery and she'd come home exhausted, with no more energy to give and all she'd want to do is <i>sit at her kitchen table and draw</i>. Not go to bed, not watch TV, not veg on the couch. Drawing is <u>in</u> her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you view her <a href="http://www.amymisurellisorensen.com/" target="_blank">website</a>, you'll see that she pushes people out of their comfort zones with her drawings, prints, photos, and even performance art. As an instructor, she asked us, even demanded that get out of our comfort zones. She insisted that we draw well from observation. During critique, she was honest, didn't sugar coat, and asked people to push themselves even more beyond what they'd done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even if cell phone selfies have "put artists out of a job," people of this day and age will still pay for a drawn or painted portrait, illustrations of anatomy, animation (think of the thousands of animated videos that exist in the world).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Taking figure drawing with Amy legitimized drawing for me in a new way, and legitimized the value of the human figure to me even more. Before this class, I was intimidated to draw a human, whether just a part of it, like the face, or the entire thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was surprised when I said to my model for the still life (second image in this post) that drawing <i>her</i> was <u>not at all</u> what I was worried about. It was the space around her, the other objects, her comfort, and my paper choice that I was concerned most about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even our figurative artist presentations were more rewarding than I thought they would be. First, I was able to explore the life and art of an artist I have long admired: <a href="http://www.hungliu.com/" target="_blank">Hung Liu</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Liu is a figurative oil painter who lives in the Bay Area. She even taught at <a href="http://www.mills.edu/" target="_blank">Mills College</a> when I was there in the late 90s (missed opportunity!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is a photo I took in 2015 of one of Liu's paintings, called Shoemakers, made in 1999. It is owned by the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, CA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the students in my class did brief presentations about other contemporary figurative artists, and right away this information paid off when I went to the Seattle Art Museum in mid-May, only to see in-person original paintings by <a href="http://kehindewiley.com/" target="_blank">Kehinde Wiley</a>, <a href="http://www.davidsallestudio.net/" target="_blank">David Salle</a>, and <a href="http://www.ericfischl.com/" target="_blank">Eric Fischl</a>. These are <i>living</i> contemporary figurative artists, making a buck by making art. Moreover, all of these artists communicate and create in ways that include depicting the human figure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The significance of understanding this overwhelms me and causes me to believe that one day I, too, could make something that someone will pay for and shoot, maybe even put it in a museum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I said before, taking Figure <i>this</i> semester, with <i>this</i> instructor, with the skills I've built up over the last few years, and with the appreciation I have for art museums (newly found in just the last 4 years): divine intervention.</span>HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-11699116119732176662016-05-10T19:31:00.000-07:002016-05-10T19:31:32.495-07:002016 Card Swap Revealed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 2016 <i>6 Degrees of HLM</i> International Card Swap was a huge success in its 9th year! Thank you to everyone who participated--I hope you had a blast and that you'll join in again next year. Until then, here are photos of everyone's contributions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">28 people fulfilled their goal of making ten individual cards. Here they all are, 280 cards laid out on my freshly-swept living room floor:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The themes this year were either "surprise" or "text." Everyone had such a unique take on these ideas. Brittany, from Fort Collins, found words that were inspiring on the pages of a book. Using a tag template, she cut those places out and highlighted the words in colored pencil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Claudia (Fort Collins) found her inspiration in the stars. She matched up constellations to their noun in the dictionary, then used a pin to poke the constellation into the face of the card itself. Hold it up to light and you can see the constellation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I first met Gale (Fort Collins) a few years ago, I saved her contact info in my phone as as "Gale the sunflower painter." She certainly does other things, but for her first year in the swap, painted these beauts on the back of vellum then added details and highlights in copic marker and colored pencil on the opposite side of the paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gaye (Fort Collins) liked the shine of this origami paper and wanted to use it up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Haley (Fort Collins) painted the pages of the daily newspaper while at the Work Party in early April. Then she cut many varying sizes of flowers out to layer them into these flower designs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea for my cards came from the movie <i>Bright Star</i> (a most beautifully styled, artful film) and I got to use my fancy new Cricut Explore Air cutting machine to cut out all the parts. After they were cut, all I had to do was glue, fold, color, and distress. (Sorry, by the way for the tight-fitting envelopes!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jessica works and makes her art at Wolverine Publick House and Printing Press here in Fort Collins. This was her first year in the swap! She was fun to meet and her cards lent some honesty/humor to the sentiments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jessie (Fort Collins) came to the Work Party and found inspiration in a piece of paper that's been hanging in my studio for months. The paper is covered in hot air balloons. She took that theme and made each part of the image out of words. (See a fun photo of Jessie holding a potato cannon at the end of this post!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Kristin's first year in the swap. She lives in Longmont, CO, and worked so hard on her cards that she drove up to Fort Collins to hand-deliver the precious cargo, created out of fabric, dyed napkins, tea tags, and stickers. Labors of love! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I met Marge at a Fort Collins <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1582232762018114/" target="_blank">Hotdish</a> event this winter and we hit it off. When she told me that she'd recently tried out some new-to-her medium, I suggested she join in our swap. She went to town and made tons of cards. When I went to pick up her ten, she showed me a <i>cupboard</i> full of cards! When I went back to deliver her kitty, she said that just in that short space of time, her "style" had developed. Can't wait to see next year's contributions!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Tara's first year in the swap. She's from Centennial, CO, but about to move to Hawaii! She found inspiration in both themes, so decided to make five of each. The tree design was a pop up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrea (Fort Collins) joked about how the Happy Birthday vellum has popped up in her cards for at least three years. She liked the extra challenge of making pop-up cards, and making them so large helped use up a lot of her supplies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anne is from Seattle and has used fortunes in her cards before. I was amazed that to make these, she must have collected hundreds, especially as the fortunes chosen for each card seemed to relate to each other in a quirky way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Annie (Fort Collins) made her adorable fiber collages and threw in some meaningful words to accompany them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ambra (Toronto) embellished some cute owl cards, which got caught up in customs because of the feathers!! Nothing liquid, fragile, perishable, or hazardous here, people! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joanne is my new next door neighbor here in the Fort. This print-out of tulips is of a painting she did from a photograph of some tulips in her garden! Inside, there is a fun play on words (think: two lips); she says if you want to change the message, you can! The message is written on chalkboard paper with chalkboard pen. You can just wipe it away and write a new message with such a pen, $3 at Michael's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Katie (Fort Collins) made this bee-on-a-flower with a hand-cut stencil and watercolors. The bee spins around on its flower. Inside: Happy B-day! Haha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sarah (from San Diego) participated this year for the first time and her cards cleverly incorporated <i>both </i>themes. The text on the fronts was endearing, and inside you find a removable bookmark to remind a friend of how great you think they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Siri (College Town, PA) has an eye for fabrics! She used some of her scraps to make these heart cards and the surprise: heart confetti to be included in the envelope!</span></div>
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<br />HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-18707370058700870252016-03-10T12:56:00.002-08:002016-03-10T13:11:03.378-08:00Wearing Your Identity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In my last post, you saw my self-portrait drawing in which I was depicted wearing a button referencing my non-parent identity. That project got me to thinking about how identity develops within us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As children, we don't go around saying things to other kids like, "I come from poverty," or "I am a feminist," or "I am a disabled person," or "I am Hispanic," and then gravitate toward others who say those same things. As children, we haven't learned to understand how those identities affect us, and so we're left to navigate social situations without that context. Sometimes I long for that. Challenging in a different way, yes, but in other ways easier. Innocent. Simple. Kids make concessions for things with a shrug. They see the "different" thing and in many cases, adjust without a second thought in order to move on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Awareness of our identities develops as we become adults, when we reap the benefits of our privilege or experience the frustrations of prejudice. As a specific identity rises to the forefront, suddenly we find ourselves making decisions based around it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some people identify so strongly with one group that <i>every</i> situation is viewed through that lens. Chris Rock's recent performance at the 88th Annual Academy Awards is a good example of this. It happens to me too. ALL THE FLIPPIN' TIME, I consider (and judge) the world through my lens of gender and feminism. It is so prevalent that I no longer notice it. It is automatic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which is why I loved the book <i>Bad Feminist</i> by Roxane Gay. (<a href="http://www.roxanegay.com/bad-feminist/" target="_blank">Read the book</a>!!!!!! Her writing is exquisite. But if you want, here is a link to <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/roxane_gay_confessions_of_a_bad_feminist?language=en" target="_blank">her 11-minute TED talk</a> on the same topic.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the time I was reading <i>Bad Feminist</i>, I was working on a fibers project that was to be inspired by an object. Since the book was so prevalent in my thoughts, I couldn't imagine being inspired more by any other object than that. So I used the color palette of the book design as my source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I shuttled my bobbin through the loom, I thought about how weaving seems such a good analogy to identity. My experience as a (white) woman and a feminist is different than another woman who identifies the same way. Were she to make a scarf, she might pick different colors, a different length or width, a different pattern, and still call it the same thing I've entitled mine: a "Bad Feminst Scarf."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Weaving speaks </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">also </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">to intersections. Look closely at the piece and you can see every thread intersecting with a thousand others. While they may touch each other and connect in that way, they are individual pieces of varying identities themselves: long, short, cotton, polyester, stretchy, fuzzy, soft, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Identity is not a simple thread of unbleached non-stretchy 100% cotton. It is complex and intertwined with other identities. Intersectionality is another whole expanded conversation, but Roxane Gay goes there (and does it well) and I am changed for the perspective and insights her book brought me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her message: it is ok to claim a specific identity, even if you're not the "perfect" (by whose definition, anyway?) manifestation of it. You can call yourself a feminist <u>and</u> still shave your legs, love men, and like the color pink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I presented these thoughts to my classmates, </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I wrapped my "Bad Feminist Scarf" around me. And there it was:</span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> I was literally wearing my identity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So when the idea popped up again in my self portrait last week, an image of me wearing a pin, almost like claiming my presidential candidate, it spurred a bigger idea. I want to explore identity more in my work, and wearing it seems an interesting take on the topic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A last note: I must admit that sometimes I feel burdened by my feminist lens, and thank goodness Roxane Gay writes about a similar feeling. A democrat friend recently told me she knows a Republican who says, "Democrats are always so sensitive!" When I heard this, I had to laugh. This is a truth for me for sure. Speaking up for those who are in some way disadvantaged because of circumstances out of one's control is so important, to be sure. But do I need to ruminate incessantly about patriarchy in our culture or constantly call people out or even declare someone a bad person for being a product of this culture and therefore saying/doing something that is sexist or gender boxing? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Call me a bad feminist, but if I can just take a minute to breathe/calm down/chuckle at myself, and even let the moment pass, I boost my resilience for when the moment is right and it's more important to speak to issues that matter to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact, self portraits are what selfies used to be. Our instructor recently stated, "Selfies have put artists out of a job!" Before the invention of the camera (and of course even afterwards too), artists slaved over artistic images of themselves for hours, manipulating paint or collage or marble or whatever medium, along with the use of a mirror, to encapsulate the essence of the self. I tell you now: even with a camera as an extremely helpful modern-day tool, the self portrait continues to demand several hours and focused intentions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Microexpressions are a phenomenon which were introduced to the world at large in the 2009-11 TV show <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/" target="_blank">Lie to Me</a>. </i>In this show, an expert could read the slightest change in facial expressions and interpret them in a way that led to to solving crimes. I found the show fascinating and indeed, agreed that there was something to the idea. I had no idea until I tried to draw myself. Microexpressions <u>DO</u> exist, people!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a fantastic Fort Collins artist, <a href="http://haleyhasler.com/home.html" target="_blank">Haley Hasler</a>, who uses self portrait almost exclusively in her work to explore truth and imagination, whimsy and earnest. I've puzzled over this channel of artistic expression for years--that is, until now. Now that I've made a self portrait, I finally understand the appeal. I almost feel as addicted to the idea of making more self portraits as I was to that TV show!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What a very complex topic 'identity' is! Our self portrait assignment was to incorporate identity in some way. As I sat with myself for so many hours, my most prominent identity of the day--being a non-parent--is what kept coming to mind. What face could I possibly depict that would show all the feelings that accompany the way I engage with the world around my experience of this identity?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I tried several faces. I think I took about a hundred selfies. Once I picked ones that I <i>think</i> showed what I was feeling, the drawings of those selfies manifested in ways that were and were not always so successful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To claim any one identity is to deeply explore the various facets of that identity. I am lucky and grateful that I live in a time and place where I have the choice at all as to whether to have children. The choice was a challenging one to make and the process took me several years. Once I made the choice, the reaction of my community (friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and strangers) added an entire, often unexpected layer to the experience. These reactions caused me to feel all sorts of feelings, from relief, smugness, validation, and a desire to advocate for others to make this choice for themselves to frustration and exasperation that my lived experience of womanhood might not be considered valid or as rewarding or meaningful or even purposeful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To delve into this experience, this claim of being child-free, and to share my experience with you, took some courage. The last thing I want is to alienate anyone. Instead, I want to talk about things. I want to engage in dialogue about your experience and mine. Both matter; one is not better or worse than the other. But this is my truth, and I am emboldened by having taken this step to put it out there in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><b>1.</b> After I hear from everyone who wants to participate and I give you the signal, you'll have 7 weeks to make ten (10) greeting cards, most often somewhat identical in design (although this is not required). These cards can be any shape or size, blank on the inside, themed... wherever your whimsy takes you. Every medium is welcome: fabric, stamping, painting, beads, collage, photography, papercraft.... Most important is that whatever you make fits into an envelope that can be mailed either domestically or abroad.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"></span><b style="line-height: 18.2px;">THEME: </b><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> This year's theme can be either "surprise" or "text."</span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"> By "surprise," you can be literal if you'd like, but my idea for this theme is based on wanting to surprise the recipient with some aspect of the card. For "text" I mean something that integrates text into your design. You could pick one alphabet letter or word and build a design around it, or do like you may have seen me do several times and have words embedded in the background. Be creative! Interpret as loosely as you need to. (And if you're totally uninspired, just throw the theme out the window and do what you want!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>2.</b> On or before the given postmark deadline, you'll send all the cards you make to me with enough envelopes for each card and five dollars. When you sign up, there is also a way to pay electronically if you prefer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>3.</b> Once I receive everyone's cards, I'll divvy them up so that every person receives ten cards from other swap participants. Using your moola, I'll send them back to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>4.</b> You'll receive a set of handmade greeting cards to use over the next year in the mail for a limited cost and a ton of fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">· RSVP to participate in the card swap by clicking <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/0bMxzEPrgW" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">· <b>Monday, April 4</b> is the postmark date for getting those cards, enough corresponding envelopes, and cash (if you didn't pay electronically) in the mail to me. (If you're local, you obviously don't have to bother with the sending business--we'll just rendezvous!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please <b>DO</b> forward this invitation to any of your crafty or arty friends and have them <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/0bMxzEPrgW" target="_blank">sign up here</a> if they'd like to participate. <b>Anyone is welcome</b> (even if card-making is not your main means of artistic expression!). My only request is that everyone who signs up follows through to make/swap their cards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For inspiring close-up images from last year, click <a href="http://www.artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2015/05/card-swap-2015.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-84969852941811407092016-02-06T14:58:00.000-08:002016-02-06T15:10:04.237-08:00The Human Figure and The Politics of Nudity<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who knew that drawing the human figure would be so interesting? The politics (for lack of a better word) of being in the same room as a nude model are fascinating, the exploration of drawing materials is curious and frustrating and demanding and surprisingly exciting all the same time, and the outcomes are rewarding, even on a bad drawing day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For me, having a nude model to observe is an <i>opportunity</i> like no other. When are we ever granted license to <u>stare without shame</u> upon the likes of another human in his/her most vulnerable physical state? In this scenario, I get to appreciate the body for what it is--its forms, shadows, and weight, how muscles move around bones, how light bounces off skin, the body's ability, its strength, its imperfections, and its beauty. I first <i>started</i> to appreciate this when my mom took us to the ballet when we were young. But this is a whole different level. Up close and personal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even if the model appears to be other than what our culture would consider the most beautiful, it is unpredictably empowering to see someone stand before us in what one might consider a compromising stance. Their seeming fearlessness and nonchalance gives me courage to be in the room with them and a confidence which allows me to think of my own body differently. Why should I feel modest or embarrassed? Whether I like it or not, no matter how much I consciously don't want it and seek to diminish it, no matter how feminist I declare myself to be, I have to admit that from time to time, self-consiousness about my non-Heidi-Klum body prevails. But standing five feet from a disrobed person and being granted permission to gawk at them for hours helps me allot value to my own frame, more than I've ever allowed. What about the way <i>my</i> muscles move around my bones? What is the contour of my face? How would I represent just the tiniest curve of my elbow or the shadow on my back? How does my own breast fall differently on my chest than the model's? What <i>shape</i> does my hair have?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fun fact: models are paid an hourly wage, and so they should be--it's hard work! Have you ever tried to strike a pose and then not move? Try it for just a minute. Then try it for 5 or even 20. And if you need entertaining while you stand there, completely still, watch <a href="https://vimeo.com/141734077" target="_blank">this <i>fantastic</i> animated video</a> (4 min) about someone who takes the job very seriously. (I have watched it five times and lo-ove it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I first painted the nude figure in a painting class a few years ago, I found myself astonished at the experience itself of trying to represent the nude figure at all. My nervousness at the outset abated immediately when we were given just one minute to try to capture his pose. What? <i>One minute</i>??? It took a few 1-minute poses to get in the groove, but once I did, well... would you look at that? Strangely, I noticed that in my mind, the model had gone from a person to an object in a split second. Wow. Is that even ok? In art-making, I believe it is, <i>as long as</i> we don't treat the model as such!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Relatedly, an added component of being in a classroom full of mostly younger people (18-20 year-olds) in this circumstance is paying attention to <i>their</i> behaviors. F</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">oreign to me in this context, perhaps because I'm not in pursuit of a life partner, is the idea of sex. Before that split-second shift from human-to-object, are some classmates actually checking the model out?? The thought makes me chuckle under my breath and shake my head. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also, I have what I consider the advantage of more life experience, and indeed, I have seen more naked bodies just for having lived nearly twice as long as they have. With that comes maturity and, contrary to what I said about Heidi Klum before, slow (and deliberate!) acceptance of one's own body. I can't speak to what is going through the minds of my fellow drawers, but I can tell that some of them are uncomfortable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In college, I talked myself out of the art major--I told myself it had no real career value, after all. Right out of college in 2001, my best friend and I had standing art dates every week for months, but I wasn't an artist. When I lived abroad and worked part time, I relished in the extra time I had to make things, but I wasn't <i>really</i> an artist. When I was unemployed for four months in a new city in 2004, and I made everyone I know elaborate Christmas presents, well, I <i>guess</i> I was an artist. In grad school, <u>every</u> personality and career assessment I took for my career counseling class indicated that I am ARTISTIC over everything,<i> then</i> comes Social, <i>then</i> Realistic. (This is John Holland's RIASEC model for career counseling. It's great.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2008, I finally embraced the title. <u>I am an artist</u>! It took <i>at least</i> 14 years to identify myself that way. Sheesh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even then, sometimes I feel more legitimate than others. Examples of when I've really felt it: when I got business cards for the first time, when I made a flyer advertising a class I wanted to offer, when I made my first website, and each time I've been in the Fort Collins Studio Tour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last summer, Michelle Venus, the Development Director at our local radio station, <a href="http://www.krfcfm.org/" target="_blank">KRFC</a>, came to my studio. In a moment of not-so-confidence, I told her I wasn't sure I was ready to be on her show <i><a href="http://www.krfcfm.org/schedule/support-local-culture/" target="_blank">Support Local Culture</a></i>. This was her second visit to my studio and she practically begged me to believe in myself and my value to the arts community. It took me another five months of thinking about what she said, and hearing other artists I know and like on the show before I finally applied to be on. Today marks another moment when I can confidently say, "I am an artist." I am on the flippin' radio, talking about my art! A committee of three people agreed that I should be on the show! Holy smokes! I am an artist!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michelle put this lovely collage of my work together, and you can <i>definitely</i> see my style shine through. You can hear me talk about my work and what it is to be a "real artist" by clicking <a href="http://www.krfcfm.org/support-local-culture-heather-matthews/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some behind-the-scenes photos of our recording session. It was really cool.The whole thing took about 20 minutes. Michelle asked me a few questions, encouraging me to answer with full sentences since her words wouldn't be heard in the final piece. I loved the huge microphones and the quiet, quiet room. Headphones were optional for me.</span></div>
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<br />HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-16150691554094327842015-12-23T10:17:00.002-08:002015-12-23T11:00:10.489-08:00Bad Times, Good Times<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is it like to be an artist?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you know, this fall I took a fibers class at the University. Years ago, this is the class that inspired me to start taking studio classes at all, but it had what felt like a hundred prerequisites, so I only just got to take it this semester... finally! In this class, I had about a million + one epiphanies, one of them being that <i>being a professional artist is hard work</i>. My last post was related to this topic as well, but today I have a little more to share about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, indeed. There is controversy about this concept. Forgive me for any generalizations here, but there are many people, people who are not artists or art appreciators, who think that art-making is "fluff." That art-making is easy. That it doesn't take any special skills, or that a person who calls themselves an artist is just avoiding getting a "real job." Some people think that being an artist isn't a profession of value when compared to a doctor, lawyer, teacher/professor, scientist, factory worker, safety inspector, janitor, pilot, IT specialist, engineer, realtor, museum curator, government representative, etc etc etc. To be an artist means to lounge around, "dabbling" with materials and supplies for fun. As such, it is a constant <u>conversation</u> (I want to avoid the conflict-related word "battle") between serious artists and the world at large, not to mention between the serious artist and herself, about the value of art-making and the outcomes of art-making, and what that value translates to when it comes to getting paid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This class showed me just how hard it is to make something that is successful at expressing what I feel needs to be said, in a medium in which, despite what I <i>think</i> I know, I am actually a beginner. The benefit (or sometimes the curse) of taking a class is that one is given direction. What is there to be said, for example, in a 24" x 24" square of white cotton? How can it be altered to reflect your point of view? Oh, and please have it completed in ---(too short)--- amount of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walking into the class in August, I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder. I've been sewing for years. I interact with fabric in my work all the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But. Some days I found dyeing to be my nemesis. Setting up a loom to weave for the first time was intimidating--like learning a whole new language. The commitment I had to make to an idea from the beginning didn't always result in the most polished of pieces in the end. Pushing on in the fibers studio--when my back hurt from bending over the loom, or from standing so long on concrete floors, hands wrinkled and sensitive from water exposure and covered in color, or when I was frustrated because I wasn't getting results I'd hoped for, or </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when it was too cold or too hot thanks to the intermittent HVAC system there and I was </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">missing out on other things that matter to me, like time at home with my family and my couch and my not-so-bright lights--that was part of the hard work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was one moment when I doubted myself and ability so strongly, some part of my brain asked, "Who do you think you are?" (This is when I knew I had to call it a night. After a hot meal and a good night's sleep, I was lucky enough to get out of that space.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BUT THEN!!!! The good times! The benefits! The positive outcomes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For my final, I had a strong idea, the result of a sample I made serendipitously, without meaning to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project is called <i>Reflect. Connect.</i> I actually painted the yarn on the loom so I could have the colors I wanted.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When is the last time someone did something nice for you? How can you help to restore someone's faith in humanity?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When is the last time you had fun? How often do you play?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, here's a button, and on the other side a hole. Oh that person has one too. I wonder if they can connect? What's their prompt? What does that person have to say? Who are they?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The critique was slow at first (how can I invite people to touch them without putting a sign up that says "Please touch"?) but once the pouches came off their stand, the room lit up. Conversation, distraction, chatter, fun, interaction, reflection, connection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After class, one of my classmates said, "This is a highly successful project. It is absolutely functional, even though it's not wearable." (Many fiber art pieces <u>are</u> wearable and displayed on mannequins.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was on high for three days. Similar to the feeling a surgeon might have upon signing someone's hospital discharge papers after a successful complex surgery, I felt like I did something that mattered. I created something that didn't exist before and it affected and touched people in a positive way. I expressed my idea, that community and humanity are important and that art can facilitate them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just like in any profession, there are hard parts and there are great parts. Lucky for me, the good happens often enough, helping to build my resilience so that I am able to push through the hard parts. And, I <i>do</i> have fun! Who says it's not ok to have fun in your work? Who says lawyers don't have fun doing the research for their cases? That computer engineers don't love their work, even when something doesn't work? This is part of finding your career fit, that balance of hard work and having fun, and feeling like what you do matters, to you <u>and</u> to someone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Making what you need (and want) to make takes time. I mean it. Hours and hours and hours. And I can't just calculate the time it takes to make <u>one</u> project, either, since after I practice a little, I can often crank something out super fast. It's not just <i>the making</i> of a piece. It's the hours and hours it takes to <i>develop</i> the project. It's the time it took to learn the techniques that allow me to even get to the project development. It's <i>my education and experience and time and skills</i> all combined to make a single piece that I can show or sell or hang. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And then I'm asked to put a price on it that is in line with the current market, where things made abroad in assembly-line factories or by machines outprice me every time. Forgive me for voicing my discouragement (frustration? indignation?) on this matter. One realistic aspect of what it is to be an artist is to question: What is the value of my education, my trial and error, my acquired knowledge, my skills, and my time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The piece is far from perfect, but it <i>is</i> the first one, the prototype, were I to make more and try to market them. These skills were used:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hand sewing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Machine sewing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dyeing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Screen printing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Color selection and matching</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Drawing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Transferring a drawing to the screen printing process</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quilting knowledge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Computing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spacial sensibility</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fabric selection based on type and texture</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Decisiveness</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While I was working hard late one night to finish it, I was on the phone with my mom saying that no one would ever notice this detail that I was putting into it. I was questioning whether it mattered that I include the detail at all. She responded that I had to do the detail for me, so that I could call the piece mine and be satisfied with the final outcome for myself. I considered this and carried on, even later into the night. (I <u>did</u> include the detail!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is the details that make the story of the piece. Have a look at this, my second-ever weaving done on a loom:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What are your thoughts, at first glance? What do you notice? What, if anything speaks to you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The assignment was to create a progression, one with a beginning and an end. Last month, I celebrated living in the house we live in for six years. It is a special thing for me. I've never lived in one abode for five years, let alone six. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My progression was to document of all the places I've lived. There are as many inches in the weaving as there are years of my life. Every section represents the places I've lived. Blue is Colorado, gray is Oregon, purple is Germany, etc. If you count up the colors and the different weaving designs within the colors, you'll see 18 different things, which relate to the 18 places I've lived. I had to leave out some places, the ones that lasted less than a year, to keep the momentum of the piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the detail of the end, to show my 6 years of living in one house:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What are your thoughts, now that you've heard a little of the story? Has knowing the story and understanding the details made the value go up in your mind? Are you curious to know how long it took, not just to weave this, but to learn how to thread a loom, to learn the new vocabulary (and use it!) and design something for a loom that would come out the way I hoped it would?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A couple years ago I learned about the James Whistler case of 1877. An art purchaser thought Whistler's painting, <i>Nocturne in Black and
Gold: The Falling Rocket</i> (1874), was overpriced for what it was, and
said so publicly. Whistler took the man to court for libel. The court ruled in
favor of Whistler. Here is an excerpt from the courtroom (Holker was the
defendant's attorney; excerpt courtesy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#Ruskin_trial" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Holker:</b> "What is the subject
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Whistler:</b> "It is a night piece and
represents the fireworks at Cremorne Gardens."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Whistler:</b> "If it were <i>A View
of Cremorne</i> it would certainly bring about nothing but disappointment on
the part of the beholders. It is an artistic arrangement. That is why I call
it a nocturne...."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Holker:</b> "Did it take you much time
to paint the Nocturne in Black and Gold? How soon did you knock it
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Whistler:</b> "Oh, I 'knock one off'
possibly in a couple of days – one day to do the work and another to finish
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that for which you ask 200 guineas?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every morning, the art studio calls. Every night, the studio calls. As much as possible, I answer the call. Here is what the studio looks like right now--I've got about ten projects going on here. It looks like a complete mess to you, but believe me there is order in the chaos, and it is my sanctuary. As <a href="http://tomlundberg.com/" target="_blank">Tom Lundberg</a> says: "Work is worship." I love this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, any day of the week, I'd rather be in the studio. However, an artist must promote herself. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interview potential client for starting a new business (more on that later)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buy some supplies, including a tapestry needle (what?)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Update my artist bio to better reflect my current artist self (I've changed in the last year and a half)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photograph new products for selling on Etsy and to FoCo businesses</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Email FoCo sellers and attach edited photos</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apply for <a href="https://www.krfcfm.org/schedule/support-local-culture/" target="_blank">Support Local Culture</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Update blog</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Create a new Etsy listing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Post to Facebook</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cook a dish for and attend the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/905647829546123/" target="_blank">Hotdish</a>, the monthly artist networking event, organized by the excellent Elizabeth Morisette, who writes <a href="http://northerncoloradoartnews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Northern Colorado Art News</a> (you should subscribe)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business stuff sometimes feels productive, and sometimes it doesn't. It's the right thing to do. More often than you think, you <i>have</i> to do this if you're going to be a professional artist. I'm still getting used to this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is my photography "studio", and the photo that resulted from it. Check out my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/ParsleyArt?ref=hdr_shop_menu" target="_blank">Etsy</a> to see more. </span><br />
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<br />HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-46668568300840753832015-09-25T21:32:00.000-07:002015-09-29T13:26:05.048-07:00Who Inspires Me?<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.patiencebrewster.com/" target="_blank">Patience Brewster</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is an artist I've liked for years for her delicate and detailed drawings & paintings, and for her whimsy. She uses color and captures the character of her figures in ways that I find wonderfully inspiring. She is currently best known for her <a href="https://www.patiencebrewster.com/ornaments.html" target="_blank">Christmas ornaments</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Serendipitously, her team recently contacted me to collaborate in an online Artist Appreciation Month event, where they have asked several folks to talk a little more about what's behind their work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In an effort to go deeper with you, my devoted blog readers, I want to share my answers to her questions. I'd love to hear your own stories and thoughts in the comments below if you're inspired. :)</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. As a child, do you recall a significant moment when you felt truly affected or inspired by any particular artwork or artist?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This may sound funny, but my early inspirations were mostly in music. My mother is a strong musician and brought me and my sister up in an environment where singing and listening to music and watching musicals and attending classical concerts (as well as ballet and opera) were the norm. The day I found myself as one of four trumpet players in the prestigious </span><a href="http://www.portlandyouthphil.org/about/history.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Portland Youth Philharmonic</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> during our first concert on the </span><a href="http://www.portland5.com/arlene-schnitzer-concert-hall/photos" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> stage, I almost burst into tears, I was so inspired! It was in this moment, during the swells of a Brahms symphony, that I realized how art moves people, and how everyone has skills and a contribution to make in this world, no matter how young one may be.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Up till quite recently, my aim has been to express whimsy, love, relationship, meaning, and hope in my art. I like it when people are enchanted or intrigued when they see a piece I've made. I like it when I can come up with a twist that makes people see something in a new way. In moving forward from here, I want to add to that: how can I express some of the things that I think about outside the art studio (culture, race, class and gender, identity, privilege) in my work, and in a way that isn't dark? How can I find the courage to say something in my art that may challenge the beliefs of my viewers without alienating them? I am so community-oriented as a person, I want my art to start a conversation, not shut someone down.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first thing that comes to mind is when I actually sold something at an art show. Talk about feeling legitimate! One of my very favorite artists is Barbara Gilhooly, who also happens to live in Fort Collins (and you should <a href="http://barbaragilhooly.com/" target="_blank">visit her website</a>). She bought my piece and has since encouraged me to keep on keepin' on. More recently, my dad has been talking about me to his friends and our family members as the one who seemed to be born with the talent and skills <em>and</em> the ability to persevere to make something of it, like a career. That has really meant a lot to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since taking a feminist art history course in the spring of 2015, I have tons of new ideas. I'm still working on working out how to actualize these ideas, but my dream for now is to make a body of work that could be exhibited in a gallery show that is not in my own town. I mean, it could be here too, but I always appreciate any opportunity to travel. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are just so many, and for so many reasons! To start, you can click on <i>any </i>of the links to the right and you will see a fair sampling of the artists I admire, especially in Fort Collins. But allow me to expand!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sofonisba Anguissola was a prolific 16th century painter whose work I just love--it is vibrant, thoughtful, and addresses the occupations and confines of women in her day in subtle and intelligent ways. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maria Sibylla Merian brought science alive in her botanical illustrations, making science accessible to everyone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rosa Bonheur was a 19th century French artist who poo-pooed the notion that women could only wear dresses. She got a doctor's note allowing her to wear pants, which made it easier for her to go to the slaughterhouses to study the anatomy of the cattle and other animals she so skillfully painted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harriet Hosmer was a sculptor who was brave enough to articulate her thoughts on being a woman and an artist. She never married, and said this: </span><br />
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is being married but myself. I am the only faithful worshipper of Celibacy
[sic], and her service becomes more fascinating the longer I remain in it. Even
if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well
enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more
heavily, it is a moral wrong, I think, for she must either neglect her
profession or her family, becoming neither a good wife and mother nor a good
artist."</span></span></div>
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own thoughts about women’s rights, written in a letter of March 1861, were that
“every woman should have the opportunity of cultivating her talents to the
fullest extent, for they were not given her for nothing….” Not only do I admire that she said these things around the time of the American Civil War, but her words encourage me to this day. I so very heartily agree.*</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also admire the women of the 1970s feminist movement, who paved a path for women artists who came after them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could go on and on, but in an effort to edit, here is a list of some artists who have lived in the last hundred years--indeed, some are alive and working today--whose work or approach I greatly admire and who are not already linked-to on this blog (click on their names to be directed to their websites or info pages about them):</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Thiebaud" target="_blank">Wayne Thibaud</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/kara-walker" target="_blank">Kara Walker</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.miriamschaer.com/" target="_blank">Miriam Schaer</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ajeanryan.com/" target="_blank">Ajean Ryan</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning" target="_blank">Willem de Koonig</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/cindy-sherman" target="_blank">Cindy Sherman</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.calder.org/" target="_blank">Alexander Calder</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hungliu.com/" target="_blank">Hung Liu</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ingrid-siliakus.exto.org/" target="_blank">Ingrid Siliakus</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://cmrussell.org/charles-m-russell" target="_blank">Charles M Russell</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/" target="_blank">Su Blackwell</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.weshempel.com/" target="_blank">Wes Hempel</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wolfkahn.com/" target="_blank">Wolf Kahn</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks again to <a href="https://www.patiencebrewster.com/blog/qa/" target="_blank">Patience Brewster</a> and her team for including me on this thoughtful and fun blog project.</span><br />
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HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-58395403987750812322015-09-17T10:04:00.001-07:002015-09-17T10:05:51.045-07:00Art Blogging: How To Be Better<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I subscribe
to the blog and newsletter of <a href="http://artbizcoach.com/">Alyson B.
Stanfield</a>, an art business coach in Colorado. Her book, "<a href="http://artbizcoach.com/irbits/" target="_blank">I'd Rather Be In The
Studio</a>" is great and her advice, delivered to my email inbox every
week, is always relevant to things I’m constantly thinking about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.artbizblog.com/2015/09/artists-blogs-update.html?inf_contact_key=447ee34d4fa881f3dd6553069e31a92e23fb9fb6e1aa2fc980d1427015c4d2b3" target="_blank">most recent blog post</a> is about art blogging. Some of my favorite lines:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If you are a working artist seeking
a larger audience, your blog should be about your art and your life
as an artist.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The primary purposes of art are to <b>delight, question, confound, and document</b>.
Some would argue that art is for decoration. I’m not one of these people.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Please delight, question, and
confound us! Document your world, and the world we live in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most people cannot imagine what it’s
like to live the artist’s life. Tell them. Show them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, she
linked to a <a href="http://gapingvoid.com/blog/2010/06/14/wmabf/">great post</a>
written in 2010(!) by a person named Hugh McLeod, who wrote about why art blogs
fail or succeed. It's short and worth a read. What resonates with me most about
what he says is that "the real job of the artist [is] to be a
leader."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I<i> love</i> to lead. I love to inspire. I love
to be a part of people’s journeys to be better, to innovate and create, to help
them attain a sense of accomplishment in ways that mean something to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a
leader and an artist. How can I represent both in my blog? How can I lead
through art? How can I better inspire you to do the things you want to do and
be who you want to be? These are
questions I’m considering today. Meanwhile, I want to show you <i>more</i> than just my work; I want to tell
you all about what it’s like to be a working artist (at least in my own
experience). I promise to keep showing you what I’m making, but I want what I
do to be meaningful to your experience too. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-18305792930773512442015-08-28T12:39:00.001-07:002015-08-28T13:01:26.386-07:00Volvelles Galore<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you saw my contribution to this year's <a href="http://www.artbyhlm.blogspot.com/2015/05/card-swap-2015.html" target="_blank">card swap</a>, or if you attended the 2015 Fort Collins Studio Tour, or if you've been in my life at all really, you will know that volvelles are another one of my latest obsessions. It started with this, the first one I made for a friend's birthday in late February. I also borrowed the idea for the bird and flower from one of my fave local cafe's servers' uniform, <a href="http://www.cafebluebird.com/" target="_blank">Cafe Blue Bird</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that led to my development of a joke wheel, which is what visitors at the Studio Tour got to make-n-take as a souvenir from their time at Parsley Art Studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, a friend of mine from the uni was leaving us, so I gathered photos and words from all our colleagues to make a huge, personalized memory wheel as a goodbye gift. I loved this because it was art and community in one, my two favorite things ever.</span></div>
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<br />HLMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05885343441963566330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8961677001915178089.post-63275931828031366972015-08-28T11:09:00.002-07:002015-08-28T11:41:20.723-07:00Felt Board (with Instructions)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a friend who turned 4 this summer! As a gift, I made her a felt board, which she loved. This was a meaningful, easy and inexpensive gift. Along with the shapes I cut for her, I gave her the leftover felt and encouraged her to make her own shapes (with the cutting help of her parents, of course). I also gave her these pictures so she'd have an inventory of the shapes I made for her.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some kind of wooden board, any size. I used a 18x24 inch bulletin board I got at a garage sale for $2, which offered a nice frame, but it can be any board. If you're gifting this to small people, consider the weight of the board. (I don't recommend foam core--it warps with heat or moisture.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Felt - if you want bigger pieces than felt squares (available in a ton of colors at the fabric store), you can find a more limited selection of colors on the bolt. Think of the scenes you'll want to create. I bought dark green, brown, and light blue off the bolt and all other colors in squares.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scissors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elmer's glue</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheap 2" paintbrush</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ruler or measuring tape</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shoebox with lid or large ziploc bag</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Measure your board and cut a piece of felt (best if it's a neutral color, so it can fit most scenes) to that size. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cover your board in glue, then use the paintbrush to brush it over the entire surface evenly</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lay the large cut rectangle of felt over the glue and press gently to work out bubbles/wrinkles. (It's helpful to have another pair of hands for this step.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While that dries, cut out every shape, small to large, that you can imagine!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Put the dried board and shapes within easy reach of whoever will use it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Store all your shapes in the box or bag when not in use.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was a graduation card for my cousin, my first original design! Pop up naturally lends itself to steps and pillars, which seems appropriate for graduation. My aunt loved it so much that she commissioned a card for a friend of theirs who was also graduating and going to Duke University on a baseball scholarship. It only took something ridiculous like three months to get 'er done, but finally, this resulted. Here is my original design sketch and the final product:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The magic of pop-ups is all on the inside, but if you make a card, you gotta have something on the outside that entices you to open it. So I put this on the front.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My favorite part of this card is actually the baseball player silhouette, which <i>I made myself, </i>starting from this drawing and using a little Photoshop magic:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This last one is simple, but was equally fun to make. I left lots of room on the base for everyone in the office to sign this card to our departing boss.</span></div>
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