The First Friday reception at Wiregrass Gallery in Thomasville features several activities: Demo-A-Thon with artists plying their craft throughout Friday and all day Saturday. I’ll be there Friday eve with my wheel.
April’s exhibit focuses on artworks by co-op members that were inspired by the masters. Painters, sculptors, whatever bit of color, technique, subject, or other content led to a work of their own. For me, it’s color, taken from a series of paintings and dyed into my shawls. Then, of course, I use those paintings to model my weavings. These shawls are inspired by two of Botticelli’s Graces. Gradient colors are hand-dyed into the warp & weft. A few pics are posted in the ”Rainbow” album on FB, and more info is depicted on my site page, “Shawls-Rainbows.”
~ See you at Wiregrass!
They look a little skewed when 1st born, but can be the cutest they will ever be at this age. This is Pixie Moon, born with her twin brother, Pepper Moon, on a full moon, and wouldn’t you know – in 30 degrees of cold. That’s usual for sheep. But the little one’s don’t have mama’s wool to keep them warm, so I helped dry them off and get them into a
was getting back to paper-making. I did some textured, petal-ful, papers and also formed the pulp around a bowl form. When dry, this will be an outer container for a planter.
Just in time for First Friday, area exhibits are dressed for the holidays and offering a wealth of ART. Find a selection of my scarves and wraps at the following shows. And check out all the other beautiful artworks, too.
te St, Tally, Christmas show has a wide range of media from many artists of the region. Show continues through December, Tuesday – Saturday.
This is one she caught of me trying to entice a new lamb to come closer.
Buongiorno.
Each had their studio within their shop (usually carved out of a medieval building), and displayed huge hanks of yarns, finished scarves and wraps, and their main draw – the loom. All worked in wools (“lana”), not cotton (“coton”). The imagery on my own “seashawl” was something they’d not seen before. So we shared our work and I was very glad to find them.
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Sprinkles is an old pro at this, and follows the kids around waiting for the next bite. The others, especially Oreo, the lamb, is getting used to the idea of these summer invasions into his pasture. This group is from the Mission San Luis summer camp.
While waiting for the dye to seep into the yarns, the kids watch the loom and spinning wheel go through their processes and even get to try the loom themselves. Finally, the yarns are ready, so we dry them and ply them into a braided bracelet. Nice memento for the day.It’s fun!
Whenever the kids come to visit, my sheep love it because then they get to eat (well – they eat other days, too. But the kids feed them more.) We hold out mimosa branches to entice them closer. This old-timer usually doesn’t have any hesitations, but in this case, it took a little more coaxing. These campers are from the Growing Room, a day-camp in town, who enjoyed the opportunity for a field trip. We worked on the loom, saw the raw wool spun on the wheel, and had our own little spinning contest with fingers and a cotton ball. The winning strand of yarn was about 3 feet long!
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