the idea: prime a wash cloth and possibly paint? I got a little carried away with the PVA yesterday while I was priming some new knitting canvasses. That stuff works like a charm by the way, clear, stiff, and I can paint on it. What else can a girl ask for? For the past couple years …
the idea: use spray gesso on a knitted canvas with a lace pattern This is actually an idea that I did a while ago. It took up a lot of space in my studio and in the end didn’t actually work. The spray just wasn’t thick enough to make the knitting into something solid and paintable. …
the idea: use PVA to prime a canvas and then paint designs directly onto the color of the yarn Using PVA to prime my knitted canvases was actually an idea Katherine Vetne suggested during the January art critique. I have been experimenting with different ways of painting on knitting, wanting to move past the white gesso. …
the idea: knit a canvas with two yarns together One of my favorite memories happened at Michaels when my sister, mother, and I went shopping for yarn. I was young, somewhere in elementary school, and I picked out these three crazy yarns. Later, once I’d finished the project, my sister told me that she had thought …
the idea: paint a hat that I crocheted a long time ago I am not a crocheter. I also do not like to use patterns. For these to reasons the two hats that I ever crocheted were perhaps big enough to fit a two year old. Probably more like a baby doll. And yet, though …
Okay, awful pun, but I couldn’t resist. And it harkens back to the seventh Harry Potter book. You know what I’m talking about. Anyway. At the Ignite Craft conference I got to talking to Diane Ivey, owner of Lady Dye Fiber Arts. She was giving a presentation as well and we spent some time trading …
Friday was a difficult day. I had to pick up paintings from two art shows and then make a speech at Ignite Craft Boston all in the space of one afternoon. It was one of those days where having a car would have been really convenient. As I ran out the door to catch the …
Here’s yet another of the many ideas I’ve had about my knitted canvasses: Use clear gesso so that the color of the yarn is the first color in the painting. I haven’t started to do it yet, but I have a couple canvasses waiting and a couple paintings about to be done. So as soon …
Alright, here it is, the next big thing. Some ideas I have are silly little things that make me smile, but some make me call everyone I know and say “So…. I have a NEW IDEA!” This is one of the latter. I’ve been working on my knitted canvasses for a while now and I …
While I was lying on the floor, listening to ilyAIMY, and outlining a series of orange drips in yellow I got distracted by the textures of my own paintings. I know that sounds a little strange, maybe egotistical, but the thing about my kind of abstract art is that only half of it is made …