If I had followed the suggested reading schedule for Art & Fear, this month I would be deep into chapter 8. But I haven’t made it to that chapter yet because I’ve been thinking about – hung up on, actually – one particular topic for the past several months: Finding Your Work.
Last August I read the call for entry for an art quilt competition. Last September I decided on the general theme for my entry in that competition and obtained the photos that would serve as the basis of the image.
Back in the Dark Ages, when I was a small child taking piano lessons, my teacher told me about Mozart. Perhaps she thought that the story of the prodigy who wrote lovely little melodies and gave public piano recitals when he was five would inspire me.
Yesterday the package at my door (delivered by our friendly and accommodating USPS lady) was a little quilt returning home from an exhibit in New York. The quilt was “Wind”. The exhibit was the 2009 National Small Art Quilt Works Exhibition.
I had a great time in Fran Skiles class at QSDS in June — all that messing around with gesso and gloss medium and acrylic paints and inks and STUFF!