Field Notes at the Blanden

Field Notes No.'s 1 - 42
On exhibit at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum thru April 15th.

All Things End, Eventually!

Field Notes #'s 1-36 ready for their edges to be bound and then mounted to their stretched canvas frames.  Each piece is 6x6 inches.

So why am I having such a hard time getting there? Excellent question. And I finally decided it's because I don't want this particular project to end.

Which is odd because the whole time I've been working on this project I've been chomping at the bit to start the next state of my Fields Series!

Anyway, I'm off to stitch their tiny edges, and get started on attaching the hanging hardware to the frames.

Field Series Update

My thread order came today. If you've been following me on Facebook then you know there's been a lot of drama lately with my trying to obtain a rather allusive Aurifil Thread color #2612 aka arctic ice.
Well that was through Amazon.

Three spools of the wrong color later I put out a plea on Facebook begging to know everyone's favorite place to buy Aurifil Thread.  Follow That Thread came up, repeatedly.  So late Sunday night I put together my order, which included the much desired #2612, and it arrived today.

And the much desired color is quite desirable!!! It IS the perfect sky color!

#2612 is second from the left and it matches my earth pigment painted fabrics and perfectly!

Six pieces almost stitched, thirty left to go.

My color palette for the Fields Series sans one spool that should be here hopefully this weekend, because I of course ordered it from Amazon.  Odd that it'll be the correct color?

 

A herd of wild corn bails wander a field in Story County, Iowa. Approach with caution, they can be quite dangerous when spooked, rolling here and there with no particular destination in mind!

 

 

Corn Bale Inspiration

 

 

 

WIP - What the Corn Knew

Acrylic on raised panel.  Since I cannot show what I'm working on at the moment, for my Quilt National submission I'll show you what I painted this afternoon.  This layer is currently drying, the next layer will be a glaze layer, and once that dries I'll be layering on more paint. 

Corn No. 53

Corn No. 53 - Madder Root dyed cotton fabric, cochineal dyed silk organza net. Machine stitched.

WIP - Corn No.'s 51 and 52

Corn No. 51 (That was then.)

Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) ~ It has been awhile since I've worked in the horizontal plane. Right now I'm taking a break from the sewing machine so I my eyes can relax a bit.

WIP - Corn Technique Sample

Working on my corn field techniques, more samples coming soon.

WIP - Ode to Corn (Untitled) 030412

I have more stitching to add to this piece yet.

Natural and Compost Dyed Cotton Fabric.  Commercial Black Fabric. Constructed Silk Fabric.  Machine Stitched.

Community of Artists Exhibition Acceptance

Crow Field was accepted into the Octagon Center for the Art's Community of Artists Exhibition!

Iowa - Inspiration at 55 mph!

Iowa - Inspiration at 55 mph!  Whenever I'm not driving I like to take advantage of the situation by snapping tons of photos, photos that are in motion.  Every once in awhile I make a squealing noise indicating I really want to stop and take more photos of whatever that has captured my attention at that moment, but by and large images taken at 55mph intrigue me!

Vineyards in Iowa

John and I went out earlish - for me anyway - this morning to take photos of a vineyard in progress.  Vineyards used to be a mainstay here in Iowa, just like potatoes and mangel beets, but alas sometime in the 60's they went the way of the dodo bird.  Ten years ago, however, the vineyard made a comeback here!  The mark they leave upon the prairiescape is unique, in comparison to corn and soy beans, and thusly my Prairie Harvest series will be including vineyards as part of the imagery!

Crow Field

Crow Field
12x24 inches
Rust Dyed, Natural Dyed, and Digital Printed Silk Fabrics, Cotton Sear Sucker Fabric, and Interfacing.
Machine Stitched
Backed with cotton duck canvas.

WIP

Trying to depict wheat field behind the grain bins, I've been biting off the temptation to paint the bins black!

WIP No. 32

WIP No. 32 Now that my wet studio is cleaned up I can paint fabric once again, I made this piece today in celebration of having a surface to work on!!!
18x22 inches
Setacolor Transparent Paint, Shiva Paintstiks, Natural Muslin 7878