Tangleing at Fresh

I did some informal demonstrating on zentangles this weekend at Fresh Gallery. The photos are of two of the people who came by to play. The tangles are ones that they created while at the gallery.

Johns First tangle Dans Tangle

Johns unfinished tangle

Dan and John and their Tangles Dan and John Tangleing at Fresh

This piece started out as a piece of collage paper.

Pieces of paper that were put together with glue to make one big piece of paper. Next I embroidered the face image.I put the paper onto a piece of felt and stitched onto it. It still needed something so I put a shear synthetic fabric over the image, did some free motion machine stitching over it and then shot it with a heat gun to melt and distress the synthetic fabric.

The close up is of the face after it had been stitched around and distressed.

I haven't finished with her yet. I am going to fuse tissue paper to some more felt to make a background fabric. I think that I will put some washes of paint on the background fabric then attache this first piece onto it.

I'll upload more images as this project progresses.

Fabric Faces for March

Another month and another rush to create some "Fresh" art for Fresh Gallery.

Here are some of the pieces I am going to try and complete to exhibit in March. I thought I would try to post some of my in progress photos of what I am working on.

I will be posting more images as I work on them.

The Mind is Moving

a zentangle on colored scratchboard

Why a mole in the house of art?

Why not?

It's a line I liked from a Tom Robbins novel "I feel like an undercover agent,

a mole in the house of art".

I suppose I relate to that on some level. I have been making art of some kind most all of my life. I have a degree in Fine Art. I have exhibited my art in galleries and juried exhibits, but still I feel like I'm sneaking into the party, an unseen observer. Not really one of the crowd.

What do I think I'm doing anyway

I keep reading that artist should blog.

Okay, so now I have a blog.

I don't know that I have anything to say

or that anyone will

or should

be interested in what I say.

But now I have a place to say it

even if no one listens.