Page 1 --- an orderly knot garden with lots of marks in the various beds from lines to dashes to dots to diagonal lines, etc.
The second picture shows repeating patterns of stylized cherries.
Page 2. I have actually done a small embroidery of the log house with door and window and an amazing flower garden (hidden by the fence in this picture) in the front. In the second picture, the trees and the branches create negative spaces. This card has always been a favourite of mine. One could use a resist for the trees and then machine embroider the branches on top!!!!???
Page 3. The straight lines of the bamboo are intriguing against pavement stones and green garden in the back.
Page 4. What a neat looking sun!!! Lots of doodling and the colour, of course, to show of the fancy sun!!! I like the repetition of the various patterns.
Page 5. My taking a line for a walk is not very inspiring. (the pointy bits between hop and jump are “skips”.)
Page 6. My stitching from my “take a line for a walk” is not too accurate. I did find it very difficult to follow as I just wanted to keep sewing and not look at my diagram. Stopping and starting was not easy for me. I used calico with a feather weight interfacing (50%polyester/50% rayon ) and Guttermann Black thread (colour # 10) for all the stitching pieces in this chapter. All done in a hoop.
Page 7. My interpretation of “take a line for a dance”.
My stitching for “take a line for a dance”. I used the same materials as I used for “take a line for a walk”.
Page 8. The next few pages are a series of mark makings with various tools and mediums. On this page I used various felt pens and different sizes of pigma pens. The machined piece of calico to the right of the page is my attempt to copy two of the marks on the top of this page. The second piece is another attempt to copy marks from the center of the page just under the Sharpie fine point ? marker. The upside r comes from page 11.
Page 9. Here I used a sketching pencils, graphite and charcoal
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Page 10. Here, I used graphite, rolling it, using the side of the marker, using different pressures.
Page 11. On this page I used black artist’s ink and a paint brush in all sorts of contortions!!! Fun to do and produced all sorts of varied marks!!!
Page 12. Again more marks with felt pens. I also have a new Graphite crayon which is water soluble …. also works well on fabric. Lots of fun adding a bit of water when I was making marks!!!
Page 13. On this page, I used unconventional mark making tools such as a credit card, a toothbrush, the end of a plastic spool of thread, a toothpick, sponge, etc. They were all dipped into the ink.
Page 14. Various implements (from page 13) were dipped into bleach to create the above display. I also tried to bleach out patterns on black card stock and other black papers to no avail!!!
Page 15. The top part of this page, I tried to use a bleach pen. Left a whitish mark on top of the paper but did not block out the black. Similar mark makers used in the experiments above.
Page 16. This is my emotions page. You also asked us to identify the emotions from two of your own drawings. The first one which looks like clumps of grass, I chose – undecided. And the second one, I chose – angry.
Page 17 These are the samples I stitched from my emotions page.
fear mournful
love anxiety
my attempt at anger. ( I had trouble following my drawing – it was too complicated and so I gave up!!!
Page 18. I put all the samples on one page and then decided to cut them up and put them close or next to the drawings. The sample on the top right is one that quilters use with ease (I believe it is called a stipple stich or meander stitch) and looks absolutely wonderful when done perfectly. I have a long way to go. So I guess it is more practice for me!!!
THE END!! (finally!!!
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