brushandpencils : The Button Shop

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Button Shop

Victoria, British Columbia

The colors in this photo from my recent trip to the Northwest are actually quite similar to the new winter colors seen from the dock at the National Wildlife Refuge. The amazing thing about travel is that the new sights can be a source of life after returning home. We carry all the places we've been within us.

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Creative Endeavors

My marks on the pages of my sketchbook/journal help me to become more aware of my surroundings; a visual diary and sequential record of days of my life. Sometimes I'm working from my car, an "onsite studio". Almost always these drawings are "drawn on location".

My knitting and my weaving are other ways for me to explore color and texture; to use my hands to create and build up. Again the choices are a sequential record. The inches, feet and yards of cloth become a "journal", similar to the way pages eventually make up a book. I prefer to weave the design as I go along rather than to have it all figured out ahead of time.