brushandpencils : Home and Away

Monday, January 7, 2013

Home and Away

With lots of time at home when it was stormy, I finally completed my knitting. (Wigglewrap pattern by Sally Brandl) and then I went traveling to visit family and loved seeing all the snow on a sunny day. When the light was still new in the morning I did this quick sketch at a little parking lot close to an exit on Wisconsin's I-94.

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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.