02.21.09
Posted in Design Theory at 9:39 pm by deRomilly
I was right. Orange is difficult to find in spring in a way that *I* consider pretty.
There are a lot of construction flags. I was trying to avoid actually taking pictures of oranges or carrots. I didn’t manage it. But here we go:
The orange sweatshirt on the construction guy with all the orange traffic cones in his truck:
First I felt the need to cheat and use the doodle I did on an orange scratch pad at work:
I resorted to photographing the ads:
I found the orange lid of the glue at the office:
Then I noticed that the book I’m knitting from has a great deal of orange in it:
And I finally resorted to food: oranges, and then noticed the baker’s chocolate in the baking cupboard of things I can no longer eat:
And I took a close up of the bag for the oranges because as well as being a beautiful deep orange, the texture was just so cool!
So. Did YOU find anything neat and orange this week? Trackback or post a comment so I can see, too!
Edited to add: Next week… Yellow!
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02.09.09
Posted in Contests/Challenges at 11:13 am by deRomilly
Over the years I have noticed a tendency I’ve had to gravitate toward a specific color set in all my work. I struggle with this and have always attempted to buy thread and try to design outside my comfort zone.
This does not always work. While I have used more yellows and oranges over the years, blue, green and purple still overwhelms them in my stash and work. And always will, I suspect. Sometimes I don’t even notice the other colors around me. Even the acrylic painting I started last week turns out to have a predominance of blue and green!
Do you wear this kind of color blinders, too?
Over the next seven weeks I’ve decided to challenge myself to find the colors around me. One week, one color, until I’ve worked through the whole rainbow. This week I’m starting with red. I’m going to try to take photos of what I find in my life in these colors as I go and post them here on Saturday morning.
Want to play with me? Post photos to your blog or flickr account and then post the link in the comments when I post my photos on Saturdays.
This will be a short week, since I’m just starting, but since this Saturday is Valentine’s day, RED should be easy enough to find around us.
Come explore our colorful world with me!
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11.26.08
Posted in Stitching Genres at 7:00 am by deRomilly
I have, somewhere in my mess of a studio — a doodle cloth that I took with me to many of the classes I took at the Creative Arts and Textiles Shows (CATS, now sadly extinct).
They are, in a very literal way, true samplers. Moreso even than the ones I usually work on my own to play with patterns, colors and stitches. They are totally random, have no pattern to speak of, and have often been abandoned because of this lack of integrity.
Over the years I have taken to focussing more on where I place stitches on this type of thing – and my doodle cloths are taking on a more coherent sampler-y feel. More, actually, like a colorful version of my pen and ink doodling – where I tend to attempt to make every stroke count as a basis/practice for larger abstract works. Not that the true samplers will ever look like those, though! But I find myself transferring the pen and ink to fabric and stitching them more and more as well, as in the photo. Maybe I’m just getting brighter again (or having a second childhood) whatever it is, I think I’m enjoying it!
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