My Tapestry Highlights of 2021... Part Two
This is part 2 of my Tapestry Highlights 2021 …
In July, I opened up Elements for enrollment. My plan was to write the course one week ahead of the content. Not the wisest way to create a course of this volume but I believed it was the only way I’d get it done. For the next four and a half months I would be immersed in an intense schedule I could never have predicted.
Along with writing the course and creating videos, I wove lots of samples and began to see Shape and Line everywhere I looked. I also signed up for a (totally freeing!) class from Tansy Hargan called Mixed Media Thumbnail Sketching. I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep up with it in real time, but planned to re-visit it after Elements.
shapes and lines…
I was still working on a design for the Shannock loom in August. I had even woven the heading, but hopes of ever beginning it this year were quickly dissolving. Waterline was due to start in September and I was planning to get a head start on my postcard for ATA’s Heartscapes before it began.
It was around this time that I noticed I was beginning to split up my day in the studio a little differently. I worked on the class most of the day, but I gave myself the evenings to weave Woodles. That’s how the Prairie Songs and Colors series came about; a playful approach to color blending when my brain was taxed out.
color play … Prairie Songs VII detail
I did start the postcard design, several times, but rejected one after another.
And I signed up for the next Tansy Hargan class on Color- at the same time beginning to write up the Color module for Elements.
In September we had our first group meeting for Waterline. The month was filled with excitement, learning about my river, learning about other weaver’s rivers, sharing design thoughts - and total immersion into Color for Elements.
some of the first Waterline sketches, possibly inspired by Tansy’s classes.
October was a bit of a blur.
Continued work on Elements: Texture and Space. Towards the end of October, I scrambled to get my postcard done just in time, and oh… my shipment of the new Array yarn arrived!
arrival of Array
November began with teaching my first in-person class in nearly two years - on Soumak at KAWS. Followed by mounting and finishing 8 small tapestries for Wrap it Up, a show at a local gallery in Manhattan. Forever continuing to refine my Waterline design, and planning shaping demos for the final module of Elements: Form.
Shaped edges in tapestry for Elements
December: Finished all content for Elements, finally got started on Waterline, and learned I had sold 4 tapestries at Wrap it Up!
a fresh start on Waterline…
Continuing to Dream Big… sometimes dreams come true!