Size does matter!

Completed two postcards today to send to a friend! Haven't done a lot of anything except work and be sick for the last month. Had this cough that I just couldn't shake - so all my ribs were sore, plus I was doing a LOT of overtime at work. I'm better now. The weather's good. I have 6 days left of work before I am officially unemployed!! (In my mind anyway) I have been applying for jobs, but there aren't a lot being advertised in the area I want to work in. Plus I don't want to take the first random thing I see because I'm desperate. I want to get a job I really want to do and stick with for a while, not get 5 years down the track and realise I'm still doing something that was meant to be temporary. Enough of that! I went to a textile exhibition today which was excellent! Heaps of artists from a group called 'Designing Women'. Some beautiful work. It was also really good to see how people had chosen to finish their work and what prices it was selling at. I have a couple of exhibitions and things lined up for next year, but am not very experienced at pricing so this was a good experience for me. I've read that the bigger it is, the more people are willing to pay - so not much use making something tiny and intricate because people want 'value for money'. Below are scans of the postcards I finished. Unfortunately scans are not so great, but better than nothing! I have printed on a variety of synthetic fabrics and cut them into squares. I have overlaid that with synthetic chiffon. My plan was initially to burn away the chiffon but a number of things have made me decide against burning it all. It's no longer the look I want. I'm mostly happy with these, though. The scan really doesn't do them justice. :I

Falling into place.

I have just had the good luck of being able to submit some work for the art exhibition at the school I work at! A lot of the Private Schools have annual art exhibitions - not of students' work - but of local artists. So that's all set up for April 2007. Better get cracking. My Moroccan piece is coming along. After we finish the musical at school I'll have more time to sit down and finish it and start a few others. Ces la vie. Maybe Santa will bring me a camera for Christmas so I can post photos more regularly. :)

Moroccan Sample

I have started a new piece. After starting to feel better and recovering from my cold, I suddenly had all these ideas and things I wanted to try. Above is a sample using burnt away chiffon. I have stamped and embossed the fabrics underneath and cut them into squares. On the actual piece the squares will be smaller in proportion to the overall design. Working all weekend but will hopefully get a chance to finish it sometime soon.