Favorite Artists Series

This is my plan for my Favorite Artists Quilt

NAEA Convention Artwork: Boston 2019

These are all things I did in Boston last week: so many ideas!

Paper burlap (from Roylco) with acrylic paint and stitching

Soft sculpture made of canvas (print of Customs tower--Boston) (Blick lesson plan)

Symbolic Self-Portrait

Silhouette portrait of Toni Morrison by Robert McCurdy

This portrait was drawn with triangles 

Found descriptions on a book page

Embroidery for Fahrenheit 451

Art and Social Justice Issues

Who is America for?

Drawing in my sketchbook

Gridded photocopy

Enlargement with Text and Colored Pencils

Embroidery: Drawing with Thread

I like to work on these when I travel, so these were all made or started around the NAEA Convention in Seattle.

Your Eyelids are Getting Heavy (10-inch hoop)

Viking (7-inch hoop)

Cloudburst Brewing Logo (I will work for beer!) (7-inch hoop)

Process picture

Sara Ramirez Embroidery with Snow Patrol lyrics (10-inch hoop)

Embroidery as Drawing

 I started with a photo I took at the Bronx Zoo two summers ago. 

 

I sketched it in my sketchbook in pencil and then drew over my lines with a black marker.

I traced my marker drawing onto muslin with a pencil.

It was really fun to do and I like how it turned out.

NAEA San Diego Pre-Conference Workshop

   See the presenters' website: http://www.journalfodderjunkies.blogspot.com

Big theme ideas:

My notes and work from the day:

Mind Map:

Drawing from mind map. 

This is a symbology prompt drawing activity where you or students rank a circle, a square, a triangle, a cross, and a spiral as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then you create a design showing your preference. 

This was free writing about one of the big ideas with a water soluable writing implement. Then re-emphasizing certain words as shown on their slides above.