1000 days body of work – Page 5 – An artist's practice

Tiny art factory

I’ve chopped up a piece of old ‘waste paint’ canvas paper to make some ‘tiny’ art.

I love making my little drawings/paintings. I let the prepped background speak to me about what the subject will be. They’re sketches that, in most cases, remain autonomous.

With these little canvasses, however, I am considering some larger works coming out of the sketches.

Here, I’ve had a little play with some digital manipulation of the background of one of the pieces. I can see a use for these images as larger scale oil paintings.

Here, I’ve used my Japanese stamps to make pink and yellow floating blossoms. They have a decorative look that would work well in smaller acrylic works.

Day 996/5 is all green! 💚

Taking a braid for a walk

A long-held interest is the idea of fabrication – making my own materials. Kumihimo braiding is quite fascinating and has kept me busy over winter.

I love the thought of working with these patterned braids in a sculptural way—using them as lines, braiding (ha! new word – metabraid), knitting, weaving. And I also love that I can use any type of thread—cotton, wool, silk, wire—the list is endless, as is the potential for patterning.

BTW this is Day 999/2 💙