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| New Life by Gillian Cooper |
Some people work well with a
schedule of what they need to do by when and will finish things well in advance
so that they will be organised. Others
of us, well, let’s just say I’m the queen of the last minute. Without deadlines, I can struggle. Of course, life would be less stressful if I
was always ready in advance, but where would the fun be? The kids wouldn’t recognise me if we didn’t
arrive up at school right at the last minute.
However, I do want it to be noted that in seven years, we haven’t been
late once... yet!
And so it is with my artwork. Deadlines can help. I decided that I wanted to make a piece for
the SAQA Benefit Auction months ago and when did I make it? The week before the deadline. Luckily, given that it had to posted
internationally, the deadline was extended by two weeks. Even better for SAQA, the deadline was
extended after I had posted it or it still wouldn’t be finished now.
I decided to make something a
little different and experiment. Circles keep cropping up at the moment so I thought I would
just go with it and do circles. I
hand-dyed lots of different types of fabric to make the circles to add to the
texture. It’s finished with recycled
glass beads from the African Fabric Shop – I just couldn’t resist them at the Loch
Lomond Quilt Show.
Anyway I think it is a bit different
to everything else I’m doing and I’m not sure it will be more than one off –
but what do you think? Do brighter
colours work for me? Does it look like
my artwork?! If you really like it, it will be auctioned raise funds for SAQA in September - even if you don't want to buy this piece, you should have a look at some of the others. SAQA has lots of talented members.
3 comments:
A change is as good as a holiday, and this is certainly a change. But gorgeous as well.
Glad you made it in time. I do like the colours and the circle theme.
Thanks Vicki and Maggi. It's fun to try something different, especially when you feel it has worked
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