tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46053250997095535032024-02-17T13:49:22.319-05:00LINDA KITTMER'S FIBRE ART, PHOTOGRAPHY & JOURNALLINGfibre art, fiber art, photography, art journals, art quiltsLinda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.comBlogger640125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-3540053912531275472015-09-14T18:08:00.003-04:002015-09-14T18:08:38.931-04:00Mixed Feelings...
Hand stitching French knots ad naseam...
I have real mixed feelings as I write today's post.
When I started writing this blog I was going through some challenges due to my recovery from an accident and the subsequent physical and mental health issues that reared their ugly heads. My daily art time became a lifesaver, in some ways quite literally, and this blog gave me a way to Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-3746312434546757972015-08-17T22:03:00.000-04:002015-08-17T22:03:03.632-04:00Group of Eight Fibre Artists Show...
Our Group of Eight Fibre Artists show is now hanging at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre, in downtown Georgetown, 9 Church Street, Halton Hills, ON, L7G 2A3. We hope you have a chance to come and see our work. The show runs from today until September 20th.
Here's a peek of what you'll see. There is work from seven of the nine artists currently in our group.
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-10343201047806671942015-08-17T00:00:00.000-04:002015-08-17T00:00:01.011-04:00Those Lines Aren't Straight!
You know it's time to tidy the studio and inventory your work when you happen upon a piece that you started a couple of years ago, finished many months ago, and realize you still haven't put a label or hanging device on it!
As I considered what to call this piece, I was reminded about something that happened while working on this piece at a show one day. I got such a chuckle out of a young Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-37759647483196583252015-08-05T12:44:00.001-04:002015-08-05T12:44:34.804-04:00Summer's Busy, But I'm Checking In...Summer posts are just not happening this year, but I thought I'd pop in to share a couple of things I've finished.
"Snakes and Ladders" is now finished and framed and will be showing at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre as part of our Group of Eight show, running from August 18th until September 20. If you're in the area, I hope you'll stop by to see our work.
"Stitch Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-61657792873182642462015-07-08T22:42:00.001-04:002015-07-08T22:42:54.805-04:00DLP Week 25: Hometown Memories...Week 25's prompt for the Documented Life Project was 'Hometown Inspiration' with the quote 'There's no place like home.' I am working on a fibre art piece using this globe, and since I had it printed on paper I thought I'd play with it and add the quote in fun lettering. I coloured it using Inktense pencils and my waterbrush. Simple but fun this week!
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-26091260612774020062015-06-25T08:04:00.002-04:002015-06-25T08:04:18.866-04:00'Three Squared' is Finished...Yesterday I shared with you the wonderful weekend workshop I participated in with Alice Vander Vennen (see it here). So I'm just quickly popping in to show you this piece, which I've called 'Three Squared', finished and framed.
The first shot shows it with the mat, and the second after it's signed and framed (but sadly with terrible reflections...how do you photograph art behind glass?).
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-10923834322169455422015-06-22T14:22:00.000-04:002015-06-22T14:40:46.246-04:00Weekend Workshop with Alice Vander Vennen...I just spent the most wonderful weekend with my Group of Eight friends and the incredibly talented Alice Vander Vennen. It was a fun filled workshop and the work that was produced was fabulous. Here are the pieces I have come away with...
We started with a couple of small exercises to get us warmed up. These were intended to be used for cards so we mounted them on card blanks.
The next exerciseLinda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-88231458328012145352015-06-18T00:00:00.000-04:002015-06-18T00:00:02.356-04:00Amanda McCavour Workshop: Culminating Project...
After creating several samples while working on exercises in Amanda McCavour's workshop (see them here and here), it was time to start work on our 'big' project.
I decided that I wanted to use a range of neutral colours. I've included a couple of in process shots of the piece at the sewing machine. Because you work with the fibres trapped between layers of water soluble stabilizer, Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-28561975099243462992015-06-17T00:00:00.000-04:002015-06-17T00:00:01.370-04:00More Thread Lace Exploration...
After making many of my sample pieces during the Amanda McCavour workshop, I decided to play around with a realistic thread lace version of Wafer, my future dog guide puppy.
I had this picture of Wafer on my iPhone, so I put a piece of Fabri Solvy over the screen on my phone and traced it with a black pen.
Working from light to dark, I started stitching the foundation of the piece. At this Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-69331242247440788182015-06-16T13:48:00.001-04:002015-06-16T13:48:43.578-04:00DLP Week 24: Recording Memories...With all the craze over adult colouring books these days, I decided to do this week's Documented Life Project page as a black and white doodled drawing that I can come back to and colour at my leisure. It loosely records memories from our road trip along the east coast of the U.S. last fall, the favourite being camping among the wild horses of Assateague!
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-20821748972538898912015-06-16T00:00:00.000-04:002015-06-16T00:00:02.829-04:00DLP Week 23: Travel Inspired...
The week 23 DLP theme is about travel, with a "Take me away" prompt, so I just had to create a page about my upcoming trip to Amorgos Island in Greece!
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-67425191500915089582015-06-15T10:26:00.000-04:002015-06-15T10:35:40.330-04:00A Week With Amanda McCavour!I spent the first week of June in a fabulous week long workshop with the incredibly talented Amanda McCavour. If you ever get a chance to take a workshop with Amanda I highly recommend it. In addition to being a talented artist, Amanda is a lovely person and a great teacher!
The workshop was all about using water soluble stabilizer to create thread lace. What fun!
This sample Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-87711468562289227752015-06-07T15:09:00.000-04:002015-06-07T15:09:16.456-04:00Catching up on DLP...Weeks 21 and 22...I've had a wonderful week away at an Amanda McCavour workshop (I'll post about that soon), so I thought I'd just pop in and post another couple of pages in my Documented Life Project calendar journal.
Week 21:
And Week 22:
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-58616889125669420352015-05-29T07:06:00.000-04:002015-05-29T07:06:00.069-04:00Excitement Returns...I've got to confess, it's been a long time since I've been excited about a piece of fibre art. I seem to have been in some sort of a slump and I just couldn't seem to find motivation or excitement to produce.
Yesterday I showed you the beginnings of this challenge piece and I was initially pleased with how the brick wall was progressing. However, on further reflection I wasn't happy with how Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-77977175502637646352015-05-28T10:30:00.001-04:002015-05-28T10:30:07.342-04:00Street Art Challenge...
The next challenge for our Group of Eight Fibre Arts group is 'Street Art'. It seems this is an especially challenging challenge for the members of our group! After several false starts, I have finally found something that is going to make me happy, and I've come to the conclusion that if every street artist first had to 'build a wall', there might be a lot less graffiti around. LOL
So farLinda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-30352725923604289592015-05-27T10:43:00.000-04:002015-05-27T10:43:14.276-04:00All It Needs Is A Name...It's been almost another month, but this piece is finally finished. I showed you the work in progress here and I've finally finished the last bit of hand stitching. I'd love your suggestions for a name...I'm completely at a loss for what to call it.
It's made entirely from my hand dyed and indigo dyed fabrics and threads (except for the machine thread). I love the contrast of the tight Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-76292278153758917462015-05-23T17:32:00.000-04:002015-05-23T17:32:14.837-04:00DLP Week 20: Modelling Paste......or not! This week's Documented Life Project prompt was to use modelling paste and the theme was 'rising to the occasion'.
I certainly feel that Yoshi, my Lions Foundation of Canada future dog guide puppy has risen to the occasion. She is an incredibly beautiful, gentle puppy and on Monday I returned her to Dog Guides so that she can begin her formal training as a service dog. Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-15130669161523975252015-05-23T14:56:00.001-04:002015-05-23T14:56:35.170-04:00DLP Week 19: Stitching...I'm catching up with my DLP journal and this week was all about using fun bright bits of papers I had lying around. The Documented Life Project prompt for week 19 was 'stitching' so I machine stitched together several strips of various under papers and Gelli printed papers. These became my lines on which I wrote the weekly quote, this time used exactly as it was. I also had a sheetLinda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-71383646102610816142015-05-17T00:29:00.002-04:002015-05-17T00:29:23.460-04:00DLP Week 18: The Fabric of Our Lives...I seem to be falling a bit behind with my documented life project...life (and all new windows installed in our house) have side tracked me this week. The Documented Life Project prompt for week 18 was to use fabric and the quote was a phrase...'the fabric of your life'.
This is one of my favourite photos of my four older brothers and I, taken over fifty years ago (gasp!).Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-11823256592386663632015-05-09T21:56:00.000-04:002015-05-09T21:56:14.311-04:00DLP Week 17: Playing With Inks...The week 17 Documented Life Project challenge was to use inks. I have a good collection of acrylic inks, spray inks, Tsukineko inks, Posh Rainbow Inks by Ranger, Inktense pencils (love these!!!), India inks...you get the idea...so this week's challenge was just about pulling out the media and playing.
Yoshi and Wafer were most interested as I added the final doodles while Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-18304415506942224322015-05-07T00:56:00.001-04:002015-05-07T00:57:44.319-04:00DLP Week 16: A Lot On My Plate...The week 16 Documented Life Project challenge had us using Gelli plates for printing, and the theme was "A lot of my plate". Ironically, this page is a couple of weeks overdue because...yes, I've had a lot on my plate. LOL
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-10540962204736250632015-05-06T17:19:00.002-04:002015-05-06T17:19:56.591-04:00Ontario Network of Needleworkers (ONN) ConferenceYesterday I participated in the 2015 ONN conference, hosted by the Canadian Embroiderers' Guild, Guelph chapter. It was another well organized and productive meeting. Thank you to all who were involved in organizing the day!
In addition to the meeting itself, each guild attending sets up a display of of members' work to showcase what they have been doing, so I thought I'd share with you our Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-59178305142821790712015-04-30T12:16:00.003-04:002015-04-30T12:16:55.753-04:00Hanging Fibre Art...Yesterday my friend and I went to see the fibre art show, Edge of The Forest. If you get a chance to see the show, currently at Art Square Gallery in Toronto (until May 4th), it is certainly worthwhile! I was especially taken by the beautiful work of Sheila Thompson. Her stunning felt art pieces are incredible!
The show did leave me wondering about 'traditional galleries' hanging fibre art. As Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-11398850669145113782015-04-29T21:55:00.002-04:002015-04-29T21:55:40.993-04:00Another Look at a Work in Progress...A while ago I showed you a few shots of a new piece I'm working on. Life (and puppies) are keeping me busy, but I am still working away at it, so I thought I'd show you a few more images. Today I've been working on some machine stitching before I get back to the rest of the hand stitching and beading...
I should be able to show you the finished piece before too long!
Linda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4605325099709553503.post-47266223875432128152015-04-20T22:26:00.002-04:002015-04-20T22:26:41.249-04:00DLP Week 15: Cry Me a River...
I just love how some art journal pages evolve, almost on their own.
For this week's Documented Life Project challenge, we were to use acrylic paint (a go to of mine when it comes to art journalling) and the quote "Cry me a river".
I started by tearing up some 'under paper' that I had on my desktop, and those colours led me to randomly paint the journal page using Key Lime and Teal ZirconLinda Kittmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14050477037091909816noreply@blogger.com2