Archive for January, 2006

Achromatic Focal Point Composition Redux

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I was not happy with my black and white print composition so I did some changes in fabrics in the lower right corner. Here it is now: I think this works a little better. I wasn’t going to do it, but I did. Today was the deadline for sending in jpegs and prints of journal [...]

Color & Composition: Achromatic Composition

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Bit by bit and little by little, I am divesting myself from all the stuff that filled my days here in Sonoma County. Today was the annual meeting of my parish and the new Rector’s Warden was announced – and of course, it is not me. I am staying on the vestry until we move, [...]

Color & Composition: Monochromatic Color Scheme

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

For this assignment, I had to go back to the contour drawing that I did in the first exercise: Then, I had to cut a rectangle in a sheet of paper, 2 1/8 by 2 3/4 inches. Using the box, I had to find the focal point and find an arrangement that pleased me. I [...]

Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Friday, January 27th, 2006

The house is sold. We are heading to Oregon next week to look for a new home there. We close escrow on the 27th of February and will rent back the house until April 15th. Steve gets to sing Mozart’s Requiem with the choir on Good Friday, and I get to take a workshop with [...]

Gratuitous Cute Dog Pic & Shameless Self Promotion

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Awww! Isn’t she adorable, asleep  on my studio sofa? It’s my Maggie! And, LOOK!, my quilt in the Bag of Stuff article in American Quilter, written by Linda Cline, who received the quilt. Thanks, Linda!! The couple who looked at the house today really like it. They have homes in Florida, Cape Cod, Connecticut and [...]