Showing posts with label Fibre art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fibre art. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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Friday, August 28, 2015
Feature Friday: Angela Grasse
Hi my name is Angela Grasse and I am the creator of the blog Princess Bubbles Creates found at http://princessbubblescreates.blogspot.ca/ I live in Kitchener, Ontario with my husband, son and two golden retrievers.
I started stitching 25 years ago when a friend showed me a pre-printed quilt panel. I stitched a number of these panels thus developing a pretty good hand quilting stitch. This led to patchwork quilt classes but not being one to follow patterns I soon discovered crazy quilting and surface design. Surface design is probably what I most love doing but you can only create so much fabric. Eventually you have to use the fabric! I love crazy quilting because of the handwork. Embroidery and beading has become a passion. The slow process is calming and meditative for me.
I have had a few accomplishments this past year. I had a fibre art piece accepted into a show at the Homer Watson Gallery. Mainly paintings comprised the show so it was exciting to have some fibre art represented. I was thrilled to be nominated in the Fibre Art category of the Arts Awards Waterloo Region this year. The whole process was a bit daunting but I am glad that persevered through all the paperwork. My work has been accepted into the 2015 spring and winter issues of Crazy Quilt Quarterly as well as numerous local shows. That always feels good and gives me courage to keep at it.
One last accomplishment. last year I was the architect of Her Cup Runneth Over. It was a show and auction of art bras to raise money for HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre. It was very well received and raised almost a thousand dollars for a very worthy cause. We will be repeating the event again this year!
My main goal as an artist is to keep learning, growing and pushing boundaries. I find I learn a lot and really enjoy the give and take with students so I am looking for more opportunities to teach. I am working on a new print making technique for fibre artists and would like to develop it into an article to be published. I would also like to collaborate with other artists, including my musician son. I would love to be an artist in residence and have my work in more shows. There are always new things to explore in this beautiful art world!
Thanks for visiting,
Angela
I started stitching 25 years ago when a friend showed me a pre-printed quilt panel. I stitched a number of these panels thus developing a pretty good hand quilting stitch. This led to patchwork quilt classes but not being one to follow patterns I soon discovered crazy quilting and surface design. Surface design is probably what I most love doing but you can only create so much fabric. Eventually you have to use the fabric! I love crazy quilting because of the handwork. Embroidery and beading has become a passion. The slow process is calming and meditative for me.
I have had a few accomplishments this past year. I had a fibre art piece accepted into a show at the Homer Watson Gallery. Mainly paintings comprised the show so it was exciting to have some fibre art represented. I was thrilled to be nominated in the Fibre Art category of the Arts Awards Waterloo Region this year. The whole process was a bit daunting but I am glad that persevered through all the paperwork. My work has been accepted into the 2015 spring and winter issues of Crazy Quilt Quarterly as well as numerous local shows. That always feels good and gives me courage to keep at it.
One last accomplishment. last year I was the architect of Her Cup Runneth Over. It was a show and auction of art bras to raise money for HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre. It was very well received and raised almost a thousand dollars for a very worthy cause. We will be repeating the event again this year!
My main goal as an artist is to keep learning, growing and pushing boundaries. I find I learn a lot and really enjoy the give and take with students so I am looking for more opportunities to teach. I am working on a new print making technique for fibre artists and would like to develop it into an article to be published. I would also like to collaborate with other artists, including my musician son. I would love to be an artist in residence and have my work in more shows. There are always new things to explore in this beautiful art world!
Thanks for visiting,
Angela
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Linda @ LindaKittmer
This week we have a fibre/mixed media artist, who journals and loves photography. Lately, she's hosting a beautiful paper napkin exchange. When you visit her blog, make sure you visit her galleries, especially the Bead Journal Project Gallery where you can see close-ups of her piece "My Year Unraveled" which is AMAZING!! It's tempting to think that her fabulous studio (see the tour) makes all her work possible but I think she'd be a very prolific artist in any case. Introducing...
My
name is Linda Kittmer and I’m from a relatively small town, Georgetown,
Ontario, which is about thirty minutes outside of Toronto.
In
the spring of 2006 a friend and I started a fibre art group, ‘The Group
of Eight Fibre Artists’ or GOE (rhymes with toe) as we refer to
ourselves. In spite of the name, the group currently has ten members who
meet monthly, encouraging and inspiring one another. Our first group
show was in January 2011 and we had many shows and speaking engagements
since then.
I
now use much of my own hand dyed fabric and I create unique pieces
using various surface design techniques such as mono-printing, marbling,
rust dyeing, etc. I have had several of my pieces of art accepted into
juried art shows, some specifically ‘fibre art’ shows and others into
general art shows which also exhibited other media.
My
name is Linda Kittmer and I’m from a relatively small town, Georgetown,
Ontario, which is about thirty minutes outside of Toronto.
I
consider myself a fibre artist foremost, but I also do mixed media
work, art journalling and photography, and these various passions
sometimes cross over into one another. Although I have always been
interested in art, and took some art classes in high school and
university, once I started working as a teacher, my art was put on the
back burner while I worked full time and raised my son.
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| 'My Year Unraveled' which is a large piece (18"x24") done entirely in heavy bead embroidery, which journals my life during 2012, with each individual piece representing a month in the year, starting with January in the centre and spiralling out to the end of the year. |
Having
grown up in Kitchener, near Mennonite communities, I saw a lot of
quilts and always admired them. Although there are no quilters in my
family, in 1999, I decided to teach myself to quilt. I began as a self
taught traditional quilter. Although I used some patterns, I quickly
discovered that I preferred creating my own unique designs. Being a
prolific quilter, I quickly ran out of beds, sofas and cribs to cover.
This was also the time when I discovered that the traditional quilt
guild was no longer meeting my creative needs.
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| 'Out of the Blue' deals with
the struggle to escape depression |
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| This is a face on a bag that won 1st place in an "ugly fabric" challenge |
I have a blog, http://lindakittmer.blogspot.ca, where I post about my artistic passions. Art is relaxing and
therapeutic and I make every effort to spend time in my studio each and
every day. For me, art is the answer...no matter what the question!
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