Drawing Archives - Jane Mercer Felt Artist

Rocks

I went to Australia last November and one of the things I became entranced by was the rocks. Of course the koalas, penguins and kangeroos were lovely , but nothing like the rocks. With moving house I have not had time to look back at all the rock photos I took until this week . They give me lots of ideas for felted , natural dyed pictures. Firstly at the coast , pounded by the South Pacific seas, I loved the strata and circular patterns, and the repeating nature of the marks . Moving inland to the Grampians I thought the scenery was stunning. And when you got up close so were the rocks I am inspired again. I hope I will have time soon for some drawing and felting based on these photos.

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28/02/2016

Drawing / Textile art

Drawing for Textiles

For the last two weeks I have been taking an on-line course called Drawing for Textiles D4T by the wonderful textile artist Dionne Swift. In the first week I had fun drawing some small objects , really enlarged , using a variety of techniques. My objects ( some family heirlooms here) and examples of the large crazy drawings I made are below. I say crazy , because of the fun drawing techniques and because they felt to have little connection with the objects by the time I had finished - I think that was the idea really. We then had to seek out gems in the masses of lines. I found quite a few I liked and cut them out, making a little book for future reference. Then came the textile part. Using sewing and embellishing to make textile lines , in order to repaint the gems. Great fun even…

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21/06/2015