Folk Fest was going on while I was in town so I got to join in the chaos with the Hoskinsons. I love how involved they are in the music community there, I feel pretty lucky to get to be an honorary member with out being able to play more than a few notes. Nights of music at Centennial Hall were punctuated by the morning "Buddy Report" from Buddy Tabor. Damn that guy is funny...when he's not wandering the grave yard or mocking Rush.
I've been getting beadwork ready for the gallery opening at the beginning of May...brainstorming how to display the flat stuff with out frames. I want people to know it's fabric and beads, not a glassed in painting...texture on display. So with the heron, I'm putting in the twigs and will layer it on the blue and stiffen with pellon. Visual: is it better with the twig through his beak or just
below?
It's weird to me how the vertical line above his bill makes him feel trapped to me...or is it that he's in the swamp? Geez, I love a good annoying detail.
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I like it above. Give the piece more of a dimensional feel
Thanks Dot! I think I'm just spending too much time with my nose right up close to the piece.
I'm with Dot... it feels like you're actually watching it through the view finder of a camera...
not to be "one of the crowd" normally(yes that word and it's various forms can be used when my name is mentioned) I have to agree...I prefer it above the beak. Yes he is in the swamp, no he's not trapped, he's hiding....shhhhhhhhhhhh
Oh Cyn, you're such a swamp groupie! You're all right. I ended up doing the stick through the bill, but not as long as it is in the photo.
Just to be difficult: I think I like it below - but maybe extend one of the others thu the arc? :) Dulcey
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