From the Streets

November 20, 2022

It begins the first time a creative child shows artwork to Mom: “Look what I made!” thrilled when it gets taped to the refrigerator. The creative soul finds meaning in showing what’s been created to others.

Saturday morning the streets of my downtown were filled with clanks and clunks of tent poles being assembled into displays. Most artists worked from muscle memory at that point – a requirement when it is not yet light.

The tent city is erected. Artists hang or arrange their work. By the time even the early bird shoppers arrive, an art festival exists.

My display at the Fall Festival of the Arts DeLand

I enjoy every part of showing at this Festival, held in my hometown an easy ten minutes from my home.

I had experimented with some new construction methods, triptychs with a raw-edge canvas backing. Would people respond well? (Grateful – yes!)

I had created a number of smaller pieces for the Festival. Would that work yield sales? (Grateful – yes!)

I put together a body of work that I believe creates a cohesive statement of artmaking methods and content. Would the judges consider it worthy? (Grateful – yes! I received an Award of Merit.)

Mostly a day of showing at a festival is a day of conversations and storytelling. I have learned how to describe my work in a very few short sentences for those unfamiliar with what I do or textile work generally. (The marketing phrase for this is “the elevator speech,” the answer you would provide on an elevator to the query, “What do you do?” It’s an important skill.)

I had lots of great conversations with other artmakers interested in technical issues.

And the behind-the-scenes with other artists, the friendships formed quickly with those who will be your neighbor for the weekend, are always meaningful. I was between a very fine painter and a very fine printmaker.

After day two comes breakdown. Clank clank as tent poles come down. Re-pack the car. Mental inventory making sure everything is in place. Then, during the short drive home comes the first deep breath. Done! Begin to unwind. Now I think it’s time tz z zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Shhhh. Don’t wake the artist. Before nodding off, Bobbi wrote: If you would like to look more closely at one of the new raw-edge canvas pieces, you can find it on my website HERE

(I’ll get the second one up on my website this week.)

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading.
I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi
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Creating artwork. Showing artwork.

November 13, 2022

This has been the week of tropical storm Nicole. Our part of the state received nothing more than a few rainy windy days. But it was enough for many activities to be cancelled. For me, hunkering down = studio time.

I have one portion of my brain focused on the Fall Festival of the Arts in downtown DeLand, one week from today. Time for showing.

But, this weekend I am finishing up some last-minute smaller projects. Time for creating.

Here’s what I’ve been looking at today:

The results of lots of color-mixing. I may only mix a few spoonfuls of color at a time, but there’s usually paint leftover. I put plastic wrap over the palette (a Styrofoam plate) hoping to save it for the next day when I might need just a pinch more of that color. (I know this tabletop will not win me any good housekeeping awards! In the middle of projects, this is just how it looks.)

Silkscreens washed out and drying. I had some productive fast-n-furious screen printing sessions this afternoon.

A few collages-in-progress on my worktable. These are monotype printed thin papers collaged to watercolor paper, with screen printing as part of the composition.

Now, sitting here at my computer to write is a welcomed change of pace in the day. I can begin to shift to the longer-term project: showing the artwork.

I only do a few in-person events each year. They provide a chance to meet lots of folks in person, show my work, and talk about it.

As I do the work of gathering and packing my display parts this week, I hope to provide my brain some space to remember the purpose of all this artmaking.

Why do I spend time in the studio?
What are the things that interest me?
What do I hope a viewer will see?
What questions will be raised?
How do the ideas that interest me mesh with my ways of creating?

My experience from talking with festival-goers is that people are really interested in what the art means. They enjoy hearing the stories behind the work and inserting their own stories and experiences in them too.

Within the family of artists, when we get together we frequently focus on the “how-to” part of artmaking. What brand paint? How do you achieve that effect? And that’s all OK.

Talking to people who are not artists, however, is the chance to remember and explain the “why” part of artmaking.

In addition to the smaller works I’ve been finishing this week, I’ll have some larger quilts and textile collages to show.

You are invited! If you are near central Florida, I hope you will visit downtown DeLand Saturday and Sunday November 19-20 to experience our fabulous art festival. I’m in booth 133. Come by and say hi.

For those further away, I appreciate your notes and well-wishes.

Cheers.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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Finding Meaning in the Small

November 6, 2022

Yesterday my morning on our porch included delightful, unexpected interruptions.

A batch of new birds, tiny wren-like splashes of activity – were in the branches of the ligustrum that’s right up next to the porch screen. I could hear the whisper of their movements. I could see them only briefly. They flew in, they hopped about, and they were gone.

There had been a brief rain before sunrise. Their movements created a short-lived waterfall of collected water from leaves down onto the branches below them.

I wonder sometimes why I enjoy birds so much. Aside from the obvious reasons (Birdsong. Color. Flashes of movement. The way they tilt their heads) I think they spark in me the sense of pretend I had when I was a child.

I enjoyed pretending I was the little animal and that I lived in the tree. I wondered what it would be like. I enjoyed imagining the transformations – how what appears as a small twig to me from my human perspective would be a much larger object to a little bird. How big a berry would seem!

I enjoyed the idea of being hidden.

So, here I am, all grown up and with a studio and time to create, still enjoying the world of birds.

When I screen printed this tree in parts, it allowed me to mix it up a little. All the parts don’t fit together just neatly. And I blended black with luscious phthalo blue.

This is part of the pretend experience. A tree and some birds are recognizable forms, but I have not created them to be realistic – not like a photograph, or an Audubon illustration.

This environment is not scary, but it is complex. There are a lot of parts. This helps to emphasize that the birds are little. Little innocents in a complex world.

I realize as I write this evening that I may be drawn to this kind of image tonight as a way to escape the reality of what’s coming this week. I am dreading our midterm elections. I will do the right grownup things. I have followed issues and candidates, I have given to the ones I support, and I will support the process as a designated poll watcher. I voted. This environment, however actually is scary. Scary and complex.

So, if your emotional life is in any way in the same place, I invite you to enter the world of the small creatures, hop about largely hidden by branches and twigs and – for a short while – live in pretend.

This blog post did not go quite where I expected. But I guess this is what was inside waiting to be written. Thanks for reading.

The collage depicted in this post is “Where We have Been All Along.” It’s on my website. For more information, click HERE.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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Returning to an idea

October 30, 2022

I began this morning as I generally do. The first one awake. Coffee and some good poetry books on our screened porch. Enjoying the cool air. Waiting for the hummingbird.

I had my poetry writing journal – as I usually do – but writing does not always occur. This morning, though, some words I had written a week ago in my writing group were ready to turn into a new thing.

Responding to the prompt “taillights” I had written a memory prose piece that I thought had some nice elements and the possibility of becoming a poem. (In my writing group we just draw a prompt and then write flat out for ten minutes. No planning. No revising. We get what we get. It’s a way to unearth ideas.)

The taillights concept has stayed in the back of my mind. I have turned the words over and around as I have been working on other things.

The ideas have had time to cook. So, this morning they came together for me.

I have a good poem first draft. Now I’ll revise and refine. (And maybe let it cook some more.)

Later today in the studio I experienced something similar with a large quilt I had put aside for about ten days. I was not frustrated when I set it aside. I just had other projects with more pressing deadlines. I have been looking forward to pulling the pieces out of their storage spot and getting them back on the easel.

Today was that day.

This work will be a three-panel exploration of a home near water. “There by water I will build my home.”

It combines several things that interest me.

First – home. I have explored home and what it means as a part of one’s journey in many different ways over several years. Some of the works are storytelling. Some are more conceptual.

Second – landscapes that combine photo reality with other kinds of fabric surface design. So far in this work, I have transferred images of rippling water in a pond and tree limbs against a sky and the architectural detail of a wooden window. I like all the parts.

Returning to this work today – having taken some time away from it – has been a gift. I believe the finished piece will be better for the “cooking” time.

Here’s where I am as of today. What’s already completed contains the hard part: Lots of stitching for quilting and construction. What will come next will be more pleasing work: deepening the surface and adding layers.

Ideas can benefit from a bit of time. Interior work may still be happening even when the project has been physically put away for a while.

Todays’ realizations were nice affirmations and reminders.

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Fall Festival of the Arts DeLand is only a few weeks away. I always enjoy exhibiting in my hometown Festival. It’s a great quality event—if you are nearby I hope you’ll make a point to attend. See me in booth 133.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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Design and Collage – Some Ideas and Tips

October 23, 2022

In between some larger projects in the studio, I made time this week for a few small paper collages.

This was really just for me. The larger projects have been hard and time-consuming. I needed some small collage therapy.

As always I enjoyed the process. And, I remembered some good methods and practices to share with you.

PRACTICE AND PREP ALWAYS PAYS OFF!

Here’s the very beginning of a collage-in progress. Well, I say it’s the beginning, but it’s not. Over the past few weeks I made some time to prepare a batch of collaged papers in colors and textures I am interested in using. (Printed as monotypes on my gelatin plate; thin tissue paper.)

Now, when I’m inspired to begin the design and assembly, the papers are waiting for me.

I created papers that are mostly neutral. I have learned to fight my basic instinct to begin with strong colors. (Always tempting - because they are just so wonderful!) But, when those go down first, there’s no place left to go. Here, I have one intense section – the deep blue – and two faded, neutral sections. Now I can build on these.

NEW DESIGN TOOL – SEE-THROUGH SILKSCREENED TEMPLATES

Another investment in prep I made recently: transparent vinyl templates. In the picture above, I am holding a piece of vinyl that I screen printed with one of the screens I use from time to time. This is such a GREAT way to work out designs. I can move the vinyl all around, combine it with others, rotate it, or flip it to print mirror image. Fast, visual designing.

The brown trees in this picture are the pieces of vinyl I have laid down on the collage to test that pattern and placement. Yes. I want to print that and I want to print it there.

The black branches are now screen printed directly onto the collage-in-progress. I can feel pretty confident about how it will look by using the see-through pieces.

STEP BACK TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE

These paper artworks will be presented in a black mat. I keep one of the mats handy so I can check the composition in the mat regularly as I work. Seeing the piece in its final frame makes a big difference.

However you plan to present a work, try to think about that size, border color, and straightness as you work. Otherwise it’s easy to get absorbed in the details and paint yourself into a corner.

CIRCLES AND ANGLES

The circles in this picture are embroidery hoops. I purchased a whole set of about a dozen in all sizes for just a few dollars at a thrift store. So useful! As with the vinyl pieces, I can design fast and visually just by moving them around to find the right spot and the right size. I sometimes also use the hoop as a painting guide and stencil.

Angles – In the picture above, I have my backing board propped up on an angle on my work table. (I generally use gallon containers of paint for this purpose.) It’s important, once you reach the designing stage, that you look at work-in-progress at the correct angle.

That’s why painters stand at their easels. That’s why quilt artists pin thing up on a vertical design wall to check on work as it evolves.

Standing at my worktable, if my work is flat and my head is on an angle looking down, I am perceiving a distortion. Just a bit of angle solves the problem.

KILLING FLATNESS

I will be adding a few little birds to these collaged works. I cut them out of printed muslin to be collaged into place. But, against the delicate printed tissue paper, these little pieces of fabric looked dull and lifeless. I decided to add just a tad of hand painted acrylic as a wash to create some depth and interest. I think they are much more appealing now.

Doing this work on a piece BEFORE incorporating it into the artwork allows me to be freer with experimenting. If I mess it up, all I’ve ruined is a little fabric scrap. I can make another one.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this little visit to the studio with works-in-progress.

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Just a reminder – If you are in Central Florida I hope you’ll come visit this wonderful, juried Festival in my hometown. I’ll be exhibiting. Please stop by and say hi.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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How She Got There

October 16, 2022

Sometimes the sense of movement comes within a single work of art.

Sometimes there can be a sense of movement over time, from one work to the next.

I am interested in the concept of journey. I enjoy exploring the ideas of beginning in one place and ending in another.

I’m pleased that three of my works will be included in a Miami-wide textile event “Threading the City.” These works will exhibit at the Mexican Consulate in Miami from late October, 2022 – January, 2023.

My works deal with inner journeys. They will be part of an exhibit focusing on migrant experiences.

The biplane traverses two panels of the triptych. The girl on the wing is in a precarious place, with danger lurking in the water below. The girl is semi-transparent and simplified… a dream?

What is she doing out there on the wing? Where is she going? Is she adventurous? Is she trying to get away?

One can look at her and think either, “Go girl!” or “Get down from there you’ll be killed!”

This work depicts a journey that – for now – is on hold. “Adrift.” Again the girl is perched on the edge.

I drew the girl in this one this one with more detail.

The ocean is vast and complex. It’s a simple composition: a small boat on a big sea.

Finally the girl is on land, looking back at the journey she has travelled.

She is small and the ocean is large.

Her simplified, paper-doll-like rendering speaks to her innocence.

We don’t know whether or not this was a journey she wanted to take.

It is interesting to me to see these three works together. I created them at different times over the course of several years, not intending that they work together. When I create in an intentional series, it is my hope that the ideas from one work to the next will speak to each other. But, in this case, the related ideas are more like evidence of ideas and concepts that are just part of what I think about.

So – however I got there – here I am.

If you would like more information about these works – and other storytelling works – you can find them on my website in the gallery of Journeys and stories; HERE

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR: NOVEMBER 19-20
Downtown DeLand, Florida – my home town!
If you are near Central Florida, I encourage you to visit this great event of about 175 juried artists. I’ll be exhibiting in booth 133. Stop by and say “hi!”

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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Building Color on Color

October 9, 2022

Color is wonderful.

Color on color can be even wonderfuller! (That’s a word. I’m sure of it.)

I had two different color adventures this week. One was a fix of something printed before on paper that I did not like. The second was a create-from-scratch color build on fabric.

First, the color rescue on paper

These are some paper sheets I printed a few months ago. I can’t remember what project I created them for. I only know that once they were done I didn’t like them at all. (And – wouldn’t you know – I had printed a BUNCH of them.) I just don’t like baby blue. And I had mixed up a baby blue (cerulean plus white) so that it would overprint the darker blue background. To me, the leaves are just pasty looking. I can’t think of a way I would ever want to use these sheets.

Time to overprint.

Here’s my set up ready to over print. I’ve mixed a blue color that has a lot more teal in it. (Phthalo blue plus raw sienna.) I’ll re-print my papers as monotypes on the gelatin plate. The teal color will very slightly alter the background blue color and will kill the pastiness in the leaves

Inking up the plate. (Vocabulary note: I actually print with acrylic paints, not printing inks. But, I always learned to use the word “ink” as a verb when it means putting the printing material on the plate. So I say “inking up” even though I’m “painting up.”)

Here’s the paper with the pasty leaves ready to be pressed into the teal color.

The result. The shape of the leaves is still visible, but much more muted. And I have killed the baby blue!

Project two: building up color from scratch on cotton fabric.

This is a piece of fabric about 40” square. I do not use a lot of red, but I have a project that will need a nice red splash and so I wanted it to be interesting. What pleases me about this piece is the richness of the red hues. I combined unlike reds together on the palette: cadmium red (which has a red-orange base) and alizarin crimson (a magenta base) plus just a tad or pre-mixed pink. I thought the colors might fight each other. Instead I think they enhanced each other.

I enjoyed playing with some positive-negative shapes with stencils. All of the images on this fabric were created either with stencils or by overprinting textures that I placed beneath the fabric before painting.

So… What to do with colorful fabrics and paper? For someone who enjoys the process of the surface design as much as I do, sometimes, I need to remind myself, “Oh yeah. It’s to be incorporated into art!” Otherwise, I can just fall in love with making fabric.

Here are a few of my small collages pieces that use layers of printed fabric or layers of printed paper.

“**Within the Harboring Silence**.” on my website.. Learn more **HERE**

“**Through All of its Worlds**” on my website Learn more **HERE**

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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After the Storm

October 2, 2022

This storm experience has been strange for us.

The day before Hurricane Ian hit, the weather was unusually beautiful. It was hard to believe the stories of big winds churning the Gulf.

Then it hit land, and we saw stories of folks in the southwest part of Florida just slammed. Then it came through our part of Florida. LOTS of rain. Wind pounding the windows through the night. But…

It is with a sincerely grateful heart I look about our town and see little more than downed limbs. Most people have power. We did not lose power at all.

The big limb that fell in our yard fell in the exact spot where our car normally parks, and we had moved it. And as we worked outdoors the next day trying to cut it up with a way-too-small saw, a neighbor we had never met came by with a chain saw and a truck and helped us clear out the driveway. They had just been out driving to see who might need help.

And here, today, another day just blindingly beautiful.

Life is precarious.

Life is precious.

Life is capricious.

I can hardly imagine the day today of those who are not able to get back to their homes at all, or who are picking through sodden remains of where they lived.

It could have been us.

So, I’m just checking in, still processing the immensity of it all.

I was in the studio working away during much of the storm and will be back to sharing the art journey next week.

Best wishes to all.
Bobbi

This 'n That and finishing touches

September 25, 2022

This has been a weekend of studio juggling – a few different things in various stages of completion.

Friday I enjoyed a wild and furious session of fabric painting outdoors with my art friend Karol. We are working on a collaborative project, a very different experience for me. I’m sure I’ll have more to write about it in months ahead.

For now I’m enjoying looking at some of our painted yardage. We started with light in the back and just kept adding deeper color and textures, each of us contributing to each piece. Working outdoors we had the freedom to splash and spatter if so inspired. (We’re using acrylics on cotton muslin, in varying degrees of wet and dry as we worked.) Here’s a bit of our handiwork.

Meanwhile I’m working my way through the content section of this piece, which is aimed at social commentary. I’ll just share a face-in-progress and let you guess where this might be going.

Then it was time for serious work. I’m thrilled that my 2-panel work, “Discerning What is Real” was accepted into the Q=A=Q exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, New York. It’s a competitive show and I am excited to be a part of it.

BUT… part of the work of exhibiting is packing and shipping. (Ugh.) I created this 72”W piece in two panels, both for the composition interest, and to help with the logistics of shipping.

(For those who wonder about hanging an art quilt on the wall, take a look at this picture in the lower right. It shows the back of the other panel. I stitch a pocket across the top, created with a bit of ease so the hanging rod doesn’t show from the front side. The finished hole in the pocket at the top allows a D-ring to be attached to the hanging dowel. This will hang easily on a regular nail or picture hook.)

My works do not roll up small and tight as many quilters’ works do. Constructing with collage and painting surfaces with acrylics creates a stiffer final artwork. But, I can soft-fold safely to keep the shipping box size down.

After it’s soft-folded, I insert the quilt into a plastic bag for protection.

Now for the box. I buy a single size box to use for a variety of different sized items to ship. It is never exactly the right dimension, almost always requiring cutting down or building a custom box. For this work, I had to use one and a half of my standard boxes glued together. (Trade secret: wood glue is the best box-building glue, or a combination of wood glue + hot glue if you need things to set up fast.) Here it is, with the glued seams weighted, ready to fold up and assemble.

I am box woman!!!

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This week here in Florida, we are watching the track of the next hurricane, having watched Fiona wallop our friends in the north. I send my hopes for safety to all those in these storms’ paths. The next one may head our way or it may stay on the other side of the state. We’ll know in a few days. I hope to be safe and dry a week from now in time to post next Sunday.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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Ideas in a small space

September 18, 2022

This week will be the second week of SAQA’s annual artwork auction.

SAQA – Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. – is an organization I am a member of and that I support. There are a LOT of textile artists who enjoy supporting SAQA – this year there are over 400 donated quilts! Each quilt is 12” x 12”.

At the bottom of this post I have put in the links to the auction which will take you to the site with artwork and bidding instructions.

For now, inspired by looking at the incredible variety of works donated, I’m thinking about communicating ideas in a small space. I don’t generally create small works. I like to work as large as I can handle. But the demands of small spaces are good learning experiences

“Outside Looking In” was my donation in 2019. Paring things down is a good idea for a small work. Have one big idea and develop it. In this one, the idea is the bird looking through the window. Just about all the space is dedicated to that, and the very restrained palette keeps from distracting from this central idea.

“Outside-Inside” was my 2020 donation. The idea of this one is a lot like the bird-and-window work from 2019. There is a character on the outside, and things hidden within the windows. Because the picture plane has more things going on (a character, a shadow, a sidewalk and two windows) I used very strong contrasts to keep it from being overwhelming. This divided the picture space into distinct parts. I worked to find just the right shape for the little girl. I think – even as a simple silhouette – she is expressive.

“Welcome Home” was my 2021 donation. I think I did some things right: The shadows on the building wall work well. The leaves on the left establish a strong foreground and depth. The diagonal orange in the foreground adds some energy. For me, however, I did not feel like it captured the emotion I had hoped for. This is based on a photo of a house I have visited many times belonging to a friend in Maine. It has very strong emotional connotations for me. But the piece I created did not match the emotion I attach to that place. For the work to reflect my memories, I’d need more space and the ability to develop more distance and add some softer shadows.

“Completing the Circle” is my donation for this current auction. I especially like this photo of ripples in water. (I have incorporated it into several of my larger works.) I was pleased with the way the photo blends into the non-photo portions of the composition. And I was also pleased with the sense of depth and layers – not so much of physical space, but the suggestion of time/space and a story.

If this blog post has whet your appetite to do some shopping, please visit saqa.com/auction. Section 1 quilts were auctioned last week. Section 2 quilts will be available starting tomorrow, September 19. Purchases on day 1 are for $750, and the price per quilt goes down each day. (So the shopping is a fun adventure. Do you splurge on day 1 to get the one you want most, or hold out hoping it’s not snatched up and available for a bargain day 2 or 3?)

My quilt “Completing the Circle” is in group two. I will enjoy watching to see if it finds a buyer. I’d be honored to have this work make a good contribution to SAQA.

Find the auction here https://www.saqa.com/auction

Finally, an update on the piece I wrote about last week.

This is a detail image of the finished work, “Different Light Remembered.” If you would like to see the whole collage and learn more, it’s on my website **HERE**

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

bobbi@bobbibaughstudio.com

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Building Layers toward Warm

September 11, 2022

This week I have been immersed in rich warm orange-red colors, and a piece that will use them as a layer. (This an application of the tree ideas I posted about last week)

This work is a good example of working from back-to-front in building up layers of color and pattern. I started with the very background – a piece of natural canvas, ripped to size for a natural edge and primed for paint and collage

Next, I monotype-printed some yardage of a neutral color in a subtle but warm gold. It’s printed on sheer polyester. When it’s collaged onto the canvas it disappears as a separate layer and looks like part of the canvas. It will create a parchment-like background.

I created this nest section by sponge-painting cotton muslin with acrylics. (I worked a little bit of stenciling into the background so it’s not just solid orange. You can see some squares and faint honeycomb shapes.) On top of that I screen printed a series of trees in a darker orange tone. (cadmium red + raw umber.)

So far, it’s pretty stark and disconnected. I look at this and see a big orange square on a blank space.

What comes next will be the process of adding different colors (I’m leaning towards greens) in the bottom third of the piece. I haven’t gotten to that part yet.

But I did get as far as working a bit more interest into the orange section so it’s not so monolithic. I like the addition of these paper honeycomb sections .

More to come on this piece.

Meanwhile, I did complete another work on canvas that I’ve been depicting in posts for a few weeks now. This is Remembering The Way.

If you would like to learn more about it and see the whole artwork, you can find it on my website HERE

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Finally… just sharing something that’s very important to me. Here in Florida, and in many states across the US, there is a growing animosity towards teachers and public schools. (Not me. I am teachers’ biggest fan!)

It is taking the form of a political movement to ban books, under the guise of parental rights. I think this is a very wrong-headed. However this is playing out where you live, I ask you to pay attention.

And, if you think as I do on the subject, please do whatever you can in your area to make your voice heard. Letters to the editor are good. How you vote counts. How we talk to our friends and neighbors counts. I posted the picture and text below on my Instagram and Facebook feeds hoping that my little drop in the ocean of discourse might be productive. Feel free to copy it and share it in whatever way you share ideas. Thanks.

Thought for the weekend . . . Really! Do we even have to say this? Apparently so. I’ve just been reading articles about literacy projects around the world changing lives as students finally receive long-sought-after books. And, here, where books are plentiful and school is free, people actually want to BAN books? This is a truly bad idea. We should tell our elected representatives we think so. If a book offends your family’s core values, I respect that. Feel free not to read it, and ask your child not to read it. Done. Let the rest of the world learn.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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Working out ideas (over and over!)

September 4, 2022

When I’m stuck in the “I’m-not-there-yet” place in an art project – as I am now – after spending a fair amount of time feeling dissatisfied with myself and the world in general; it helps me to remember the basics.

Oh yeah. Sketching. And working out ideas on paper. What a good idea!

I have created a series of small silkscreens that form a large tree. I like this tree. And I have a size that particularly interest me for a while – a vertical wall hanging about 24” x 40.” And I sense that there is a nice series here, waiting to be developed. But I’m not there yet.

Must be time to pull out the sketchbooks. I keep sketchbooks full of ideas. And, it’s mostly ideas that I record.

Quick thumbnail sketches that encapsulate an idea is what I’m I’m going for. No concern yet with technique, or even color. (I do better considering color separately, after the idea is further along.)

For this current tree series, I’m using good ol’ paper cut and paste to put together composition ideas, for several reasons:

First, I am working towards a specific size. So, printing out rectangles in that proportion will keep me thinking in the space that I will actually have to work with.

Second, the tree image I have is very detailed, and the actual image has a certain “feel” to it. If I just suggested quickie tree-like lines in my thumbnails, they would not convey the same feel that the printed tree will have.

Once I’ve cut out the tree and placed it into the rectangle in different ways, I can do quick ballpoint pen sketching on top of that to work out what other elements I’ll be using. (Mostly framing elements and positive-negative variations.)

In just a short time of experimenting , my mind is in gear. I can now see where this series can go.

I’ll look at my various mockups and envision them in different colors. (A next sketching assignment may be just creating various color combinations with oil pastels or crayons.)

So. I’m still not there yet. But I am out of being stuck and excited to jump into the next stages. Stay tuned!

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The SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) annual auction is coming SOON! I hope you will participate.

Each year members of SAQA create 12” x 12” works that are donated to SAQA. They are all available to see online, and all the bidding is online. They are grouped in flights, offered over several days, with prices highest on day one and decreasing each day. It’s fun to spend time checking them out in advance and then tracking your favorites.

Here’s where you go to see the works, participate and to find instructions:

https://events.handbid.com/auctions/2022-saqa-benefit-auction/items

And here is the quilt I created for the auction. I’d be honored to have it purchased to support. SAQA. Happy shopping!

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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Hello Old Friend

August 28, 2022

Today I revisited an old friend.

She is a quilt I created in 2017.

And she is the-inner-me in an earlier stage of life.

I presented an art talk to a textile art group in North Florida today and I took a number of quilts with me to share. That’s how I happened to look again at “Neither Here Nor There.”

I remember the process of creating this work. My neighbor was a teenager at the time, and she posed for me sitting in a ladderback chair. I worked from my reference photos. It is primarily a whole cloth painting with collaged layers on the form of the girl, and then the collaged addition of the tree form and the leaves and the bird.

I was very involved in the life of this girl as I created the work. I collaged the layered fabric over her face and body to build up the skin tones. I drew in the features and the outline with oil pastel. And I stitched her form both to hold it all together and to add texture.

Preparing to speak to the group today, I tried to think of what it is we strive for as artmakers. What will make us feel complete in the work we do. And what we recognize in the work of others when it speaks to us.

It’s having a strong concept of what the work is about – and then an execution that realizes that concept in the finished piece.

This work did that for me. I remember very clearly times in my own journey when I felt neither here nor there – between places – between life stages. That experience can involve dreaming and wondering, which I what I strove to depict in this quilt. It can also involve pain and indecision. That is not depicted in this work specifically, but it was part of what I thought about as I worked on the piece.

So, it was nice to visit this old friend again today.

(If you would like to learn more about “Neither Here Nor There”, it is on my website HERE)

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The next stage of “The Artist’s Question: Exhibit. I am proud to have a piece of work in the traveling exhibit featuring work by SAQA artists in Florida and other gulf states. Its next opening is Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope Alabama. Details below. If that’s close to where you are, I hope you’ll have a chance to see the exhibit. (My work is shown: “Nor Could Our Hands Catch Them.”)

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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About horizons and abstraction

August 21, 2022

I spent Saturday morning with my local art / surface design group in New Smyrna Beach. We meet monthly and have been spending our days together with each working on our own project.

I was drawing – using a grid and rendering a scene of three figures – working very hard to get the proportions and angles right. It was HARD!

But as I was drawing I was thinking of abstract work, and a great studio visit I had with several fellow artists this week. While they visited we looked at a number of my paper collaged works. We shared that we both love abstract work but find that creating it is hard. For me, abstract composition is HARDER that representational.

Creating collaged works has taught me a lot. One of my key takeaways is that It helps me to establish a horizon line.

To know where to begin. To know where I am.

***The Middle Ground Between*** Paper Collage

I began this abstract landscape with a sense of sky above and ground below. OK. I’m grounded now. I can begin to arrange the parts with some looseness and not-completely-representational sensibility because I have a sense of space.

This composition has a very strong horizon line. That gave me a way to think about what forms would go where. Underground is more mysterious. Above ground is knowable, more realistic.

Here are a couple in which the horizon is less defined. But it’s there, guiding the composition.

***Waiting for The Next Sky*** Paper Collage

***Within the Harboring Silence*** Paper Collage

When my studio friends departed I spent some time looking at this collage.

***The Form Exists to be Found*** Paper Collage

I have created several pieces with a similar pattern. An underlying grid. Then collaged pieces or painted forms going across the underlying structure. Then something large with a reversal to let the underneath colors show through.

Of every four of these I try, I end up throwing away two. But, when it works out, the process is very pleasing to me. I confess that I like this composition a lot. I built it out of layers of monotype-printed tissue paper. I let the colors and patterns evolve.

I enjoy the work of artists who go about building the picture plane in ways quite different from me: organic splashes of energetic color. For me, at last so far, I can wade into new or interesting patterns and layers best when I have a horizon to hold on to.

If you would like to learn more about the works in this blog post, they are all on my website (and, whaddaya know, available for purchase) here: WEDNESDAY COLLAGE GALLERY.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi
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Sticks. Twigs. Branches. I like ‘em all

August 14, 2022

I’ve been working on twig-filled images in the studio this week.

That’s interesting to me.
Sticks, twigs, branches: I like them all.

In my home in the living room, I have a beautiful ceramic vessel built by my daughter when she was in grad school.

I love this vessel. And I love the way its massive, organic form contrasts with the simple twigs we found to insert into it.

Twigs are like that. They are interesting in themselves, and also play nicely with other forms.

TWIGS ARE INTRICATE
Captured in a photograph, their overlapping shapes just draw me in. I want to look into and beyond the patterns.

TWIGS CAPTURE COLOR BEAUTIFULLY
Here is the section of the piece I am working on that I transferred to fabric then enhanced with acrylic washes.

I like the purple shadows in the background. I like the warm tones of the wood pieces.

TWIGS INSPIRE ABSTRACTIONS

Because I like to mix and match photographs with other surface design methods, I’m inspired when the images I’ve captured can translate to abstract pattern.

I respond to this fabric section. It speaks well in the work with the actual twigs and branches. But I haven’t tried to recreate the shape of twigs and branches realistically. Their overlapping patterns provided a starting point.

TWIGS CREATE STITCHING PATHWAYS

Here’s a little detail where my quilting stitches have been inspired by the shapes in the photograph.

Doing this stitching work by machine becomes a way for me to experience the complexity. As I am going back and forth along the lines of the twigs and branches, I am amazed at the complexity of the shapes. I would never think these up on my own. I then enjoy combining the twig-inspired stitches with simpler, linear patterns in nearby fabric sections.

As I was writing this post I looked back over some artwork on my website. It looks like I’ve been interested in twigs and branches in various forms for a while now. Here is a piece I created several years ago as a paper collage.

Because this composition is built from monotype printed shapes on rice paper, the images have been simplified. But I can see that I was still interested in the vitality of stick images.

More recently, I have explored branches, twigs as part of whole tree forms. Here’s a detail of “Discerning What is Real,” an art quilt inspired by trees and water near my home.

One last great characteristic of twigs and branches: you never run out of models. After virtually every rain storm our old oak tree provides me with interesting new material. Right in the driveway. Then I run for my camera!

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To learn more:
The first blog post I wrote about the work I am describing tonight was July 24. It describes the concept of the project. HERE

Earth Studies VII, VIII and IX is on my website HERE

“Discerning What is Real” is on my website HERE

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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In the studio for some screen printing

August 7, 2022

Trees came to life on my worktable this morning.

Some time spent screen printing yielded images I can use – and a successful experiment.

Here I am getting everything ready.

A few things to note in this picture:

Masking tape: I have the fabrics I am going to print taped down to a surface. You don’t want them to slip and slide once you begin.

Which side is up? It’s easy to make the mistake of printing the screen with the wrong side down. Yes – this is experience talking here.

For many images, like these trees, either side will work. (More detailed images, or images containing text that has to be right-reading have to print from only one side of the screen.) But the appearance of the image in one direction, as opposed to its mirror image, may be the one you have in mind

Clean up tray always ready: If you are printing with acrylic paints (that’s what I use) you need to be ready to clean out your screen right away. A shallow tray like the white plastic one in my picture is very handy. Right after I print, I plop the screen in the tray, then walk out my studio door to the garden hose for wash-out. It helps to keep the tray behind the screen when cleaning it out so the screen stays flat and a strong whoosh of water won’t damage it. Be nice to your screens.

Positive or negative? I had this same image made as a positive (I print the shape of the limbs) and as a negative (I print the background around the trees and the limbs appear as the fabric color.) The two screens look very much alike. I mark mine positive and negative so I don’t get mixed up. Yes – more voice of experience here.

Here is some hand-painted fabric printed with both the positive and the negative image. I like the way they work together and will probably use these side-by-side in the finished project.

Here is a small piece I created with a specific placement in mind. It will go into a collage-in-progress. I wanted the tree limbs to cross over different fabrics, as a way to unify those fabric backgrounds. And, on the right where the limbs are printed on the grey sheet, I will be cutting out those limbs manually and collaging them into position. So, one hit of the screen will now go across three different backgrounds.

And here is my experiment:

I am going to be working on a series of wall pieces in which I want to create variations-on-a-theme with a larger tree image. This one is about 18”H. But that height exceeds the image area of the screen. So, I created my image in sections and broke it into 5 different screens. To print one tree, I print with the 5 screens, one at a time, lining them up by eye.

You can see a dividing line through the limbs where sections met. In many works, this would just add a little interest to the tree. (I might even line them up a bit “off” sometimes just for interest.) But, If I want a more realistic look without gaps, I can touch up the gaps by hand with paint.

And now to meet an old friend.

Here is my new printed image next to a hand-cut card stock stencil from my stencil collection. I have used it many times. The character of the tree shape is quite different from the new tree. But I’m anxious to experiment with using them together. I can envision the stencil tree used as a resist, with a loose sponge painting in muted grey tones as a background to the new tree creating a foreground.

One more note: For artmakers who want to experiment, there are a number of places to purchase silkscreens with stock images on them, or commercially produced stencils. (Just do some googling.) But, I only use my own original images. The screens I use are from my original photos, and my stencils I design and cut by hand.

I’m looking forward to incorporating these pieces into some new projects.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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Where Do Ideas Come From?

July 31, 2022

I am learning to be more observant.

I want to be more observant.

I choose to be more observant.

*(Detail, “Looking Below the Surface,” Art quilt. )*

Returning from a morning swim, during my drive home I keep windows open and radio off. And I remember what I’ve seen. Thin young girls with small triangles over parts of their bodies. Moving together in groups – like birds – testing their newfound powers. Colorful floats. Light going down into the water.

The very beautiful woman I observed. Mid-fifties. Big round body. A black tank suit. Not inappropriately skimpy, not modest like she was ashamed of her shape. Sitting by the side of the pool. Feeling sun on her back. Wiggling her toes. Confident in her body.

The songbirds in our yard. Only sometimes visible. Sometimes hidden in the branches. To walk by the tree is to wonder if the tree itself is singing.

The hibiscus by our front porch. Knocking me out this morning with an exuberant red somewhere between cadmium red and coral. Amazing. Four big blooms. Opening even during my time there on the porch.

Observing. Then making note of what you see.

Sometimes what I see finds its way into a sketch. Sometimes I more drawn to words.

Ways to make sense of what you observe.

So. This week I had the chance to make a presentation to a quilt-making group here in Central Florida. Great group. Great experience. And one question was, “Do you just have all these ideas in your head and they pop out? Where do ideas come from?”

Yes my head is filled with ideas. All the time. No, they don’t just pop out. But I am learning to cultivate them. More each day. I hope.

. . . . .

A new poem for you, from my swimming observations. Enjoy.

The Polka Dot Flotilla

The polka dot flotilla
bobs in the springs every morning.
In the water wearing wide hats
and sunglasses.
They are draped over orange – pink – lime
pool floats each forming a wide U.
Looped beneath their ample arms.
They kick and float and talk their way
around the swimming area.

I have named them.
Winona. Florence. Eleanor.
Their voices weave harmonies of words
that float across the water.
Oh yes. Mmmm-hmmm. I’ve tried that.
Did you know? Well I’ve heard.
A textured hymn I have listened to before
in Baptist kitchens
when the floaters are on dry land
serving the Lord.

Winona, one morning, leaves her hat
by the poolside.
With one long breath she begins
a strong crawl stroke
straight across the pool.
And back. They watch her.
I didn’t know she could do that.

Till that morning, neither did she.

. . . . . . . . . .

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading. I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi
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"Home" as visual prose. "Home" as visual poem

July 24, 2022

If you looked at my studio at the end of today, you’d be able to tell.

I’m in the middle of something.

It’s not all worked out. There are lots of components. There are some interesting images. Some things don’t seem to belong next to other things. Some fabrics are drying. Some are laying in stacks.

*This original photo, transferred to fabric, will be part of my new textile piece.*

It is, so far, a pile of parts.

What’s going on involves content I have dealt with before (home, and the journey from home) and a transformation in how I want to portray the ideas.

It feels like the difference between prose and poetry.

For me, a prose-like approach to the idea of home will involve storytelling. There will be a character and a setting and some suggestion of plot. It will be a way to deal with memories and personal story.

A poetry-like approach will be less directed. I hope to include a number of sensory images, and a mix of recognizable objects with pattern and shape, to allow the viewer just to imagine, or wonder, or put the elements together in his own way.

That’s about as far as I have progressed with this new project for now. Not too much to show.

So, for contrast, I invite you to see this little 3-minute video I made a few years ago that shows a storytelling approach to the concept of home. Enjoy! (Click on the picture to view)

If you would like to learn more about the quilt from the video (“So It Will Not Break in Two”) as well as other home-inspired art quilts, I hope you will visit the Gallery called “Home is What You Remember” on my website, HERE.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
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Thank you for reading.
I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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All in green: Leaves and shapes

July 17, 2022

Leaves. Trees. Green. Shapes. Leaves again. All side-by-side.

This week I’m in the beginning stages of a new quilt project.

I will be building this artwork around some original photos featuring sunlight through vines and trees. I will hope to create a feeling of being immersed in the foliage.

Construction is still a few weeks off. For now, it’s a day for creating parts. Mostly green parts.

MIXING: I try to work with a very limited palette and then mix my colors. I don’t buy green paint. Here’s an example of the rich variations available in creating green. Yellow + Burnt Umber + Cerulean blue. Mixed in one proportion, a golden-olive green hue is created. Mixed in another proportion (more blue) the kelly green hue is created

I’m getting these colors down on some yardage of cotton muslin, to provide a base for the work to come.

PRINTING PATTERNS: I pulled out this large linoleum block that I cut several years ago. It’s intricate and creates really nice patterns. I was hoping for good things from this.

I mixed up a celery green color – adding just enough white to my olive green hue to make it opaque. (To print over the darker kelly green.) I think it looks great.

Then I laid down the fabric and rubbed hard to make the print. Drat! Almost nothing showed up on my fabric at all. What a disappointment.

Acrylic paints are not actually the perfect relief printing medium. Block printing inks are formulated to do this better. (I stick with acrylics, however, so I can collage the printed pieces without the image running.) And I have printed with acrylic paints from this lino-cut many times, usually successfully. As soon as the print did not work I realized that the painted green fabric was a little too stiff to get a good print. It would have been different if I’d been printing on thinner fabric or a thin paper.

Alas. Time for plan B.

ROLLING ON COLOR I took a section of the Kelly green base fabric and marked it off into a haphazard grid with masking tape. Then I rolled the paint over it. The same color that did not show up on the lino-cut worked just fine painting directly.

Small sections of simple shapes will complement the organic leaf shapes in the composition-to-come.

TIME FOR LEAVES

Working on the olive-gold base colored fabric, I used a positive shape leaf stencil for a background pattern. The pale blue-green shows up around the outside of the stencil. Now, for the top layer, I’ll do the opposite.

The darker leaves were sponge printed from a negative leaf shape. (Like the inside of the donut hole.) This creates the shape of the leaf itself. I moved the stencil randomly around the fabric for an all-over pattern.

AND SOME CRACKLE

I always enjoy creating a batik-like crackle patterns with wheat paste. It takes a few steps and some time, but always worth it.

The wheat paste is just flour and water. I pour it on, spread it out in a very thin layer over the whole fabric. Once it dries, I’ll crack it to produce fine irregular lines. The I sponge paint down into the fine lines.

Wheat paste can also be used with stencils.

Here I’m rolling on the wheat paste, then removing the stencil to reveal the shapes. Nice clean edges.

I ended the day out in the sun, leaving the fabric with wheat paste to dry.

While that happens… afternoon nap time.

(The final result: leaves plus crackle is shown below)

. . . . . . . .

Mission accomplished: I completed the collaged work with trees that I’ve been posting about for the last several weeks. Here it is. And I’m thrilled that a patron has purchased it. Off it goes to Wisconsin in its UPS box tomorrow.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading.
I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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Collage Transitions and Connections

July 10, 2022

At the beginning of the weekend, this work was a lot of individual pieces and sections that I like glued down to a natural-edge canvas. Good start. (Note: How I got to this point is described in last week’s post.)

More to do.

This weekend my goal has been to make it an integrated whole. That means I want to pay attention to some transitions and connections.

First, a TRANSITION

This edge between the section that suggests sky and the section that suggests water is pretty harsh. A straight line. Sometimes, I like that. Here the abrupt line doesn’t have a purpose. I want to soften it up a bit.

I had some nice scraps of monotype printed tissue paper from another project. The colors will blend well with the new piece. And thin paper has that wonderful characteristic of ripping with unpredictable ragged edges. That’s what I was looking for.

I collaged the tissue paper in place. It will be complete encased in acrylic: medium above it and on top of it and through it. It will become a part of the fabric. But it can be scary at this stage to look at one’s work-in-progress and see all the ugly streaky matte medium. Fear not. It dries clear.

Now Some CONNECTIONS.

I’m unifying the top sections with the bottom third with some screen printed trees. These will have the same character as the screen-printed limbs that fill the bottom section.

I’ve determined the placement for my images and made masking tape corner marks to mark where they go. Now I’ll pour out acrylic paint onto the screen to print.

1-2-3 print.

It goes FAST! (And – an important reminder – working with acrylic paints means the screen cleanup has to happen really fast too. The paint dries in the screens and would clog them up in just a matter of a minute or so. I use my white plastic tray to walk the screen outside to the garden hose to get them rinsed out just as soon as I’ve pulled the print.)

More CONNECTIONS – with stitch.

The stitching on this collage is more a design element than a construction element. I’ve used three stitch patterns to unify the elements within each section. Long straight intersecting lines on the bottom third. Curving intersecting line in the middle. Meandering curved lines that follow the image of the sky elements in the top third.

One more CONNECTION – spatter

I can’t help myself. I love spatter. It just about always accomplishes what I want it to do. A subtle all-over bit of energy, going across the different sections, connecting all the parts.

Doing the spatter outdoors, I experienced one more delightful and spontaneous connection as I used a dish of rainwater to dip my spatter brush. This has happened before. I recorded my thought about it in a poem.

So, just for fun, I’ll close out this blog post with that poem. Cheers.

If you enjoy poetry, you might like to take a look at my collection of visual artwork and poems, “It was There I Believed.” It’s on my website HERE.

For all the artmakers: Happy creating
For all the art lovers: Happy appreciating

Thank you for reading.
I always enjoy questions and comments.
--Bobbi

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