Blanket February 7, 2008

Part of a baby blanket I’m making for my brother’s forthcoming boy.

I started knitting this on Tuesday and then remembered that "Blanket" is the current theme for Illustration Friday, and I thought, "Hey! I should draw it!" Originally I imagined doing a super-macro drawing of just a couple of stitches, but I started too small, and grew crosseyed and bored very quickly, so I gave up and went for evocative abstraction.

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Nov. 15 November 15, 2007

I subscribe to an art instruction newsletter www.artacademy.com.  This week’s tutorial was about drawing drapery–“pipe” folds this time.  So I pinned a cloth to the wall and spent way too much time trying to figure it out.  (You can get lost in all the #$%!!# folds!) So here’s the result, looking pretty much like Art 101.

Thirteenth November 13, 2007

Black pen and bucketfill drawing of shirt pattern pieces ready to cut out.

dishtowel November 12, 2007

I couldn’t decide to draw today or build an Ark. The weather was, and still is, wet and windy.  Obviously, I decided to stay dry. (prismacolor and 4b pencil)

#10 November 10, 2007

I’m working on corset/3D quilt design ideas based on folk tales.

kid sock

Drawing of a sock I knitted. (primarily pencil and prismacolor)

Eric: Day 4: Potholder November 4, 2007

Japanese pouch November 12, 2006

My friend Melissa brought this from Japan for me. It’s made from a single large square scarf:

I’ve been keeping my camera in it lately, since I don’t have a real camera bag that’s big enough. (I recently upgraded to a camera with a zoom lens.)

Caught up! November 8, 2006

1. Viewfinder for feeling sad about Adrienne Shelly.
   
2. Pushduck on Tibet bag.
   
3. Quasi Quilt (not entirely an Op Art conceit; 2-D representation of a quilt top I originally designed on graph paper, then sewed and hung up over my study window a few years ago).
   
4. Sharpener. I was feeling pretty happy about this until my crosshatched shadow turned into a spiderweb.
   

Um, can anybody help me rotate the last two images? [Done. —IA]