I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0)
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends …" Robert Earl Keen
My homage to Shea Daniel-Youngblood’s Main Street was completed in short order …
Then I decided to take a series of process shots of my homage to our much-loved soumak rug …
which led to this finished piece (after I obviously lost track of taking pictures when I got totally into what I was doing) …
So now there are three …
and I’m happily pondering which piece of art to do next.
It may not be apparent, but the table cloth has progressed …
So now I’m starting on the next phase, which will be log cabins based on art in our home … the theory being that if we liked pieces enough to buy them, then they must have color combinations that I particularly like. Sorta like this homage to Maxine Price’s Feeling Playful …
And yes, I am once again thwarted by not having exact color matches, but I’m going with the flow and choosing palettes that give me a similar feel.
Anyway, I’ve also taken another pass through my stash of hand dyed and thrift store sourced linens … ironed the torn strips and sorted them by colors … then put them next to my stitching chair so they’re ready to go on the next log cabin …
which will be based on this piece of art …
I often have a hard time putting colors together. So I decided to tear strips of virtually every linen I had on hand …
and then started to put colors together in triads to see what combinations appealed to me …
I’ve only just begun.
And I confess that the idea was inspired by Josef Albers’ decades-long series of paintings entitled Homage to a Square …
which are most often four colors, but I’m more at the New York Times Tiles level …
Obviously my triads are fairly random in size, so their final arrangement may be strongly influenced by that aspect. In any case, I expect they will most likely end up on the table cloth project currently residing on the back of my stitching chair …
which is gloriously sun-soaked today, even if it is still below freezing outside.
Thank goodness for small blessings.
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 