Last week, when I was due to post my textile sketch for Week 41 of my Weekly Art Project, I was in New Zealand for the selection of quilts for National Quilt Symposium 2017. Working with Philip Trusttam and Marianne Hargreaves, we reviewed digital images for 341 quilts across a range of techniques and styles […]
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Weekly Art Project: Week 40
Week 40 means I am into the fourth quarter of my weekly art project. As I prepare for “landing”, it’s time to review my inspiration listing to make sure that I include all of the imagery that I associate with my surroundings. Pelicans are not full time residents at Copacabana but tend to hang out […]
Weekly Art Project: Week 39
Week 39 has been a bit of a blur with preparations for the Sydney Quilt Show 2017 which opens tomorrow Thursday 22 June and continues until Sunday 25 June (see you there Thursday and Sunday!). I knew it would be busy so I managed to make a textile sketch ahead of time inspired by the […]
Weekly Art Project: Week 38
There are more than 170 Banksia species native to Austalia and, for week 38, it’s high time this plant is featured in my weekly art project. Out and about on my daily walk, I found this beauty with russet cones: A post shared by Brenda Gael Smith (@brendagaelsmith) on Jun 9, 2017 at 2:20pm PDT […]
Weekly Art Project: Week 37
It’s been a busy week working on exhibition administration for QuiltNSW and Ozquilt Network so this is what my Week 37 textile sketch looked like earlier today.And here is a work in progress shot later in the morning: This is a fiddly design to piece. Working at the 6x6in scale, I have become fast friends […]
Weekly Art Project: Week 36
It’s that time of the year again. There’s a chill in the air, the flannel sheets are on the bed and the migrating whales are starting to appearing on the horizon. I saw my first pod of humpbacks yesterday. I didn’t have my camera to hand but they looked something like this video from the […]