The lines begin to work together, communicating and coordinating until they have come together into something that was never there before. I just love that! Every drawing is a surprise. Occasionally I attempt to doodle with a specific purpose but the free form is most interesting to me.
I’ve been experimenting with s style of drawing and free motion quilting called Graffiti. I saw a video of Karlee Porter that really inspired me. Here are a couple of my examples of pen on paper.
Recently I participated in a quilt challenge with the theme WORDS. This is what my WORD quilt looked like. I really had fun quilting this and it flowed in much the same way that the lines on paper flowed, this was just with thread. I think I’m going to keep exploring graffiti and thread for awhile.
OK now I will admit that I struggled emotionally to create this little quilt since it was outside of my experience. Lots of self-defeating thoughts followed me around but I persisted and sent those negatives away. You know, "I don't think I can do this! This is dumb! Everyone else will have a masterpiece!" I don't think I am alone in this thinking either. Maybe I'll talk more in the future about the idea of "I Can or I Can't -One of those is probably true!"
Keep creating....
Check out this blog for some great ideas! http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com
