Monday, April 28, 2008
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Tommye McClure Scanlin ~ artist and teacher ~ tapestry and other things ~ Dahlonega, GA, USA
I am an artist who observes and responds to my surroundings for inspiration. My primary artistic medium is handwoven tapestry, an ancient method of working with fibers to create images. As I seek images and ideas to interpret into tapestry I experience my surroundings a closely as I can. Photographs, sketches, paintings, and writings all are part of the research I put into my work.
I have been living in the southern Appalachians most of my life and so my surroundings are filled with natural forms of woods, streams, and fields. My eyes are frequently drawn to the myriad details of the landscape and many of my tapestries are based on aspects of those details, simplified and enlarged in a weaving.
Please visit my American Tapestry Alliance page and my website to see more of my work--scanlintapestry.com
Hmmm. I think I like the less symmetrical ones most. I love the original painting with three fiddleheads, perhaps just cropped a bit on the top and the right (?) side. We don't have fiddleheads in the desert. They are fantistic!
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ReplyDeleteI found your blog because I found Meabh Warburton's blog searching through looking for tapestry blogs. Wow, how fun. I have really enjoyed these last few posts. I feel like I have been working so long in getting my cartoon ready for weaving. In the past, I did a more seat of the pants approach. Of course as a result, I did one tapestry 3 times before I got it right. Luckily, they were only 5" square. Thanks for documenting these steps. THey are helpful to me to look at your process.
Now, back to weaving my selvedge, I am finally getting around to starting my bigger tapestry.
Susan Skalak
thanks Kathy...I'm going to work more on the 3 fiddlehead pt. today. And, you're right...one of the thoughts about it is to crop at the top. I'll look again at the right side, too, now that you mention it.
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Susan, thanks for letting me know the design process photos are helpful to you. I really love to weave so much that it's hard to make myself work out compositional things over a period of time. But since I call my blog "works in progress" I want to show my working process...in all stages!