tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716048807398679258.post8786996098953963750..comments2024-03-13T10:57:11.820-04:00Comments on works in progress : Another day at the Aimone workshop... or what in the heck am I doing??Tommye McClure Scanlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09816922767294739515noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716048807398679258.post-12627939418199866382013-04-03T12:02:44.233-04:002013-04-03T12:02:44.233-04:00This has been a very enlightening conversation for...This has been a very enlightening conversation for me. Thank you Kathy and Tommye. The workshop sounds exhausting and wonderful. I like what you say Tommye about living in both worlds. I have been wrestling with the same ideas. I am in love with the materials and process of tapestry and I don't want them to be reproductions of paintings but my interest is in images. I think this could take years to figure out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10879607915302977990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716048807398679258.post-18670422426819209272013-03-30T13:40:31.674-04:002013-03-30T13:40:31.674-04:00I don't consider myself to be a painter, I hav...I don't consider myself to be a painter, I have tried to learn to paint, as you do, to design. Just think about it though, as we beat ourselves up when working with painters; how many of them can weave a tapestry? It helps me sometimes to remember that I'm designing for a different medium. But then, sometimes some of my 'designs' just aren't compelling enough for me to weave them, so they just remain as paintings. I always tell people when they ask my medium that I am a tapestry designer and weaver, and I sometimes paint, but mostly to design.K Spoeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07692584187798649701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716048807398679258.post-46062537818368924312013-03-29T22:21:42.762-04:002013-03-29T22:21:42.762-04:00Thanks, Kathy.
You are an amazing painter and to h...Thanks, Kathy.<br />You are an amazing painter and to hear this from you just is so humbling. Percolating through the experience, as you say, is quite important.<br /><br />If we are "tapestry artists" or ... whatever we want to call ourselves, we have to in some way exist in both worlds... the visual artist/painter world as well as the world of the artisan/technician/weaver. I've found that the painter/"fine artist" world isn't the one I want to live in. I enjoy the engagement with materials that tapestry weaving gives me too much to be purely engaged in paint and a surface. Yet what I want to "engage with" is image. Hence, the problematic nature of the tapestry medium. I don't have the answer. Wish I did. Tommye McClure Scanlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816922767294739515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716048807398679258.post-88173885853627445862013-03-29T21:56:37.482-04:002013-03-29T21:56:37.482-04:00I know exactly what you mean! I went to the portra...I know exactly what you mean! I went to the portrait session at the art center this week, having felt like I did fairly well last time ( as in, didn't totally humiliate myself,) but this week i felt like I had never held a paintbrush before. And my work totally reflected that lack of confidence. Some serious self-talk will be taking place before next week. Not nagging, but some serious 'encouragement.' Plus maybe some random pose sketches....<br /><br />Even if we don't do well in the workshop or at the portrait sessions, I'm sure we will both get something percolating from the experience. (Thinking positive, here.)K Spoeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07692584187798649701noreply@blogger.com