Detail of stones, in progress

Stones progress

Another few inches--right side:

I have the painting hanging over the top of the loom, by the way.  As I proceed through the tapestry I'll roll up the lower part of of the painting so I keep the inches I'm using as reference for the tapestry in view.

For the cartoon, the line drawing behind the warp, I'm using a couple of sheets of mylar taped together (that join is the more opaque vertical line just to the right of center).  The top of the mylar is just about the top of my hanging bar--had to tape paper to the edge of the sheets so that it could hang over the bar and stay in place.  I'll add new sheets of mylar once this has been woven, taking this part of the cartoon away.

Usually my cartoon is drawn onto one piece of something (paper or mylar) rather in sections like this will be.  But this time I didn't have wide or long enough paper or mylar to use.  I first transferred the outlines from the painting onto clear vinyl and intended to use that as the cartoon.  But I didn't like that after I tried it at the loom because it was hard to attach to the warp and I also needed something behind the vinyl so I could see the lines more easily.  So... back to the mylar.

Tapestry class coming to Arrowmont next summer!

Breaking News!  I'm now scheduled into Arrowmont for next summer, to be teaching a two week class in tapestry from June 28-July 11, 2015.  More information to come later.

Stones--tapestry and painting

Just a bit more woven today:

My progress does seem slow but I have to remember that it's 60" across and that I'm figuring out what I'm doing as I proceed.  I have basis lines within which changes happen but the selection of the colors to make the yarn mixtures I want takes time.  And I'm trying to translate a very loose painterly design into something weave-able.  I'm trying to be informed by the color information I put into the painting but not copy it, mark for mark, stroke for stroke.  For example, I'm trying to turn this:

into this:

And this:

into this:

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  Yet most of the time I move ahead and am happy with the translation--or happy enough, anyway.