April '08

Our April meeting brought a little show & tell and as well as a drawing & design exercise from Susan.

Donna had been working on a canvas work piece "Daintree Dreaming", based on memories of the leaf litter she had seen in the rain forrest.

Libby had been preparing for an exhibition, "A Conversation With Rain", to be held at:-

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Cnr The Horsley Drive & Oxford Street
Smithfield.
23rd May - 5th July 2009
Above is a sneak peak of her piece.

Jenny had been producing more lace, as well as working on a counted thread sampler in which colour, eyelets & blackwork were explored. The full story of the sampler can be read here, and the lace story here.

Susan's design exercise came from various sources, including J. Stoops and J. Samuelson: Design Dialogue(Mass.USA.1990), and Kathleen Whyte's Design in Embroidery (London.1969/1983). We used a natural object with interesting lines, which we then drew, sketched, & played with patterns to achieve a design.

Sheila used the vein lines in the leaf above to achieve these patterns.

Both Wendy & Libby used the same piece of bark from a xanthorea grass tree. Wendy sketched, while Libby "thread doodled" straight onto fabric.

Donna used this piece of coral for her inspiration for her sketches.

Jenny used a different piece of coral to produce these sketches.

Susan used a very weathered piece of bone.

Concentration was very strong while we sketched & explored the lines of our objects, so strong that we could have heard a pin drop. It will be interesting to see the desings that develop from our morning of sketching. So drop by next month to see what we have done.