Monthly Archive for March, 2008

Craftcast Interview

Published on March 25, 2008 in Fibers. 0 Comments

I was so pleased and excited to be interviewed by Alison Lee for her Craftcast show.  It was a delight and a honor.  We chatted about lots of things with a focus on sparking creativity.  I hope you will enjoy listening here. Thanks Alison!

And FYI, I just finished teaching my first online workshop and will repeat it again starting April 11th.  I enjoyed it so much- I guess I have to finally accept I do have an inner geek!  Info is at www.thatcreativeplace.com

Power of Words

Published on March 14, 2008 in Fibers. 0 Comments

As part of my Creative Sparks seminar I talked about how words inspire my work.  Usually in two ways. 

  • The word itself brings to my minds eye a visual image that I would like to interpret as a piece of jewelry, artist book  or something else
  • The words themselves will serve as a narrative (in an artist book or collage for instance), 

And of course letterforms/calligraphy can be beautiful works of art. 

I want to encourage and challenge you to start and incorporate text into your work!  It can add power to the message you want to send with your art work. 

Here’s an easy way to get started:  Visual-Dialog-2forweb.jpg

Let your finger drop onto a dictionary page in one, two or three places,

Let those words roll around in your creative mind a little bit (not too long, don’t over-analyze and get paralyzed!),

then create something using the word or words as inspiration.