Thursday, August 6, 2015. I got really excited about this patch of clover. I pressed the leaves and sketched the plants. It actually became my evening event a few times a week to walk down and see how the clover had changed or if more had bloomed. With this piece, I wanted to continue my Weeds embroideries using the scrap gold thread bits but I also wanted to experiment with doing long and short stitch using a Valdani sewing and quilting thread. Thursday, July 16, 2015.

What a difference the lighting makes. I have been working on the trailing. I must say that I find it quite difficult to keep it smooth and shiny. Only practice will improve it I suspect. I have started on the eyelets which means that you can finally tell that this is an Appaloosa! I have put in two photographs designed to show different things. The first is a shot using normal lighting. The next one uses side lighting, which highlights the trailing.

Tuesday, 23 July 2013. Monday, 3 June 2013. As usual, Tracy managed to pull me back from the brink last week in class. A long overdue update! .

I found dryish spots to sit and sketched most of the sculptures, hours later I was going around the museum yet again. I found it to be a very exciting, rewarding and contemplative experience all rolled into one. The longer I spent there the more I began to fall in love with the forms I was seeing.