Hasta La Ideas

image by Diem Chau

Much like the magazine has organizing sections (Art + Design, Craft, Style, etc), when I’m preparing blog posts it helps for me to have some framework to corral my ideas and all the submissions. Type Tuesday is a feature I’ve been sticking to on a fairly regularly basis and I find it quite enjoyable to put together (I hope you enjoy perusing those posts, too!) So on Wednesdays, I plan on sharing my own Works-in-Progress or images from around my studio, peeks into other creatives’ studios and workspaces, posts of the submissions in the W.I.P.S. flickr pool and other “unfinished business”.

As a follow-up to the post about Diem Chau, below, here are some additional images from issue #11:

Diem recently posted on her blog that she wants to move her artwork out of her home (and dining table) into a backyard studio. She plans on documenting the process of building her dream studio on her blog and I look forward to seeing progress reports.

images submitted by Deanne Fitzpatrick to the wips poolI’m enjoying the diversity of submissions to the Work-in-Progress Society group pool. These process shots of hooking rugs by Deanne Fitzpatrick are interesting. I especially like her painterly approach and looking at the rugs closeup to admire the colour, texture and detail.

If you’d like to learn how to hook a rug, visit Deanne’s extensive website, sign up for a workshop in her Amherst, Nova Scotia studio or purchase a dvd, kit or supplies from her shop.

Here’s my crafty work-in-progress: I’m sewing some felt cubes for Finley to play with.

These sketchbook pages caught my eye in the Work-in-Progress Society flickr pool. To see more of rejectamenta’s books, click here.

The Working Proof is a new online shop and blog that offers affordable prints (under $100). I love seeing images of the work in progress: you can almost smell the ink!

“Each print is paired by the artist with a charity to which we will donate 15% of each sale — creating what we believe to be a product with not just aesthetic, but social value. Our charities support a wide range of causes including humanitarian outreach, animal rights, environment, and research. Prints are produced by the artist, rather than by us, giving the artist complete creative control, and allowing for a wide variety of print mediums (upcoming: screenprint, letterpress, linocut, and giclee, to name a few!).

This week, we released “A New Rescue”, by Heather Smith Jones — a five-color letterpress print on Rives Heavyweight 175gsm paper.  Heather paired her print with Smile Train, a charity that offers free cleft surgeries to children in need. What Heather says about the print: “I like to layer representational imagery with pattern and arrange the parts in an abstract or narrative way. In this print I have included imagery of a butterfly, seashell, rose of sharon blossom and a wooden boat, each growing from a vine that originates from a tree stump. The boat to me symbolizes the idea of a rescue and the stump or tree represents a source of life.”