The process ...
many ask,
"So what is it that you do, Kimberly?"
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| Original drawing of "Trio"© 21"square, marker rendering. This was the beginning of my feature piece for next weekends fine art show. [info below] |
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| Biggest piece of canvas this one has ever painted. I had to borrow an easel! Which if you'd seen me trying to put this together, you'd still be laughing. |
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| Finished hand painted canvas of "Trio"© From here, it was mounted to stretcher bars to allow me to go crazy with cotton and silk fibers, silk wrapped gimp [love this stuff] from Tentakulum Painters Threads amazing Silk Ribbon from River Silk, metallics, silk, and fine copper mesh from Kreinik Mfg. Doug Kreinik found this awesome copper mesh for me after much fruitless searching on my part. My dragonflies would be flat winged without his generous assistance. |
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| Rendered in thread, one of a kind, fiber art, mixed media canvas by a Kimberly design© |
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| As I rendered this piece .... my hands just seem to know what to do, what a magical journey this piece has been for me. The outlined flowers in the background, the hatchmarked sparkle ... stems, leaves, many moons .... and oh! Those WINGS!!! |
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| The 'viney' things ... that's the silk wrapped gimp. |
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| Meet Betsy Bohrer! She is the creator and curator of two different art venues here in mid Florida. Both of which she graciously asked this one to be a part of. She is helping me introduce the world, one small step at a time, to my world of needleart. I met Betsy about two years ago during a one woman show of her beautiful works of art. The friendship took off from there. She introduces us as Mischief and Mayhem. You'll have to guess at who is what ;-) [although, I think we trade back and forth] |
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| If you're in the area of Central Florida ... Please join us next weekend for Fine Art at the Magnolia We are a collection of seventeen Fine Artists from all walks. Ranging from pottery to paint to sculptural basketry to digital to photograpy to sculpture to jewelry to glass. Something for everyone. ... and all in air conditioned comfort by beautiful Lake Mirror in the historical Magnolia Building. |
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| My proud Mom! Love this picture of her! |
