The Yellow Challenge took a Turquoise Detour

Well the past two weeks my yellow challenge was side railed by Turquoise and Red, specifically.  I finished a runner for a client and I am happy to say it turned out beautiful and I am now baack on to my YELLOW challenge!  Check out the Turquoise and Red Rug...

YELLOW HERE I COME!!!!

Don't forget, the challenge is for everyone welcome to participate, it could be something you decorated in your home, something you felted, something you made like baked, something you found at a flea market, yellow is the key, just upload it to my Festive Fibers Fan Page on Facebook! 

YELLOW

This time of year in my yard always makes me love the color yellow.  The forsythia are in full bloom, albeit this year their blooms look more like they are wearing skirts with all the flowers open at the bottom and not much up top.  What's with that?   And I just came in from plucking dandelions out of the grass.  A couple of weeks ago I made a color combination challenge, posted a photo and asked people to send in their color combination they made from the inspiration.  No one played with me!   This week I am going to challenge you and me in another way by using the color YELLOW in a challenge of ANY sort of creation.  I am painting, and felting, cooking and decorating.  I wonder what I will come up with?  And I wonder who will play with me this week?  When you have finished your YELLOW creations upload them onto my facebook fan page...can't wait.  Hmm I am also cleaning around the house and am about to hang my yellow sheets on the line to dry

A visit to Longwood Gardens

We went to summery New Jersey for Easter, and on Monday decided to visit a favorite in the Telaar house, Longwood Gardens.  The weather was beautiful - mid eighties, and sunny.  The gardens were stunning.  I have been there before but never this time of year.  The following photos are instead of a note book and sketching...but I will get out my paints for sure now that I am home.



Tom and 91 year old June



Trish's Finished Bench Fabric

Beautiful!

Paul Signac

Each touch, taken pure from the palette, remains pure upon the canvas - Paul Signac

Landscape

The Papal Palace, Avignon

Women at the Well

 In the winter world of New Hampshire, now covered in a couple feet of snow, skies so clear blue ground so bright white, I find this absence of color opens the door for inspiration and creativity.  Less is the distraction from my gardens, (though I plan on going out back and inspecting some animal tracks later) and more is the sparkle of a dream, of color.  Today's artist's quote from my Year in Art: a masterpiece a day calendar displays Paul Signac on my desk, compels me to remind myself what his style was, and dredge from my memory of art classes with the help of the internet how colorful his world was.

Paul Signac 1863-1935, painted in the Post-Impressionist style.

Festive Fibers in Print

The Jan/Feb Issue of New Hampshire HOME is on the stands and I am so excited to be included in a home shoot.  Earlier last year I worked on a custom fabric order, for a set of pillows.  I was contacted by Lee Perrault of Via Design (I've written about Lee before)  we are birds of a colorful feather, and she was very excited that one of her clients loved my work and agreed to have pillows made.  For those of you unable to get he paper copy, NH HOME just put the current issue on-line, you can breeze through pages until you get to pps 60-61 where the pillows are pictured.  The feature article is titled "A Perennially Adaptable Home".
I thought I'd include photos again of my process with Lee, and you can check the final product!  Enjoy.