No work in progress this week as the National folk festival over Easter and Eve being home has taken all my time. But I did see this heart shaped leaf I had to share and I found some of the colours interesting. This was the colour scheme I ‘discovered’ …
Dan of Empty Easel has produced an excellent video about using 5 Simple Design Elements to improve an image. He aims his advice to painters, but any fiber artist, art quilter or embroidery designer will find that applying these design elements to their work will make their work stronger. So …
This list of 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials is worth browsing and doing some of the free tuts! I realise only a percentage of my readers have and use Photoshop. An even greater percentage of readers have Photoshop but do not use it because they find it too difficult. I could …
For those who read Sprit Cloth and are fans of Jude’s work I am sure you will enjoy this video. Not only does Jude share some of her studio journal sketches but she talks about her creative process. Jude’s speaks about adding a block to the “story” and how stories …
I had not heard of rice paddy art until I encountered this on Youtube. This is a time lapse video of rice farmers in Japan who create huge murals by planting fields of different coloured rice. Since rice plants produce fiber as well as grain I have my fingers crossed …
Over on Feeling Stitchy there is an excellent tutorial on How to turn a photograph into an embroidery design. Kirsty has illustrated the article step by step and I am sure many embroiderers will find it useful. So run over there …
Karma Kraft is a new (to me) print your fabric on demand service which is ideal for quilters and new designers who want to explore designing and printing their own fabric. There is a full explanation of how custom printing works on the site but basically you sign up, upload …
