Tidying Up

Today's work was very positive - lots done in the company of like minds.

I spent the day tidying up the back ground work from my geology piece - sorting and then sticking inspiration work, stitch samples and drawings into my sketchbook. It was a very therapeutic putting to bed of ideas, readying myself to explore from a different angle. I know I will come back and finish the other geology pieces, companions to the one exhibited in Malmesbury, but I feel I need a breather from it all now and to think about what I've done and develop new ideas. 

Into my sketchbook I put a pencil and crayon drawing of the fissures in a cliff in Devon - inspiration for stitch.....

Fissures in slate cliff, Morthoe, North Devon

..... a machine stitch sample of rock layers on painted silk ....

Stitch sample

...and a colour experiment in watercolour with wax resist, enhanced in Adobe Photoshop before printing ....

Koh-i-nor paints and wax resist
colour experiment cut into strips and some inverted

There is more of this sorting and cleansing to do before I start the new work, but I can feel the ideas beginning to free themselves.