Lately I have been working on my City & Guilds activities, trying to catch up after a long period of not making any progress at all. It's the blessing and curse of self-paced programs -- flexibility, but the dangerous possibility of letting thing go. Deciding whether to resume made me think about why I signed up in the first place: to expose myself to some new techniques, to learn from artists I admire tremendously (I'm in the course offered by Linda and Laura Kemshall), and to work more specifically on design. The program is helping me do what I wanted to do.
Plus, there is the huge benefit of having discrete, small tasks to accomplish AND, even better, a check list to mark off when I've completed each activity. This is enormously satisfying to me right now, when life feels a bit scattered and I'm not in the mood to start a massive new project. Small and achieveable feels quite good!
The picture above is hand-sewn reverse applique, in case you were wondering. The activity involved taking design inspiration from a photo and developing it into a reverse applique sample. I'm thinking this would make a very cool border, if I were inclined to tackle that hand-sewing...
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