Fiber has always spoken to me.
I love the textures of different fabrics and different weights of yarn.
The first drawings that I made were representations of flowers made out of fabric, different quilt blocks.
I also found I could draw from photographs of embroidery or patterns woven or printed on fabric.
On Master Naturalist field trips, I felt impelled to make simple botanical line drawings.
In that way, my fiber art is emerging.
I love combining different textures and shapes into journal covers.
I am struggling my way through a book on drawing birds.
I know the act o wielding the colored pencils to create the form will yield a better understanding of color, line and shadow.
It will come out in a different way in my fiber art.
Although occasionally I take a class, I am more influence by the artist blogs that I see.
I see how their work represents their feelings, their techniques, their materials.
I see how it speaks to me.
And then I let my materials, my techniques, my feelings, stitch and draw and crochet and arrange themselves in to my own fiber art.
It is an emerging process every day.
© 2014 Kathryn Hardage
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