The Two Sisters at NBCCD

Guess what I finiiished! Yeah, the Luthier!

Snuggle time with my favourite giant head.

Ketchup

Just wanted to let you know I'm still alive and doing things. The past couple of weeks have been insane, but I promise new posts soon. 

Art Haus

Friday evening my friends Mike, Ashley, and Maggie opened up their apartments to showcase local artists and musicians in an informal and free kind of way. A truly rare event in Fredericton. 

I had a series of white-on-white screen prints, a bunch of miscellaneous drawings, and a few digital prints of some drawings (photos below). 

My new go-to sketchbook is an old hardcover novel called Ralph Raymond's Heir. Working on aged paper looks great, but there's also something quite mysterious that happens when one deliberately obscures the text with pictures...

Loom For Sale

For Sale: 45" Leclerc Nilus (4 harnesses) and some reeds, a bench, temple, and raddle! Only 500$!


Send me a message if you're interested!

Dye Jar Magic and Dharma Delivery

There are some nice pictures in this post if you can just make it through a bit of text...

I derive an immense amount of pleasure from working with natural dyes. Generally speaking, natural dyes are made from... natural substances, whether that be vegetable, animal, or mineral. For example, onion skins, dried cochineal insects, and rust are all natural dyes. Not all natural materials produce colour, not all colour is light fast. The colour obtained from a plant might (and usually doesn't) match the original colour of the plant itself. Some dyes require a mordant to fix the colour to the fibre, some dyes work better on some fibres than others, the pH of the water and trace chemicals/minerals can affect the colour, temperature and concentration and duration of the dyebath all affect colour as well. Then there's post processing, using nearly-exhausted baths, and other weird ways of getting colour to stick to the fibres... Ah! Wonderful, wonderful stuff.

Online Forever

I bought my website on Monday and you should CHECK IT OUT:


www.celinegorham.com 

Thanks be to Washing Machine

Felting with Advanced Structures is the course I had to skip out on, and thank the Gods the studio's been empty the past couple of weeks. It's nearly impossible to accomplish anything with a studio full of adult-aged hooligans who don't clean up after themselves and talk and take up space. It's the end of the semester, they SHOULD be in the studio, but aren't. As a result, I'm able to work freely and without interruption. Ah, solitude feels so good. 

Drafting a pattern for the Luthier mask

Eric Whitacre

This actually brought me to tears: 


http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong.html

I don't usually listen to choral, classical, or opera music simply because I can't handle the emotion generated by such moving pieces.   

You can find more info and links to the actual songs by clicking on "Full Bio & More Links" on the right-hand side, or search Eric Whitacre on youtube. 

High Speed Glue Fights

My apologies for the lack of posting this past week. Maintaining a busy life means some little things get dropped from time to time. But, like a dryer catching lint and loose coins, these little responsibilities accumulate and when the dryer stops, they are scooped up and taken care of.