Sketching along the way, Way

Susie Monday

Artist, maker, teacher, author, head cook and bottlewasher.

The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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This weblog is about the maker's life. The teacher's path. The stitching and dyeing and printing of the craft of art cloth and art quilt. The stumbling around and the soaring, the way the words and the pictures come together. Poetry on the page and in the piecing of bright scraps together. The inner work and the outer journeys to and from. Practicalities and flights of fancy and fearful grandeur, trivial pursuits and tactile amusements. Expect new postings two or three times a week, unless you hear otherwise.

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Friday

May252012

Friday, May 25, 2012 at 07:41PM

Here are just a few sketches from our walk along. I am using Paper 53, because I decided that I really liked its limitations .... Other sketch Apps I used were either too clunky to manipulate, made lines that all looked the same, or took too much time to master as tools. Paper has serious limitations, such as the color palette, but I love the lines it makes. Yes, as an app, it is a bit pricey, $7.99, but I figure that is about the cost of one pad of paper!

And, one thing I learned from Lisa Call, setting limitations as rules can be a good thing.

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Greetings and hugs from the Straits of Gibralter, have been in Barcelona and Valencia where we saw or heard teachers and bus drivers protesting. Casablanca tomorrow. Sorry we will miss you!

May 26, 2012 |

Pat S

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