just the Right tension

 

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printed it out and used a white colored pencil to create this more stylized form…it has the most tension and i like it a lot,  but….

 

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OR,  but maybe it's really the feet?  if i changed the tension in the feet?

I love what i learned from Jude in Patchwork Beasts.   My beasts are still how i feel them and not so much really patchwork,  but i learned to look for the fewest Shapes that could give the image of the beast.  Here,  3.  the body and one wing,  the second wing,  the tail.   The legs and beak will be thread

 FINALLY,  took apart the stuff on the water thingy for the swamp  cooler for Winter.  It's been in the 20's at night.  High 5o's or mid 60's,  day.  It's that transitional time.

 

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It's nice to have help.

 

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12 responses to “tension”

  1. Linda Avatar

    I realized today that the festival of the cranes is next week. I thought I might make it this year… but didn’t .. Hope you get to see some cranes fly over.

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  2. Linda Avatar

    PS
    We had a funeral for a crow in our yard this week. A crow got electrocuted on a transformer in our yard. There were so many crows making such a racket I went out to check. My granddaughter was out there too and we saw the dead crow. There must have been 75 to 100 birds. We didn’t touch the crow but waited till dark to move him. They came three times that day.
    People think that we are the only things with feelings.. They should have been here.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    crow gatherings have a special magic

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  4. Mo Crow Avatar

    love seeing the process of this dream of a crow materializing

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  5. jude Avatar

    not patchwork, no, even though you use cloth, I always feel like you are painting.

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  6. beth Avatar

    Oh Grace. That crow. The dream bringer.

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  7. Dana Avatar

    This is a powerful crow. Beautiful, Grace.

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  8. grace Avatar

    they do. flocks come and go from the chili fields, alfalfa fields around me. That Sound. I am hoping to go on the week end.

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  9. grace Avatar

    they have a very sophisticated and complex social system very
    much like ours. I am sad for the crow, but am so glad you and
    your granddaughter were Witness.

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  10. grace Avatar

    no…alas….not patchwork. But it is the Beauty of your
    teaching that it can be applied to however we See, however we
    work. Painting. interesting. i guess to me it’s more like
    sculpture or something.

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  11. grace Avatar

    you like Crow, then, good. I like that.

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  12. grace Avatar

    Many Crows in my life lately…they travel along side the truck

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