Lisa Call

Structures #11    ©2002    47"x72"

Diane Clancy asked to see an image of my Quilt National 2003 quilt (the one on the cover of the catalog). I think the colors are a bit too harsh in this scan of my slide - I think it’s really softer in color but I’m having a hard time getting it too look right with photoshop.

 
 
I was tagged to participate in a couple blog memes this past month and it’s time to respond.

The first meme is the Thinking Blogger Award. Two people nominated me for this - Paula McCullough and Susie Monday. Thank you both so much for the kind words about my blog. I’m glad you enjoy it and you get something valuable from reading it.

For this award I nominate

1) Colin at auspiciousdragon. I don’t understand even 1/10th of the technical photo jargon he talks about but I’ve learned some useful things about photography when I try to understand. And I love his photos of the day.

2) Paul Butzi - another photographer. He writes about interesting topics, many of interest to all artists, and he’s not afraid to speak his mind. I may not always agree but I always have something to think about.

3) Christine Kane - I just started reading this song writer’s blog a few weeks ago but I find it very inspiring - check it out if you want to get motivated and care.

You can read all about how this meme works if you want to participate here. It’s basically a chance to nominate blogs that you find interesting and informative.

 
The other one is a meme where I’m suppose to list 7 random things about myself and tag 7 others to do the same. Both Paula McCullough and Tracy Helgeson tagged me for this one.

Here’s my list:

1) When I was in elementary school my best friend, Kelly, and I spent many of our recess hours in the library drawing. I stole my mom’s set of expensive prismacolor colored pencils and we would spend hours and hours drawing. For a while our favorite subject was machines - lots of colorful conveyor belts and such to do things like diaper a baby.

2) We also used to make art in our school desks with layers of glue and magic marker (until the teacher caught us). We made found object art from the boxes and containers in the trash can and we were particularly creative when making potions with anything liquid in the house (do not put Drano in a plastic container full of lotion and other misc bathroom liquids - just a little helpful warning).

3) Kelly went on to major in architecture with an art minor. I went into computer science. She was clearly more tuned into our natural leanings than I was.

4) In the early 70’s my family bought a cabin in the mountains in New Mexico. We spent a lot of time up there without electricity or running water so we did all sorts of random things to keep ourselves entertained. We built a club house (fallen logs marking out a square with stumps for our seats - not very high tech). I don’t recall what we did in this club but I remember I did make us a flag and fancy tablecloths where I sewed pockets onto pockets. I’ve always loved fabric.

5) Although I refused to sew in my middle school home ec class. I insisted I only wanted to take the cooking portion of home ec (I recall a breakfast of lucky charms so I might not have excelled at that either). Kelly and I brought in doodle art posters and just colored with magic markers during the sewing portions. To this day I still don’t know how we got away with that. Do any of you remember Doodle Art?

6) I only took art 1 semester in high school and I can’t remember it at all in middle school. I know I loved it in elementary school so I wonder why I didn’t choose to take more art classes.

7) I didn’t take any art classes as an undergrad but in graduate school I took a couple of ceramics mini course at night. That was a blast - I made a big eyeball - unfortunately it didn’t survive the firing. This little 2" one here is the prototype and even on it a few eyelashes fell off. I didn’t quite have the skills needed to pull that off. I love reading Cynthia Guajardo’s ceramics blog as it sounds like such a fun process.

 
For this 7 meme - from what I can tell most people have already participate in this. Hm. I was late to this game for sure. So I’ll try these folks (if you’d like to participate please tell us 7 random things about yourself and then tag 7 others):

1) Diane Clancy - a relatively new blogger with a ton of energy and great ideas.
2) David Castle - a water color artist that does the most amazing work. We both see similarities in our work - and yes David - we do need to pursue a collaboration!
3) Jeanne Williamson - another relatively new blogger that paints her quilts - wonderful work.
4) Joanie San Chirico - a long time friend from thefiberconnection.com - very talented soft painting artist.
5) Kit Vincent - another long time friend from thefiberconnection.com - although we first met in Ohio at a Nancy Crow workshop. She makes killer beats and tulips.
6) Olga - I love Olga’s insightful blog and her fiber work.
7) Cathy Kleeman - another long time friend from thefiberconnection.com - she works very hard at her art and it shows - wonderful work that deserves to be in Quilt National.

Apologies for anyone that tagged me and I missed it - I haven’t had much time to read blogs this past month.