Art & Catalogs

Home #59
©2010 Lisa Call
3.5" x 2.5"
Textile Painting (Fabric hand dyed and painted by the artist, cotton batting, cotton thread)
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Studio
Today has been a fabulous studio day, designing 2 new large textile paintings in my Structures series (these will be #113 and #114). They feel like the first step forward in this series in a while so it was very exciting.
I can’t show images of them as I might enter them into Quilt National (a big juried art quilt show) and they have a zillion rules about pre-publication of the artwork. It’s easier to just not show the artwork than to read and understand the rules.
Last week I made a few new black and white mini textile paintings with my hand stamped and painted fabric to include in my July studio newsletter. The above piece is one of them. I’ve got some wonderful ideas on where to take these black and white pieces in the future.
In fact I have a zillion ideas of directions to go, my brain is over flowing with inspiration. Making art kinda does this – it inspires more art.
Newsletter
As I mentioned, I emailed my July studio newsletter yesterday. It was a lot of fun to write and pull together.
The topic of my essay was transition – as there is a lot of that at my house these days with my son heading off to college any minute now (although please please, can he finish cleaning his room before he goes).
If you aren’t a subscriber you can view it online here: Lisa Call’s July Studio Newsletter.
If you want to subscribe go here.
Color Improvisations Catalog
The first 10 catalogs from Color Improvisations arrived from Germany this week and I’ve packaged them up and will take them to the post office on monday. I’ve sold 40 catalogs this week and of this writing there are only 10 remaining for sale.
This could be the end of them. It’s a lot of work to track the orders and pack them up. It’s been a labor of love to share this beautiful art with everyone. If there is still a huge demand after these last 10 are gone, I might reconsider. Or not – I want to make art!
Anyway, if you don’t have one yet but want one – the webpage to order is here: Color Improvisation Catalogs
A few images of the packaging event earlier today:

The catalogs. The colors of the books aren’t exactly in this photo (the orange is the most off on my screen) – but it gives you an idea. The hardcover book is 10″x10″.

The boxes. I spent some time investigating how best to package the books so they were 1) cheap to mail and 2) wouldn’t get ruined in the process. In the end boxes were the best option – they cost a bit more but I think the books will survive their travels through the US mail better this way. I order 50 boxes from uline and they arrived in just 2 days. With shipping I think they cost around $1 each.

The packaging. I’m reusing bubble wrap from my past. Good thing I’m a packrat and never through this stuff out. I am likely to run out so I will put an email in at work tomorrow and hope some coworkers have some in their basement they want to share. Plan B is the use all those plastic grocery bags in my closet. They make for good cheap packaging all crinkled up.
Posted by Lisa in: Making Abstract Contemporary Textile Art
Tagged: Art for Sale, color improvisations, home, newsletter, structures
















