Lisa Call

Structures #109 – In Progress
Lisa Call
Textile Painting
©2009
~80" x 80" (unfinished)

More Art Made During Construction

Structures #109 is another textile painting that I designed and constructed in my temporary 10′x12′ bedroom/studio while my house was under construction.

I love working with brown. It’s always the first color of fabric I run out of during the winter when I don’t do any fabric dyeing.

My fence motif got a bit more chopped up in this piece as I was playing around with the square shapes that resulted from some doodling I was doing.

Studio Lighting

My posts on studio lighting will return tomorrow. I spent my weekend up in Estes Park helping Alyson Stanfield with her Art Marketing online class.

Between that and getting sick last week my plan for the week pretty much went out the window, but I’m back on track this week and ready to make lots of forward progress.

Markings #26 – In Progress
Textile Painting
©2009
~80" x 80" (unfinished)

New Work

I’ve decided to take a break from the new studio posts for tonight and show some new art instead, lest I forget I actually do make art also.

During the remodel I designed and constructed 5 new pieces for a curated show. The curators have selected the work so I can now show the ones they did not choose.

The above textile painting is in progress (it still needs the surface stitching/quilting – many many hours left to go).

This work was designed and constructed in a small 10′ by 12′ room that also doubled as my bedroom so I was never able to stand more than about 6 or 7 feet away from it. Makes for some tricky design work.

I posted a photo of the strips of fabric I used back in Janurary (these turn into the thin lines in the finished work). So now you can see what these turned into.

 
Happy weekend everyone!

Structures #1
Textile Painting
74" x 38"
©2005 Lisa Call
$12,000

Snow and Building

I was going to write a blog post about social media last night, and then today, but I decided nope, time to take a bit of a break from doing stuff. So that will have to wait. I need to spend some time chilling out as the construction comes to a close. Basically I’m tired. Need to get my energy back.

Only 1 more week and I think it’ll be done – or done enough that I will be moved in and just have minor things here and there to fix. The major stuff will be done. Tomorrow and Saturday carpet and maybe my studio closet then next week paint. I need some studio furniture built, put up some design walls and then I’m in business.

The weather did it’s best to put the brakes on the project but it didn’t win. They finished moving my studio closet door to a more discrete location then did the drywalling and texturing just as the storm was at it’s peak. Then the blizzard kinda gave up and it’s just regular kinda snowing out there now – no more blowing horizontally – which is always interesting.

The First

I’m uploading images of my artwork to facebook so thought I’d share what I wrote over there here also:

Structures #1 is the first textile painting/quilt I made in the Structures series. I started the painting in 2000 in a workshop in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.

When starting a new series the first thing I do is make sketches and since I work in fabric my sketches are also constructed with fabric, usually black and white. So after that I was ready to jump into a lot of color. I love the richness of my handdyed fabrics.

This artwork, along with all of my textile paintings, is heavily textured with stitched lines less than 1/4″ apart across the entire surface. The tactile nature of this type of detail makes them nearly irresistible to touch.

Detail:

The New Studio

Moving Day

Last night I moved everything out of my old bedroom into the new bedroom and new studio in the addition. It is amazing the amount of stuff I had crammed in that small 10′x12′ room. Woohoo! A studio.

For now it’s temporary furniture as the real stuff is in storage (and not yet built). The studio is lacking lights and carpet but those will arrive eventually. I won’t put up all my design walls til the carpet is in.

I figure I have another month til it is completely done but it’s awesome to be there now with the temporary furniture.

I haven’t uploaded construction photos for the last couple days but I’ll do that later this weekend and put in some links. My cabinets are 1/2 up and things are changing fast. It’s beautiful.

Lines

Today is the last day to purchase my art at my previous prices. Starting tomorrow (when I get up and get to the computer to do the update) all of my prices will be going up.

These are last pieces I have for under $50:

Lines #12
©2008
3" x 3" – Mounted on stretched canvas
Sold

Lines #13
©2008
3" x 3" – Mounted on stretched canvas
Purchase Here

Lines #14
©2008
3" x 3" – Mounted on stretched canvas
Purchase Here

Lines #15
©2008
3" x 3" – Mounted on stretched canvas
Sold

Lines #16
©2008
3" x 3" – Mounted on stretched canvas
Sold

Lines #17
©2008
3" x 3" – Mounted on stretched canvas
Sold