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It's Been A Week on Off the Wall Friday from Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever by Nina-Marie Sayre

Dorothea Lange, Seeing People Exhibit

Okay so here is this week's tip....don't think you can take a quick 2-day trip to Washington DC and not come home exhausted and your mind a big creative blur. We only saw 2 museums, The National Gallery and the National Museum of American History and it still was stimuli overload. It wasn't just the museums which were amazing in themselves, but also the whole National Mall area. We took the metro in from Arlington, VA, and popped up in the Federal Triangle station which is the middle of 10 ...

added by Nina Marie 9 months, 4 weeks ago. under art show , calender cows , off the wall fri , vacations

Designing a Calendar Cow on Off the Wall Friday from Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever by Nina-Marie Sayre

I was looking back at previous posts (and when I say "back" I mean wayyyyyy back) and I realized that

I hadn't shown how I designed the Calendar Cow blocks. So I thought it was a good idea to, since so many times I hear from people who see my work, "I wish I could draw." I always smile and answer, "Me, too!"

So here is how to design a representational block when you can't draw but you know how to use a laptop, pencil and tracing paper.

1. Come up with an Idea. Since these blocks are ...

added by Nina Marie 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under art quilt , calender cows , creative process , off the wall fri , steallikeanartist , wip

A Return of the Calendar Cows on Off the Wall Friday from Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever by Nina-Marie Sayre

January, July, February, October, April, May Cows

This week my husband and I got optimistic and started Spring Cleaning our spare bedroom. This room, aka, Tessa's second bedroom has ended up storing all the odds and ends we're not quite sure what to do with. (are we the only ones with rooms like this?) Of course, it got worse when Tessa moved out since her odds and ends are now in there too. Included in this menagerie of stuff, are my UFOs. A while back I did actually weed this group down to pieces I wanted to finish ...

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