The beauty of simple techniques

I want to apologize because I haven't wrote for one month on my blog.

I wasn't at home but visiting family and friends. I think I'm becoming a kind of nomand and this is not very good for my art. Or perhaps I need once more to have a time out to get focused once more...

I will be leaving Austria for 10 months and this is something I look forward both with great expectations and skepticism. I will accompany my youngest daughter to Alicante during her year of study and I want to do this for two reasons. One is for reviving my Spanish past (I was born in Argentina and I had lots of Spanish people around me) and the other one is for doing a thing you do seldom when you are my age (and happily married with a husband who is an angel and can cope with Skyping all that time) and you won't have this opportunity again. Well, actually I intend to make a second dream happen and the next school year of Sophie I will accompany her for a year to Bangor/Wales taking my car with me so that I can visit all the textile exhibitions and shows in Great Britain because I will have mi car with me!!

You can imagine that my work will change according to the materials I have in hand because I can't take my studio with me. I will have to work with simple techniques and materials at hand.

One of the persons I visited this month is my friend Regina Stieger and she was doing some tea dyeing on fabric with hollyhock and rooibos. She gave me a piece she did and I did also some dyeing at home.

This is the one she did and her husband made a stitchery for me of a motive I drew. He has two wonderful digital stitching machines, a small and a big one.

This is the stitchery:

I was very inspired by Swedish wall painting. I love them because they have something familiar, like Romanic wall painting somehow, very naive. This is what I mean (taken from the book I bought at the Nordiska Museum in Stockholm "Dalmaleri" I Dalarnas Museum":

I suppose I liked them because, yes, they have many faces on them... I have to find a way of working with faces in a reduced stash and now I'm drawing and stitching them.

I'd like to share the process.

All very simple and  a real slow cloth technique. I can imagine doing this in Spain.

Comments

[Cecilia Levy]

congratulations on your travels to come! it's great that you take the opportunity, looking forward to seeing the creative outcome!

[arlee]

Sara, this looks exciting--sometimes having less makes more :) Looking forward to your adventures!

[Marie-Noëlle Bourgue]

Formidable, Sara, vous allez vivre des moments exaltants, je vous souhaite bonne chance, donnez des nouvelles souvent.

[sara lechner]

Merci, Marie-Noelle, j'espère pouvoir écrire souvent dans mon blog pour vous tenir au courant.

[Martine]

Sara mittlerweile weiss ich das du nicht viel brauchst um schöne kunst zu machen, nur deine kreativität und die nimmst du auch mit auf die reisen.
Viel spass wünsch ich dir.
XXXm

[Zoya]

I wish you two wonderful trips that will bring new knowledge, experiences and some fun. I hope you'll find time to occasionally write about some of the things you see and how your work changes. I'm constantly inspired by your images to keep on learning and trying.

[rachel awes]

oh my heavens, your artwork is beautiful!
i adore every stitch! i'm going to now check out your fairies!!