New piece in progress, for upcoming Spring art show at Fine Line Gallery: "Threads"

Working on this piece for upcoming "Threads" theme spring show at Fine Line Gallery, Fort Frances. May 4-29, 2009.

A previous Bingorage posting about Pither's point Park.

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This canvas had a ton of paint ladle on it, randomly, for a while. I had no idea what it wanted to be. When I heard that the spring show theme would be "Threads", I started to get a rough idea of where it might go.



I roughly sketched a thread spool with a pen, and then started to work with it.













At this point, I tried to shape the spool a bit more with outlining and add more definition to the thread, needle and button elements.





A human(?) figure added. There are many stories around the world of "the little people" helping out with craft activities (as well as hindering the process.).















Current incarnation of the "Spool Canvas".
Dimensional definition added to button element, with light and shadow.



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Progress of central figure detail:













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Blast from the past:

Just say NO to deer-hunting with platypi.



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