Showing posts with label Elaine Quehl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elaine Quehl. Show all posts

Monday, April 2, 2012

Time to Get Blogging


                          At the Ontario Juried Show with my award winning art quilt, "Masks"


                                                  

                                                       "Masks"   Best Individual Small Quilt



I have continued to ignore my blog. Today I read a fellow artist, Elaine Quehl's blog and  I was motivated to write. Today I read and subscribed to Elaine Quehl's blog. What a busy artist she is; teaching, presenting, showing her work in a variety of shows and selling her hand-dyed fabrics! It makes my head spin. I first met Elaine when we both won awards at the Ontario Juried Show several years ago. We have both taken different roads with our art that's for sure. She is a highly successful and internationally recognized teacher. I am much more regionally recognized artist. I take a lot of pleasure in teaching to a few select groups and writing articles about my art for publication. I do alot of volunteer work for my guilds and art groups. I take time to learn new skills and mix my media up. Friends are the biggest reason I have not taken a high road. I make time to do art with them and share what I have learned. Besides, I am getting older and energy is at a premium. Retirement gives you lots of time but I use some of that time for napping! 
Until next time!