New plans

As the new year looms, I'm planning ahead, and thinking of revamping my website, because I'm really not happy with it any more.  I started it when I was producing textile patterns, and now I don't do that any more but have left the patterns on there because my body of work is still small, which I share on the two non-pattern pages, Book Arts and Textile Art.  I don't know whether to:

• take the patterns off altogether
• leave them but take them off the Home Page, and have a link to them somewhere else

Do any of my readers have any feedback for me?    I'd love some comments from you here on the blog.  To look at the website yourself and decide, this is my website link http://www.christinelinton.com.au/, or go to the feathers at the top of the blog,

 After reading this great book"I'd rather be in the studio" I want to make my website more current but feel a little unsure of the best way to go.   I have made the Home Page more current with recent work.

Also I don't know whether to:

• change the layout altogether, losing the Green Information Boxes on various pages and concentrating on the art work itself only
• or leave the Green Boxes but update them more often
• and is the green background good?

Back to the art.  Here is a brooch I made ......

Glitterfly - made from sequinned glitter fabric (inside out), beads, wire, free-machining on vilene

Making Changes

This week has been about making changes in the way I look at things.  I started off by understanding vaguely that I was in overdrive on the artwork front, feeling scattered because I was trying to work on too many projects at once.  I re-read an article on Change from ArtBizBlog which I now can't find online but luckily printed off.  Then when I was in Adelaide and stopped for my cappuccino time, I took out my journal and started writing how I was feeling.  As I wrote, I got into the scattered feeling and started to write about my priorities, realising I was not working on those things as much as on unimportant things.  Once I had journalled about it I could change what I was doing.  I looked at Jude Hill's blog Spirit Cloth and grace Forest's blog windthread and found the change I was looking for, that is,  I became conscious that much as I now love and enjoy working with books and papers, I don't want to let go of working with textiles - so I am bringing textiles back into my personal creativity which I will share with you later.  On windthread I found a post that changed my whole concept of weaving.  I always thought of weaving as humdrum, flat, and uninspiring.  This post shows such a different perception that I am utterly inspired by it and want to incorporate it into my new piece - no I'm not scattering, this is the personal piece that I won't be using in a book form.

One way in which I thought I could change would be to try out the Picasa photo program that is on my computer.  I took an old photo, of a silk embroidery from a couple of years ago, and in Picasa changed it to Neon.

Silk embroidered Gouldian Finches and Ulysses Butterfly

 Cool!  How different is that?