Small Journey-Textile

I am taking a Small Journey with Jude Hill at Spirit Cloth http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/
Actually, I have been on a journey with her for the past year...and what I journey she has started me on!  She has fostered my love of textiles and hand stitching.  For several years I decided to take a side path from painting and learn how to quilt.  This quilting was done with a sewing machine and I was driving fast not much time to think.  Then I found Jude and started my journey with hand stitching.  It is slow and meditative,  True... I have many projects in the works and only one finished hand sewn art piece. (actually was finished until I manage to get purple paint on it.  No worries...I will sew something on it.)  Paint and fabric hard to manage the two, or better yet...emerge the two.

So, this piece I started awhile ago, just stitching, then into the waiting box.  Yesterday I decided to see what to do with it.  This reminds me of a window and that is what Jude's journey has started with. Started stitching on it last night, :)  Until next time...

"By the Sea #8"

"By the Sea #8" Oil on Canvas 24" x 36"    Vicki Fisher-Lerer

On my walks I see so many beautiful things that inspire me.  Most generally I walk in the same location, but each night I see something different on my walks.  Maybe the light is different, colors change, the sky is never the same.  I look closely at the things I see, take pictures, sketch and paint from memory and my observations.  Using this as a stepping stone to unlock my imagination.

By the Sea Kelp #8

This was the inspiration for my piece"By the Sea#8". 

Will post the painting tomorrow.

By the Sea Inspiration

For the past three years(maybe it's four years) I try to end my day with a walk at the beach.  Each time I go there, I get inspiration for my work. Although I never really thought about how much is incorporated into what I create until I looked around my studio/living room, dining room, kitchen. The colors, the texture, the subject matter spill into my paintings and my fiber work.  I have recently completed 14 oil paintings of the kelp I see on my walks.  The shape and the colors of the seaweed are so fascinating and so different each evening that I see them.  Tonight I am working on several fiber pieces all by the sea inspired.
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Small study for By the Sea Series Ocean Park

Small study  Oil  6" x 12"                          Vicki Fisher-Lerer
By the Sea Ocean Park

Inspiration for my new oil painting series

Over the summer I worked in oils.  This was my inspiration.  I created around 10 paintings and will post some of them as soon as I have the photos taken.  I am very excited about the work!  Hope to get a show.

Sunset 9/8

Due to an infection in my finger on my right hand my painting has been put on hold.  Such a drag.  I have been sewing a little but with some difficulty.  So...many pictures of the sunsets for inspiration for future projects.  Love the color.

Where I get my Inspiration!

Oil Painting

This is what I have been doing this summer!  I am in love with my oils again.  Maybe it will turn in to a fiber piece?