Stitching

I've been painting and stitching.  Usually I will paint first.  Around 11pm is my painting time then later I will stitch.  I like painting because it is fast for me.  I can lay and manipulate colors quickly. I go into another space where I mostly feel but not think. Now that I am thinking about it... I do my thinking about painting during the day.  Then at night, with paint brush in my hand, I let it go.

With stitching the process is slow, I can make color and shape with thread and fabric.  The slowness gives me time to think.  This piece has been in the making for a year.  I just checked my blog and see I posted the beginning of stitching the center piece a year ago January. Another note to self ...blog more often as it is a record of my work.

So this piece kept growing and keeps getting stitches.  I added the green background but when I look at it cropped I am thinking of losing the green.  What do you think?

In the Show

Long time since I have posted.  Finished "By the Sea #9" in November and entered it into Women Painter's West juried Winter Exhibition. The piece made it in and tomorrow is the show! So excited.