GirlMeetsArt » Dimensional http://www.girlmeetsart.com the evolution of a visual artist, the blog of Chris Raymond Thu, 13 May 2010 21:43:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 All dogs go to heaven http://www.girlmeetsart.com/dimensional/all-dogs-go-to-heaven/ http://www.girlmeetsart.com/dimensional/all-dogs-go-to-heaven/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:01:53 +0000 car57 http://www.girlmeetsart.com/?p=200 Doggie heaven sculpture © Chris Raymond
Doggie heaven sculpture view one © Chris Raymond

Doggie heaven sculpture © Chris Raymond
Doggie heaven sculpture view two © Chris Raymond

Well, this week there was bad news and good. The bad news: I couldn’t sleep Monday night. My mind was racing with all the things to worry about regarding my pending move. I took some meds supposedly to help me sleep, but two hours after I went to bed, I woke up and tossed and turned. Finally, 45 minutes later, I gave up hope of getting back to sleep.

Here’s where the good news comes in. I got up and finished Doggie Heaven at long last. I’d been chipping away at it for many weeks, an hour here or there at night. Some (okay, many) nights, not at all. I really felt that I’d bitten off way more than I could chew when I signed up for the Art League School workshop, thinking I would have a piece done over the two days. Hah! That was in March. But something kept me chugging along. Guilt? The thought that I didn’t want the cost of the workshop and supplies to go to waste? The desire to see a fun concept come to completion? No doubt, a combination of all three.]]> http://www.girlmeetsart.com/dimensional/all-dogs-go-to-heaven/feed/ 2 Work in progress: Doggie heaven http://www.girlmeetsart.com/dimensional/work-in-progress-doggie-heaven/ http://www.girlmeetsart.com/dimensional/work-in-progress-doggie-heaven/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 16:45:55 +0000 car57 http://www.girlmeetsart.com/?p=152 Doggie heaven, a fiber sculpture in progress © Chris Raymond
Doggie heaven, a fiber sculpture in progress © Chris Raymond

A sketch of the top and side of dogDog Heaven sketch of tail

Fabrics for Dog Heaven

Having caught the embroidery bug at Penland, when I saw that the Art League School was offering a two-Saturday workshop to make a fiber sculpture, I quickly signed on. Being a dog lover, I decided to create a stylized dog figure that would be large enough to use to hold the day’s mail and my cell phone and keys.

What would a dog’s version of heaven be? Well, for one thing, biscuits would rain down from the skies. Fire hydrants would be plentiful for those calls of nature. And of course, there would always be a hand to rub the tummy. These are a few pics of the work in progress. The head and tail were made from Sculpey. The fabrics have been hanging out in my closet for years after I picked up a pack of remnants at an outlet store.

Update June 20, 2009:

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The dog gains some clothes.

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