Inspiration books arrived yesterday:
- Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution
- Couture Crochet Workshop: Mastering Fit, Fashion, and Finesse
- Everyday Crochet: Wearable Designs Just for You
They’re all encouraging and daunting at the same time. My ambitions aren’t quite reflected in any of the books, but they’ll help, i hope.
Inspired yet conflicted, I ripped out most of one seam of the first dress that i’ll be altering by adding top down shell inserts as additional gores.
Later in the evening i found my acrylic palette that is designed to keep paint moist, found the block of palette paper, and cut a template to make the palette paper insert into the sealable palette.
This was the second step in returning to smaller scale work. (Ooh, that sounds so much like i know what i’m doing.) The giant clipboard was the first step, making it easier to work away from the easel.
I did play a bit with tar gel media mixed with the fluid acrylics. I ended up with a strong “primary” color palette, and fiddled for a while. I also discovered that i had bought Colour Shapers a while back, and found those fun to use after smearing pain all over my hand.