I love it. Satin stitch emboidery in chinese style makes me silent and relax. A like cotton threads more then all.
I created several designes of clothes and wrote several books about satin stitch embroidery. My free course you can download hee http://www.ann-mary.com/freebies.shtml
This is my satin stitch with viscose threads:
I know batik technigues and do something like that from time to time. It will be a decoration for interior, hopes i will finish several in nearest future.
It was one of the the hardest education in my life - to learn knitting. However crotchet crafts was easy and soft. Then I combine all technigues in one design!
You can see a lot of my works on Ravelery http://www.ravelry.com/projects/ANNAmain , and that winter I did 5 things (currently unfinished because of long sleeves). Wow, I have to finish it before september but lazy. It is cazy even to me to knit wanm sveaters in so hot summer :) :) :) .
This is normal for me to create something and then to forget it because so many ideas clouds around me and inside. Therefore this is a small resume of my arts, crafts and other creative activity.
My first sculpture I did when I was 11-years old, oh - it was the great history with glory and blood! One day I will tell it. Many sculptures I did from sand, plastic matherials, wood, clay... It is interesting and impressive to create in 3D format.
The most beautiful and perfect thing I have ever seen is clouds. This is today sunrise.
The greatest panorama greets from my 21-floor window: infinity of green forests, nearly prominent skyline and very small number of houses. And the clouds spreads over that glory.
Just choose the color! Pink? It is the blush on the cloud`s tummys when the sun just going to rise. It happens about 5 o`clock in summer and hardly ever seen in winter. This pink as if it lightly violet, and lilac, with slightly inkling to a drowsy mist.
In the daytime the same basic pink color has changed. It has been just impregnating by in-between tints of honey, from slightly yellow to deepest, sweetest shadows. Bright-rose color has been only on the edges of clouds. It`s shadow as if ruddy, mellow apple.
On the surest the pink color of clouds has changed in the third time. Now it is glutted by crimson splashes, filled by bright-orange on their edges.
Who said that fluorescent colors are unfamiliar in the nature? All of that colors are here! You can paint the evening clouds by a simple office highlighter, and the colors will be true. At that time clouds as if they flaming from inside, especially from their back side.
Let`s see to another colors. How about blue? This is the deep-deep sky. The endless deep-blue far away, then it is slightly dashed by light-yellow-green. It`s shadow so light than will determined only by experienced eye. By homely glance you can see not more than water down blue as if you mixed white color with general blue. But look attentively to that shadow, it is not nearly white!
Here it is all gradations of milk, from transparent-white to drawn-milk color. And in inaccessible height blue color becomes bright and deep dark blue.
My love to the clouds is a gleam of desire to see a virgin perfection. It makes me happy. It protect me from dingy, grip, commonplace, powerless and flat human society`s colors.
Hey-hey, I have started a new funny project I called Cats-yoga! :) Now I have made several pictures about yoga`s asanas as it could been made by cats.
Later I will write a coulpe words about the character I create, Misha the Cat. Now I only like to draw it by fine brush and black ink. The process make me in meditative mood because I like to work with calligraphy style, brushes and black ink. So pleasant peaceful thing.
It`s the great rain now! Like a shower! The day began a bit cloudy and then a big clouds covered all sky up to horizon:
I owerslept everything and went to the market too late so the great tropical rain shower me at all. Unfortunately there was no foto to meka a picture of such disaster. And when I came back in 5 minuter it was a clear view!
I guess it`s specially for a lazy landlady as I am. So I came home absolutely wet with my shoes and clothes full of water.
Hah, funny! It`s something like adventure for that day :)
Lady and Gentlemen! Dear friends! Anna have the day out of work and get enough sleep the first time at that month! Oh my god! How small things could make us happy! So I want to introduce you my resent work:
It was the awful day, full of unprepared graduation works refered to me and students unready to prepare their graduation works by themselves. Than I fell myself so bad and had to recur to my art. Art and painting recover me from all situations, but I had no blanks for it... so I stole a white shirt of my brother Alex and did with it something you can see at the picture.
The technolagy to paint it I developed last september 2009 (the period I , did my t-shirt collection, taught Mary Terechina and created the site www.ann-mary.com ). It is hard to paint on fabrics bacause you can`t controle the colors and water. Everything based on hight intuition and feeling of grains of fabric. The water and colors flows in differend ways depends on type of fabric, direction of stratchin, nature of fabric etc. So the techigue needs a great experience of work with water colors, deep understanding the final idea and sense of the process. So that work is somethig like meditation and pure zen.
...But it`s enough of philosophy! Tjis is my new design deducated to fishes. Why fishes I don`t remember; if I do I`ll tell you. Let`s see it :) .
Also I did several another designs I`ll show lated and created a funny cat-yoga pictures you can see later.
Hello everybody! Next day it will be the final of graduation process and exams for all students. A small joke from me for them.
All characters belongs to the authors, of course.
Subj! that week was so hard that I can` feel the taste og tea and food, can`t sleep and work.
And I was follen to sleep at 6:00 PM and slept up to midnight and didn`t feel myself refresh but found the fresh mails from students. That term is really hard and i am looking forward to my holidays in Liapades, Corfu, Greece. I desire and dream about the sea.
Tht week was awful. A lot of students i saw the first time appear on the horizon of my life with their unfinished graduation works.
Most of them have no ideas about the deadline, graduation work`s structure and my own free time. Actually I have no free time. They found me on Skype at any time, includes 7:00 PM up to 4:00 AM. Thanks God for Skype and typing, it is the best thing for professors like me to make an advice. God bless advisors, God bless professors, and let our students to make better works.
P.S. I am going to hate mibile phone. students calls me too and it is much more noisy and annoying that anything else.
P.P.S. God bless Skype. I love it!
