Ronnie Martin New Zealand Textile & Mixed Media Artist
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Creative process once again

17/10/2015

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Okay ,so not as efficient with technology as I thought. After I wrote my blog post somehow only part of it posted so trying again...
My pack arrived and I opened it to find that there were the two colours I dislike the most....orange and mustard. I spent several days looking at them. Maybe if I smiled nicely then a miracle would happen and I would be struck with the perfect design inspiration! Surprisingly, this didn’t happen and I was back to the next best thing-hard work. I played around with ideas which utilised those colours (autumn, sandy beaches etc) , but that was working.
I then thought about a grungy graffiti look where I used black, browns and dirty whites, but that didn’t feel very different. There has been a lot of art produced recently with that style.
After several more sessions it suddenly struck me- I could use the influence of Klimt, one of my favourite artists. I began to experiment with stencils and stamps on scrap fabric. After finding a colour palette of bronze, gold, burnt orange and dark blue-purples it began to look more promising.
As I only have one piece of the mustard felt it had to be right before I started on the actual piece.
Today was the day. I mixed several different bronze colours and stencilled straight on to the felt. I am now committed.

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catherine McDonald
23/10/2015 07:35:35 pm

well done Ronnie. You deserve the success. I love what yuo are doing with the Bernina challenge. My pack was green my favourite colour and Ihave used a piece of left over fabric from another piece as a starting point. Hopefully getting my piece finished this weekend as well

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ronnie martin
26/10/2015 06:42:04 am

Thanks. Will look forward to seeing your piece too. Wondered who the others were who are doing it

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