Confidence

Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you for the wave of support and thoughtful comments!  It really did help.  Truthfully, I am OK with the idea of the self-taught creative, but it seems to me that there are certain disciplines (I suppose most notably the ones that are generally classified as "fine" arts) in which a basic level of formal training makes the distinction betweeen professional and amateur glaringly obvious, and painting is one of those.  And while the primitive / naive look is a legitimate genre, it's not an identity I am striving for.  Also, this particular venue features a number of amazing painters, and rightly or wrongly, jewellery and textiles tend to be on the fringes of what many folk call legitimate art, so.... I didn't want to be any more blatantly a pretender than I already fear I am.   Not that anyone has ever so much as insinuated that, come to think of it, so this may well be all in my own imagination, based on tales of critics I have never met, of work I have never seen.  I'm rambling.

To make a long convoluted story short, I think that the scarves are good enough to enter.  Well, three of them are (according to my instincts), and I have plans for a couple more which I will finish up tomorrow (curse those extended deadlines and their prolonged agony).  There are no guarantees with ArtWalk anyway - it is a series of retail stores who participate by displaying local artists' work for the summer, so acceptance of functional art depends more on an appropriate location being entered and interested, since display is a little more complicated than hanging a picture on a wall.  I got a wholesale account for my jewellery and notecards out of last year's entry, so it is well worth the effort.  Regardless, the scarves will be in the Farmer's Market and (eventually) on the website.

Enough of that.  How about some photos?

It was warm and sunny today... at last!  Which, happily, means I can turn the patio into a dye studio.

Comments

[--Deb]

Beautiful, as always.