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[1st] Food for thought

10 Friday Oct 2014

Posted by Deidhre Wauchop in About, Food for thought, NEO

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addicted to new, animations, artist practice, blogging101, chevrons, colour addiction, colourlovers, Hidden Springs for artists, missoni, Prism art studio, rico, Sims 3, stripes, vimeo, yarn fix

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Here’s a brief round-up of stimulus this week—who and what has given me more stimulus, more inspiration, more pies (!) to add to the legion:


CHEVRONS AND COLOURLOVERS (feeding stripe addiction, feeding colour addiction)

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Stripes and chevrons are everywhere at the moment. Even Missoni is pandering to the fad through their own knock-offs in Target. I have a nice pattern for a knitted chevron cushion using Rowan yarn, so have been testing colour ways in COLOURlovers.


YARN FIX (feeding knit addiction, feeding colour addiction)

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In the last couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting with chunky and super chunky knits. I’m motivated to design a big chunky cowl and this Rico yarn is supposed to be super light, perfect for a big cowl. Expensive, though, so I’m saving up.


BEAUTY IN VIDEO (feeding stripe addiction, feeding earth texture addiction, feeding colour addiction)

These clips caught my eye in my weekly peruse of Vimeo. I’m still hankering to do some animation, but again it’s something you have to get immersed in so when that happens it will be only one finger in one pie for a while.

 

 

 


SIMS 3 (feeding SIMS world dominance addiction)

In Sims 3 posts in my blog artist practice, I talk about playing with Sims that are tailor-made to be artists. I’ve spent some time recently trying to edit various worlds to suit an artist community. It’s harder than I thought and very time-consuming.

This week I downloaded the Prism art studio which has inspired a new attempt to create a bespoke Hidden Springs for artists. A long-term project for sure.

artisthouses

Artist residences

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Artist precinct

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Painting studio

That’s the round-up for this week!

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Meta pie

15 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by Deidhre Wauchop in Meta pie

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art of the pie, art practice, artist practice, deidhre wauchop, food promise, mastercrafting, meta pie, too many pies

MEAT, no, Meta pie!

 

Welcome to Too Many Pies‘s first post.

 

If you read my ABOUT page, I’m talking about what I do and what I aspire to do. This blog is my way of drawing together the threads of aspiration. It’s a ‘Meta’ pie—a pie about the pies. So here I start to talk about some of those many interests that I have. No talk yet about the specifics, just an overview for you:

 

Art of the Pie

I have an art practice (painting, digital work, collage/assemblage). I also have a blog, Artist Practice that tracks and reflects on my practice.

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Related to my art practice, I have an obsession with materials (things like yarn, fabric, paper, beads), which leads me to collect them, which inspires ideas for other creative projects. This is my single greatest distraction, and the biggest pie-proliferator. My Mastercrafting blog is dominated by knit projects at the moment, but is aimed at tracking my progress in developing new skills, techniques and designs with all manner of materials.

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Pies, literally

I love cooking and have recently acquired an interest in gardening as an aesthetic and functional support for my kitchen. My Food promise blog, though a bit in the doldrums of late, is a documentation of how I feel about food. It will chronicle how and what we eat—both day to day and on special occasions. I get particularly excited about the food photography part of this venture and look forward to designing and documenting unique, authentic, healthy recipes.

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Slice of the MEAT Meta Pie

That’s just a little slice of the Meta Pie. There are so many more slices, and many more pies!

I assume that I’m not the only one with this ‘problem’. This problem of being interested in the world, and in particular, the creative world. And I guess there are other bloggers who work their way through the issue of organising diverse content and dealing with competing interests. I look forward to joining and connecting with like-minded people!

 

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I'm an explorer - of the visual world and the intersections between visual arts, dance and technology. 'Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.' Rene Magritte

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