by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 29, 2017 | Art, Color, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Doilies, Dyeing, Experimentation, Fabric, Found Objects, Innovation, Quilt, Quilting, Sewing, Stitching, Work Wraps
“Your hair seems blue,” a friend noted over dinner.It really is. I’ve joined the blue-rinse gang — emphasis on the blue. Denim blue is an unnatural hair hue that seems only natural now that I’m surrounded by heaps of old jeans and altering all those tones of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 28, 2017 | Abstract Painting, Architecture, Collage, Color, Colour, Composition, Experimentation, Found Objects, Graffiti, Guanajuato, Images, Instagram, Mixed Media, Paint, Painting, Perception, Photography, Social History, Vancouver, Visual Field
It feels like the Internet has killed the fun of taking snapshots of beautiful cities and people. So many times over the last four months in Mexico I’ve raised my camera (phone) to capture an impressive bronze sculpture or some baroque church facade then...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 10, 2016 | Architecture, City Planning, Culture, Design, Environment, Festival, Social Engagement, Street Art, Urban Design, Vancouver
The steps of the Teatro Juarez transform by day and night for the benefit of the walking public. (Carlyn Yandle photo) A month after I landed in Guanajuato, Mexico it finally dawned on me: there are no traffic lights in this bustling city. You’d think that would...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Confundo. (I am confounded.)Never mind that I arrived in a medieval city in Mexico in the middle of the night after a stomach-churning 10-hour bus ride from the coast. Never mind that the next night was the most confounding U.S. election in history. Just the physical...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2016 | Art, Art Show, Artist Residency, Composition, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Eastend, Embroidery, Exhibit, Experimentation, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Innovation, Installation, Landscape, Mixed Media, Needlework, Paint, Painting, Playing, Process, Quilt, Residency, Retreat, Saskatchewan, Scale, Social Engagement, Stitching, Textile, Wallace Stegner House
Day 12 painting: Embroidered details in a scene of a newly “thrashed” hay field. I’ve just returned from a month in the big country of southwest Saskatchewan: big skies, big farming operations, big empty days that were all too much at the start of my...
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