My friend told me that you would like to see the sketches from the early morning earlier this week. I am taking a chance as my fears linger about stolen designs and failures to copyright properly. I had planned to sit on the sketches till the actual pieces were done for however long that should take. Something about a dramatic entrance that takes root in my soul. A good surprise is good for everyone I think. So, the sketches succumbed to paper over about an hour. I had just completed looking over books on different Native American tribes. There is a handful in the library and I am grateful for it. Whatever I took notes on previously in the week finally arranged itself in my subconscious and I drew. The following is a photograph of the notes. The shading is incomplete on some of the drawings. You will no doubt figure that out. I have plans to create larger drawings per each and write out my construction and color notes. My goal is to use what I have and only that. To me that will strengthen my skills and whatever may be lacking may be made up in construction technique and execution. In other words, I'm ready for a longer stay per quilt. Timing is not an issue anymore. Beautiful execution is. Just to close on that note, I'm looking forward to that package of seed beads arriving. They'll go into the quilt drawn on the bottom left in a few asymmetrically placed bands of color. It may be ill appropriate for a bed after that point. Still the paired shapes stayed with me for days. Then I saw them substituted with bison hoof prints. Then I understood. I was still training and The Medicine Wars Project came alive to me again. I wish I still had my poster of animal prints. If I remember correctly, it ranged from marsupials to buffalo in ink on white paper. Instinct and spirit has me find these things, but I can never seem to keep them. Time and time enough. I had what I needed for the time. Someone else may have needed that knowledge just as much as I did.
Good lessons become ingrained in the mind, spirit and soul.
As ever, stay hungry and curious.