tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37406504358172994782024-02-19T07:46:11.193-08:00The Travels of a QuilterDianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-19471900369743298592022-03-01T16:29:00.001-08:002022-03-01T16:29:09.504-08:00Gaudi mosaicsDianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-83383809506700767212017-06-18T11:51:00.001-07:002017-06-18T11:51:42.983-07:00Photography course: Week 24 - ElementsThe assignment for this week was to capture one (or more) of the original four elements as espoused by the Greeks. Water, Earth, Air and Fire. <br />
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Water seemed the easiest as I am at the cottage, but how to portray it in different fashion? I finally decided that my best photo was that of a scene, taken during the Golden Hour and slightly edited in both Lightroom and Photoshop. The clouds blowing across the sky represent the Air, the granite boulders, so profuse in our area, the Earth, and the Water of course, speaks for itself. <br />
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This is the one selected for the course: A scene taken from our dock looking north on Lake Memphremagog. <br />
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A black and white shot of a very turbulent lake.<br />
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The reflection of a large granite boulder beside a shallow section near the shore.<br />
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Practicing close-ups with a friend's 100 lens. Water drops on a clematis.<br />
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Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-39320841710364563402017-05-01T06:06:00.000-07:002017-05-01T06:22:52.822-07:00Alex Janvier at the National Art Gallery in OttawaOur Text'art group had a lovely visit to see the work of Alex Janvier in Ottawa. He has a wonderful way with colour and design. I've posted a few pictures for you to see.<br />
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These last two are from a painting in the National History museum. Above is the entire piece at the top of a stairwell - quite huge and very dramatic. Below is a detail. </div>
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-19853254207329799802017-03-31T13:31:00.001-07:002017-03-31T13:31:29.960-07:00Photography Course - MarchIt's not always easy to get inspired pictures when the weather is either too cold, too rainy or too something. But I guess that's where imagination needs to kick in!!<br />
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Board Games with a theme of Harmony</div>
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This really required imagination as all my games were at the cottage. Nary a pack of cards or cribbage board in the house. I borrowed these four from a friend and used the liquid tool in PS to distort. </div>
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An earlier post shows other variations of this. It involves twisting the lens as the photo is being taken to get the streaky/blurred effect. Robbie shoveling at the cottage</div>
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We had to do one of the techniques over. I chose Tack Sharp which means the photo needs to be sharp from front to back. And an item in front is required to show that you did this. They are taking down a highway in Montreal and it's been quite fascinating watching the process as we drive by. Not too many vantage points though to take a good picture and by the time I found this one, much of the pillars had been taken down.</div>
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This shot was based on my photo of a rusted iron wall on a modern building at MacDonald College in Sainte Anne de Bellevue. I lightened it up quite a bit and then combined it with a photograph of the old mill in Pointe Claire. </div>
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The texture on the left is a photo of a rusted wall. I changed the exposure quite a bit to brighten it up. <br />
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Interestingly there was an ad in the newspaper yesterday which used exactly this technique.<br />
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The next theme was Black and White- how to convert in Lightroom and play with the colour if necessary. This is a shot taken at the McGill Arboretum the day after a good snowfall. The original photo was almost b&w as it was such a gray day.<br />
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The last for the month is Mirror Image. This was more of a play in Photoshop than anything else. This is part of the course - to learn how to use both Photoshop and Lightroom. This is a wall hanging in stainless steel and painted metal. I turned it into B&W to hide the colour of the wall behind it. I cropped the original picture only on one side, thereby removing the frame so it wouldn't show in the middle. It's a West Coast design by Jack Willoughby<br />
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Thank you for looking. I appreciate your comments and suggestions.Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-73045280270422040352017-02-02T16:18:00.000-08:002017-02-02T16:18:21.755-08:00Photography Course - JanuaryI have signed up for a year long photography course with Ricky Tims who many of you know as a quilter par excellence! He is also an avid photographer and musician. I had the privilege of hearing him play a few years ago. Great concert.<br />
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His course is aimed at people with DSLRs and since I have one that I really don't know how to use, I thought it would be a great exercise as we are given an assignment each week which forces me to get the camera out and learn more about it each time.<br />
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We have had 5 assignments in January (they come out on Sunday mornings) and we have a week to produce one photograph for submission to his site. <br />
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So here are January's. (Since it is winter here, and sometimes very cold or snowing or raining or worse I couldn't always work outside)<br />
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Selective Focus: showing shallow depth of field (front in focus, back blurred)<br />
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Find a Line: One of the 7 elements in art. Klee said that a line is a dot that has gone for a walk. A rather erratic one in this case! This was taken from the underside of a bird feeder and the serrated edge is a thin sheet of metal designed to keep the squirrels off.<br />
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Windows: A very cold week to be outside! The lesson here was to learn a few Lightroom edits.<br />
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Tack Sharp: Playing with our f stop and time amongst other things to make the picture be in focus from front to back. This is not an inspired composition, but it did achieve the goal.<br />
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One Shape: Learning a bit about composing the shot. This is the underside of a footstool. And with a little play in Lightroom, the colours became a little more playful. We are not allowed to crop just yet.<br />
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This is looking to be a fun year and I will try and post my results each month. Thank you for looking and I always appreciate comments and feedback. Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-2732456316384004942017-01-09T16:51:00.000-08:002017-01-09T16:51:03.485-08:00Morocco - the Sahara<div style="text-align: center;">
Driving through this part of the desert we came across these small hills which had been dug up centuries ago to access the miles of tunnels below which brought water from the mountains to the villages. The second photo shows the well access.</div>
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And below are the attempts to control the movement of the sand onto the road</div>
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Our first glimpse of the dunes! if you open the picture you will see the village on the right which gives a perspective of how high they are.</div>
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Starting out on our camel ride in the late afternoon to catch the sunset. We were well wrapped with burnooses to keep our heads warm but there was no wind so no blowing sand. Shades of Lawrence of Arabia!! </div>
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The ride ended at a very nice hotel where a room was waiting for us to shower and change and then on to a breakfast buffet on a terrace overlooking the dunes. <br />
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We left Marrakesh and headed towards the Atlas mountains. The scenery the whole way was quite spectacular made more so by the sporadic occurrences of Berber villages. It was beginning to get quite cool - going down to 0C some nights. </div>
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The gray trees that you see below are olive trees. </div>
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Below is the old town of Ait Benhaddou which dates back to the 17th Century and was on the old caravan route of trade goods flowing from the Sahara to Marrakesh. It is now a Unesco world heritage site and a few families still live in it.</div>
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The sunset view from the top</div>
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and the view from across the river</div>
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The Todra gorge, still in the High Atlas Mountains</div>
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This yawning mouth is a cave in the side of a small cliff and is used by nomads to keep goats. As it was winter the nomads had moved on. </div>
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This an overview of the caves. The animals stay inside the rock outlined pen and the people live outdoors.</div>
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These are the Monkey Fingers in the Dades gorge - an accumulation of rounded rocks that fills a long gorge.</div>
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Going over a pass in the mountains</div>
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Villages often seemed perched or even built into the side of these hills</div>
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We are now in the Middle Atlas mountains on our way home from the Sahara (stay tuned for the next episode!) Not as high, but certainly with a good covering of snow</div>
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We were going through on a Sunday and this hill was crowded with families sledding and some even had skis.</div>
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Also along the way was the Cedar forest which has families of Barbery apes. </div>
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Thanks for looking and I hope you are enjoying the voyage.</div>
Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-22297420553016708442017-01-05T16:29:00.001-08:002017-01-05T16:29:55.401-08:00Morocco - The Medinas of Marrakesh and FesRobbie, Rebecca and I spent a week in Morocco over the Christmas holidays. Sarah had just boarded her ship in Durban, South Africa for another 10 week stint as Second Officer so couldn't join us. <br />
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We were met at the airport in Casablanca by Miloud, our driver and guide for the week from Morocco Explored who organized our week's itinerary and hotels etc. It was a super week and we felt well taken care of. Throughout Morocco we were impressed by the infrastructure of roads and water systems. We drank water in all our hotels without any problems at all. <br />
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Our first outing was in Marrakesh and we were excited to be inside the old walls and in the market. We got ourselves both lost and found - we had the first afternoon to ourselves and enjoyed just wandering. There are so many little alleys with donkeys and motorcycles and scooters competing for space with the people. <br />
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The pictures below are of Marrakesh. <br />
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In Fes we had another guide and were able to have an overview of the medina. I almost think it was more convoluted inside than Marrakesh, but that may be because we didn't spend as much time in it.<br />
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The next three photos are of our Riad El Jacoub which was formerly a palace built in the mid-1600s. The decoration and style were stunning. And all hidden away behind an innocuous medina wall.<br />
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We went to a pottery place to watch the process. A lot of very fine work! <br />
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The pieces are laid face down and then covered with a grout/cement to produce the type of tiling pattern above. This means that the entire design rests in the head of the person laying the tile. Extraordinary!</div>
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The metal workers souk</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the furnace that heats the Hammam (sauna) - he just keeps throwing in sawdust.</td></tr>
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In Fes, no motorcycles or cars were allowed in the medina, just donkeys. you can see from the ramps on the stairs that this was for wagons.<br />
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I hope you have enjoyed these photos. I will do other posts for other parts of our trip. As you can probably tell, we loved our visit. If you have comments about these or about your own visit there, I would love to receive them. </div>
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This year, starting January 1st, my course with Elizabeth Barton began with her mandate to strengthen our art quilt skills. Which I think she accomplished with her organized topics and her insightful comments as our work progressed. Each lesson had a specific goal, with examples and references to a multitude of artists, and musicians to help us out.</div>
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This is based on a picture I took of the chapel on Lykovitas hill in Athens. I originally did it in white with gray but it was too stark so I overpainted it with the light blue, giving a moonlight feel.</div>
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The lesson was on movement to bring the art to life and help the viewer's eye move around.</div>
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I've had numerous interpretations of this piece. It was originally meant as a ski slope and the blue I had used as sky didn't work. Yellow was EB's suggestion, and I think it really inspired it. However it has given some the sense of sand and waves. Let me know at the end how you see it! </div>
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Line. And how it influences the viewer - movement, contrast, mood. </div>
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This is based on a stairwell at the Tate. One valuable lesson I've learned is to crop - there is more interest in a small section than trying to recreate the whole photo.</div>
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Landscape. Less is more - take out and rearrange the items in a photo. That is our liberty as an artist - to make the piece our own.</div>
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This is based on a scene outside the window at the Hermitage Retreat which many of my fellow quilters will recognize. And yes, there were more trees, poles for bird feeders etc. This is still a work in progress - a little more apricot paint is in order I think.</div>
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I did two pieces for this as it was also the deadline for my 12 by the dozen art group and Paul Klee was our theme. Hence the piece below - a pieced background overlayed with dyed cheesecloth and appliqué on top.</div>
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The second piece was created by playing with sticks and seeing how their shadows fell. Perhaps not much transparency, but well layered. </div>
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June was a month for us to critique - using what we'd learnt in the lessons above, and an opportunity to re-do one of the exercises. Hmm, didn't do it! </div>
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Rhythm. It creates unity and involves repetition. We listened to some excellent music suggestions for this. My piece is based on the rivulets that one sees in the sand on a beach. </div>
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And another month that didn't get done. Not a subject that appeals to me and, I discovered in the sketching phase, that I know how to play with. Something for another day. And August was simply a very busy travelling month. That's my excuse! </div>
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Lost and Found edges</div>
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To create illusion and again, interest.</div>
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So these are my birches in the snow. </div>
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Dominant colour, dominant mood.</div>
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The overall intent of this piece was to create a mood of spring, with soft calm colours. But just a burst of bright sunrise colour. </div>
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Working from a photo. The trick was that we all worked from the same three photos provided by EB and they weren't particularly great ones. What she didn't want was a photographic interpretation, but an abstract of something we saw in the photos. One of them was Central Park NYC with banners by Christo so this is how I saw it. Not quite finished, and probably needs cropping. </div>
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Along with the technical lessons I have grown in confidence and feel that I will be able to better assess my own work as I go along. I have also learned to work bigger! </div>
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If you have thoughts about this I would love to hear from you. </div>
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Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-5458742818126076452016-12-15T14:51:00.000-08:002016-12-15T14:51:07.701-08:00Alex's QuiltBelow is a quilt that I made for my nephew Alex who has graduated as a Doctor of Pharmacy as well as a Doctor of Medicine and I thought it was about time he had a tribute from me to celebrate these achievements. Proud aunt or what! <br />
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-24698123255943413962016-11-04T16:23:00.000-07:002016-11-04T16:23:41.927-07:00Brome Lake Quilt Retreat Nov 2016Our annual retreat at the inn on Brome Lake (now called Hôtel Suites Lac-Brome) was a great success as always. Our numbers were down - just 12 of us, but hopefully next year we'll be back up to our usual complement. We arrive on Sunday and get set up in a lovely room overlooking the lake and are spoiled by the staff from then on with excellent meals, fresh coffee during the day and lovely lunches served in our work room. <br />
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Below are some photos taken on walks in the area.</div>
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-67126101764402226872016-09-29T18:19:00.001-07:002016-09-29T18:19:30.335-07:00River Brink museumRiver Brink Museum is a lovely gem on the Niagara Parkway, a short bike ride from Niagara on the Lake. It was originally built as the home of Sam Weir, a King's Counsel, who all along had intended to bequeath it as an art gallery. The land was purchased on the bank of the Niagara river in 1943 and the house finally finished in 1970.<br />
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Right now there is an exhibit of work by Campbell Scott, a Scot who trained in Scotland as a cabinet maker. After he came to Canada he trained as a teacher and taught at the Ste Catherine Collegiate. He pursued his art in sculpture, pottery, painting and printing, travelling to many countries including Japan to better his art. <br />
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Below is a plate for printing</div>
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and this is one of the prints produced from it.</div>
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and more of his work. Do click on them to make them bigger- they look so much better.</div>
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-30169970872060031802016-09-08T16:11:00.000-07:002016-09-08T16:11:30.294-07:00A Bike and Sail trip in Scotland<div style="text-align: center;">
We spent a week traveling in Scotland with Island Hopping, a bicycle tour company, on the ship below - a two masted schooner from the Netherlands. Despite the tiny rooms, the whole experience was great - staff went out of their way to make us comfortable and the lounge area was big enough to hang around in after a day's cycling.</div>
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We started the tour in Oban which you can see in the three pictures below. </div>
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On our first day out the sails were hoisted - here's Robbie helping out!</div>
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our first castle sighting from the ship - Duarte, home of the Maclean clan</div>
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Some of the "wildlife" on the route- a few Highland cattle.</div>
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Typical scenery along the trail on the Isle of Mull</div>
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The heather was in full bloom throughout</div>
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We did lots of riding along the coast</div>
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Below is Tobermory, a charming little town with lots of brightly painted houses, shops and good restaurants. </div>
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Back in Oban where we climbed the hill to visit McQuaig's tower</div>
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It was a great trip and I thoroughly enjoyed my electric bicycle. I think the highlands would have been a wee dram too much.</div>
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The last point on our cycling- at the end of the canal.</div>
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I hope you've enjoyed seeing the pictures and places. I love to hear if you've travelled here too. </div>
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This was one of many vistas from the site.</div>
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Some other cottages</div>
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And other residents - if you open the picture and look closely you will see two little heads. Not sure if they were swifts or swallows. </div>
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And our backyard</div>
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Another house on the site.</div>
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We spent our days touring the countryside and had a visit to Stokesay Castle. This is the lovely entryway to the castle</div>
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And inside</div>
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Another day we did the Black and White tour to the towns of Ludlow, Pembridge and Leominster to see the timbered houses. </div>
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The bell tower - and I can't remember the church! Leave me a comment if you know: from Hilary with thanks: Note about the church and bell tower:<br />The church of St Mary the
Virgin in Pembridge dates from between 1320 and 1360. Around the same
time there was built what has been described as probably the finest of
Herefordshire’s seven detached belfries. It is a three-storey
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The Gang. And we were so fortunate to have warm, sunny weather.</div>
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Another day found us at Berrington Hall which had lovely gardens at the back.</div>
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Sweetpeas in all sorts of colours, and artichokes </div>
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There was a display inside of mannequins dressed in paper outfits by Denise Watson. There was a celebration of Capability Brown's work on the estate as well as part of celebrations throughout the UK on the 300th year of his birth.</div>
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We walked to Buckingham palace, saw a few guards marching by and then headed off to Harrods and the V&A museum. So lovely to have the museums be free - you don't feel that you have to see everything in one go.<br />
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The London Eye is still going strong but this is as close as we got. We walked to the Tate Modern to see a fabulous exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe's work but unfortunately couldn't take pictures.<br />
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Westminster Abbey - with too long a line to get in!</div>
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St Paul's cathedral - the sun shone on it just for a minute.</div>
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A quilted outfit from 1640! </div>
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-23944923963596720752016-08-16T02:23:00.000-07:002016-08-16T02:23:28.267-07:00Festival of Quilts 2016The Festival of Quilts has just finished and I have so enjoyed it! There are so many different aspects to it. The British Guild exhibit, modern quilts, special displays by Russian, Korean and Japanese quilt artists, Claire Benn, SAQA, EQA....... And lots of vendors! And a section where teachers have a small booth to sell their books and kits and show their work. <br />
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Below are some of the first prize winners. </div>
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Immediately below is a piece by Laura Kemshall which is a photograph that is about 30x70" (total guess on my part) which has been quilted with words and patterns. Detail in the picture below.</div>
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This is a quilt by Linda Forey made with blocks given to her by the Beaconsfield Quilt Guild when she left Montreal</div>
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-46909781728851803002016-08-08T12:00:00.001-07:002016-08-08T12:00:40.648-07:00Cape CodOur second annual visit to Welfleet where Doug and Sandy have rented a cottage. It overlooks the Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary. I wish I could say that we saw lots of birds but we didn't - it always seemed to be low tide when I looked out<br />
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There is a park where one can walk around and it's very pretty and overlooks the swampy areas. We came across a number of wild turkeys on the walk. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i2ptxYGxzMFHoT8BTR5gWC1iDJQcvFgq9c0METQbn5z0MS-AmCH8LcQm_KLnq2U0mwu3SFJJQSz0qfr-l3lIjA36yb8EYCWZZOuY7brCmHe3cHwYxFXY78NWiozlnN2ZuNVyJpmfDImq/s1600/IMG_1542.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeHsiqTpsN71CjdtNF5twGRaAD-7xzTtu1E7v-EquQi0hQVFuR5AZxNQFmYrRkYq7z-zwBWrHouKAocp813qVO5V-EEsglVwzuvPOo-RjxlP7fGu4jcE5wtMd1incluKzAaZQe13guHqR/s1600/IMG_1548.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeHsiqTpsN71CjdtNF5twGRaAD-7xzTtu1E7v-EquQi0hQVFuR5AZxNQFmYrRkYq7z-zwBWrHouKAocp813qVO5V-EEsglVwzuvPOo-RjxlP7fGu4jcE5wtMd1incluKzAaZQe13guHqR/s1600/IMG_1548.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeHsiqTpsN71CjdtNF5twGRaAD-7xzTtu1E7v-EquQi0hQVFuR5AZxNQFmYrRkYq7z-zwBWrHouKAocp813qVO5V-EEsglVwzuvPOo-RjxlP7fGu4jcE5wtMd1incluKzAaZQe13guHqR/s1600/IMG_1548.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeHsiqTpsN71CjdtNF5twGRaAD-7xzTtu1E7v-EquQi0hQVFuR5AZxNQFmYrRkYq7z-zwBWrHouKAocp813qVO5V-EEsglVwzuvPOo-RjxlP7fGu4jcE5wtMd1incluKzAaZQe13guHqR/s320/IMG_1548.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i2ptxYGxzMFHoT8BTR5gWC1iDJQcvFgq9c0METQbn5z0MS-AmCH8LcQm_KLnq2U0mwu3SFJJQSz0qfr-l3lIjA36yb8EYCWZZOuY7brCmHe3cHwYxFXY78NWiozlnN2ZuNVyJpmfDImq/s1600/IMG_1542.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9i2ptxYGxzMFHoT8BTR5gWC1iDJQcvFgq9c0METQbn5z0MS-AmCH8LcQm_KLnq2U0mwu3SFJJQSz0qfr-l3lIjA36yb8EYCWZZOuY7brCmHe3cHwYxFXY78NWiozlnN2ZuNVyJpmfDImq/s320/IMG_1542.JPG" width="320" /></a> </div>
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We had a nice walk on the Great Island Trail which took us along sand dunes and then across to the ocean side beach. It was very beautiful and interesting to see the various landscapes - oak forest to grasses to extensive beach.</div>
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And we had our afternoon swim at Lecount Hollow Beach at Maguires Landing. It was very hot and the water very cold! Last year we saw seals in the water but not so this time.<br />
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A walk along the beach at the Great Island trail provided the source for a small quilt that I made for an assignment for my course with Elizabeth Barton. The theme for July was rhythm. <br />
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-52305334893996878072016-07-18T05:00:00.000-07:002016-07-18T05:00:20.151-07:00More IndigoThe dye bath that we used at our retreat is still kicking. It's been boosted a few times with thiox and I think may finally be losing it's oomph but I haven't thrown it out yet. It's not quite as iridescent as before. However it did a great job of over dyeing Colleen's emerald green scarf.<br />
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and these are going to be fun socks to wear. <br />
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This is a pillow case that was looking rather aged. The dye is definitely fading. <br />
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And a little of nature's indigo! Blue jay feathers.<br />
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-24445540651256676682016-07-17T16:50:00.000-07:002016-07-17T16:50:34.280-07:00Text'Art RetreatOnce again the group of us spent four lovely days at the cottage with
a variety of things that we organized to do. This included felting
scarves, indigo dyeing, sewing and just relaxing.<br />
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Lauma organized silk organza for us to make scarves using wool roving to felt into it. It was a labour intensive work involving lots of water, lots of rolling in bubble wrap, and having our arms shaken out of their sockets using a sander to pound. Many hours of work per scarf and many hours of work for Lauma who kindly saw that we did it right and came out with great success as shown below.<br />
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On the side, I prepared an indigo dye bath using ProChem's PRO Indigo mixed with lye and thiox and it grew to a lovely colour - an iridescent purple crust on top and a lovely lime-green below. <br />
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when the fabric comes out of the dye bath it is greenish and oxidizes to a lovely deep blue. The more often it is dipped, the darker the blue. Below are pieces tied, twisted and scrunched to produce various effects.<br />
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Colleen keeping her work down - it floats otherwise.<br />
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<br />Of course, the cocktail hour is an important part of the day, which includes the above work, walks and swims.<br />
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-73946219176943950422016-05-22T16:54:00.001-07:002016-05-22T16:54:48.229-07:00Photography at the CottageLast weekend my photography group went to the cottage for a few days to practice different techniques. Some of us have new cameras and needed some time to figure them out. Maria Korab-Lakowska is the professional in the group and so kind and helpful with our problems. Needless to say, the potluck food was delicious.<br />
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We drove down via the Abbaye de Saint Benoit du Lac on Lake Memphremagog. The monastery was founded for Benedictine monks in 1912 although the building you see below was built much later. They are famous for their cheeses and apple products, both of which are sold in their store along with other tasty items.<br />
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The rest of the photos are mine except for the group shot at the end. These two below were taken inside the Abbaye. <br />
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The sunset one evening at the lake was quite glorious and lasted quite a long time. It gave us lots of opportunity to play with our settings.<br />
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We stopped in at the Wheeler's farm to take some pictures. <br />
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Below are from the Tomifobia bike trail. No white trilliums, just red ones.<br />
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We were learning how to take a photo of an object at night. Now to try it on some flowers!<br />
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Here we are at the Michael Dunn park at the south end of the lake. <br />
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-17439770748180087772016-04-13T08:20:00.001-07:002016-04-13T08:34:37.123-07:00Montreal Botanical Gardens - ButterfliesEvery year the Botanical Gardens hosts a display of butterflies from February to April. A great way to shake off the doldrums of winter is to have a visit inside the greenhouse that is teeming with many varieties of butterflies, one of which is the spectacular Blue Morpho. Here are a few shots that I took when I went with my photography group.<br />
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<br />Dianne Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03416905709030691188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740650435817299478.post-76659160135104353872016-04-12T16:26:00.001-07:002016-04-12T16:26:56.580-07:00Course workI've been taking a masterclass with Elizabeth Barton which started in January and runs the whole year. Each month we get a different assignment and are expected to submit sketches for review and comment, then we do a blocked out piece that she can critique before it's finished, and then, hopefully we finish the piece! <br />
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So here are a few that I have done so far.<br />
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The first month we were to produce something in grey scale. Not necessarily grey, but shades of one colour so we could study value. This is the church at the top of Lykavittos hill in Athens. In the photo I took it was gleaming white so I've tried to give it a moonlight feel. <br />
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February's task was to use movement in our piece. I had been skiing at Marmot Basin so had ski tracks on the brain. However I've discovered that not everyone sees the same thing and I have had it suggested that it looks like waves rolling in on a beach, amongst other things. Let me know if you see something else! I have to give Elizabeth credit for suggesting the yellow. I pulled this one out of my stash and it just glowed - the turquoise sky I had used just wasn't helping. <br />
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And then I took a 2 day course with Jennifer Day at MQX in Manchester, NH last week on machine embroidery. She supplied us with stock photos printed on cotton and a range of 700 thread colours to play with. It was a bit "paint by number" but I definitely got the feel of moving the fabric around and playing with colour so it was a good exercise. One day too long though.<br />
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