The Design Ramblings of Pam RuBert
Haven’t done much creative work in the last couple of weeks other than draw my brain with my sewing machine. Then I drew/painted it with my new Caran D’ache watercolor crayons as recommended by Joanie (actually she recommended the crayons, not drawing my brain.) I was thinking of calling this “Radioactive Brain” or maybe “Thinking of You.”
So since there isn’t much new material here, sort of like when the screenwriters go on strike, we have to either go to reruns or do a highlights of last season recap. Well, Gwen Magee has done it for me. Amazingly, she waded through my blog archives and interviews and complied a big selection of my design rambling she calls The Design Process of Pam RuBert on the Textile Arts Resource blog. She also links back to my forgotten slide-show of a quilt in progress. She’s got a lot of other good stuff there too, so check it out. Thanks Gwen!
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I'm an artist who makes humorous quilts and drawings and shares a studio in an old peanut butter factory with my husband who is also an artist and sculptor. You can also see more of my art at PamRuBert.com
This is your brain on fiber! I like it. (Hmmm, I must get back to my own needle doodling…)
Hi Kristin, yes, we’ve been going around here with all kind of “my brain on (fill in the blank.)”
Didn’t think of fiber though!
Love it. Put a brain in a jar and you’ve got a great starting point for a mad scientist or alien quilt – mwah ha ha ha. Enjoyed that design process summary that Gwen Magee did for you. Excellent.
Brain in a jar — what an excellent idea!!!
Wow! this is a first for me. I’ve never seen a quilted brain before. You’ve opened my mind (no pun intended) to the possibilities of quilting.
What did you ever do with that piece? If you haven’t found a place for it, I know a scarecrow in OZ who’d be interested. ;0)
V
Hi Christy, actually it’s still sitting on my desk. I was thinking of turning into a pot-holder and called it “the thinking pot-holder.”
And recently I’ve been trying to put together a whole Over the Rainbow theme quilt, so you must be psychic!
Pam, you should submit your brain (the fabric one, that is) to the Museum of Scientifically Accurate Brain Art (your version is accurate enough for me)
http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/Brain/index.htm
Ohmygosh – Gwen, how did you know about this?
I thought you were joking until I went to this website — I can’t believe they have a fiber brain art section and a wooden brain art section also!
I have a new awareness of the strange uncharted regions of the internet…
What a brain!!!
xo
I’ve just gone back and reread your interview and really like your comment: “I don’t think you can fail at creativity because it’s a process. The only way to really fail is not to try.†That is so true. I err on the side of not trying….still being very timid, but I will post your comment in a huge font in my studio, and I think that will help! Thanks!!
Very different from your regular work, everything you do is fantastic and leads to great things. Will be interested to see what you do with this.
This is interesting. My original design for my 2007 Journal Quilt was a drawing of my brain in fine detail, from a MRI. This is almost identical, but the detail in mine was so fine. The problem was, when my eyesight was so very bad a month after I designed it, I couldn’t do the machine work. It is still in a “to do” box.
I wondered why everyone was coming over to visit me after being on your blog! Should have known it was Brainiac Pamdora in action!
Love those crayons!
xxoo
Your brain? How do you know it is your brain? It looks alot like mine. I thought yours would be more colorful.
You know Gerrie, this question you asked has been bugging me for days now. I guess you’re right and I’ll have to do another more colorful version with more personality someday!
That brain art site is amazing. I think your brain definitely qualifies! I’m not clever at names but it looks like a brain bursting with ideas.
Here is another person who has a creative brain.
http://bentobjects.blogspot.com/
This site is a hoot Del. I was looking at it and had to show Russ every other photo I came across!
wow what a brain, I love it! Although like Gerrie I was expecting it to be more colorful…
Hi Natalya, yes, I think both of you are right, I need to do another version, probably in plaid and polka-dot!