JEANELLE McCALL

Stitch work, collage, paint are all game to help create  "poetic portraits of oneself done by oneself".  "Secret Self" , 15" x 15", fiber, hand stitched "Yellow Chair", 36" x 24", acrylic, stretched canvas "Red Hat" , 20" x 20", fiber, hand stitched "Yellow Hat" , 20" x 20", fiber, hand stitched "Art is Confession" , fiber, hand and machine stitched, painted "Talking Threads", 72" x 32", fabric, weaving, machine and hand stitching

A short story about Harriet the Turtle She crawled in the garden and wiggled and wiggled and laid her eggs, when she was through, she just crawled off to the pond next-door!  Using a styrofoam lid from my take home container (price still on the lid!), I drew the design on the container lid, brushed on paint and stamped onto paper. Half the fun is scavenging supplies to illustrate the days events. I found some paint from a paint by number kit at the second hand store. Only a few of the paints worked! Oh well, life at the beach. Not very elegant, but captured the event!