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Toque

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October 26, 2015

Thankful for support!

Category Knitting

Required one ball in medium 4 – 100% Acrylic yarn – I used: Red Heart Soft yarn.

Cast on 80 stitches  on 16 inch (41 CM) number 6 (4.00 mm) circular knitting needles.

I prefer Clover Bamboo Circular Knitting Needles.

Rib (Knit 2 Purl 2) for 2 inches.

Change to number 7 (4.50mm) circular knitting needles and increase 1 stitch (to 81 stitches); continue knitting in stocking stitch for 5 inches.        With circular needles you knit each round.

To shape the crown.

Row  1 – Knit 7 stitches knit 2 together for whole round

Row  2 – Knit and every other round

Row  3 – Knit 6 stitches knit 2 together for whole round

Row  5 – Knit 5 stitches knit 2 together for whole round

Row  7 – Knit 4 stitches knit 2 together for whole round

Row  9 – Knit 3 stitches knit 2 together for whole round

Row 11 – Knit 2 stitches knit 2 together for whole round

Row 13 – Knit 1 stitches knit 2 together for whole round

Row 14 – Knit

Row 15 – Knit 2 together for the whole round

Break off enough to feed through remaining 10 stitches.   Turn inside out and pull yarn so the top comes nicely together.   Work in remaining yarn threads.

Ribbing measures 16 inches around;  stocking stitch at ribbing 19 inches around.   The top of the  crown to end of ribbing measures 9 inches.

Torque

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Tracing Techniques

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October 1, 2015

Thankful for a beautiful summer’s day in fall!

Category Painting

Acrylic paint on 9″ X 12″ water colour paper.

Final thoughts: This was actually traced from a box.  Tracing is a very useful tool – used to get the image one wants to paint onto your canvas.  There are three ways to trace, using a light box, using tracing paper or using the grid method.

A light box is a box with a transparent top and a light inside, which allows dark lines to show through for easy tracing.

Tracing paper allows you to trace the image – than coat the back of the tracing paper with graphite and lightly trace the outline onto your canvas.

Using the grid method – draw grid lines onto a photocopy of what you want to paint.  Draw corresponding grid over your canvas, this allows you to draw what you see in each square.

I used tracing paper to get the image for this painting.

Beacon Tate

Light of the silvery moon

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September 30 2015

Thankful for visits from my  daughter!

Changes made

Revised
Revised

I changed the windows.   That’s the problem if I keep looking at a painting I always find something to change.

Category Painting
By the light of the Silvery Moon.
By the light of the Silvery Moon.

As you know I paint everyday, but I feel these daily paintings are more like sketches made with paint. This is my second official painting, made with mixed medium on vellum Bristol 14″ x 17″ 100 lb. paper. I’m calling it “Light of the Silvery Moon” created September 30, 2015.  I took the idea from a magazine. First I painted Out on the Town and posted it on my blog. I learned from that experience. I pencilled and painted with acrylic paint.

Beacon Tate