Fiber card and Website of the Day

Today's fabric postcard was inspired by art nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha. I love art nouveau. If you're looking for inspiration or are in need of a mental vacation, why not make a virtual visit to a museum online? You can even take your cup of coffee with you! A museum I'm particularly fond of is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I grew up in L.A. and have many of fond memories of my visits to LACMA. Well, call me homesick, but I went back to their website today and remembered just what a good site this is for viewing art online. Paste their url in your browser: http://collectionsonline/lacma.org -They have over half their collection online for your viewing pleasure: 58,507 artworks to date! Visit the Costume & Textiles section where you can browse by Techinique (i.e. needlework), and check out the "Storeroom Treasures" section. Wherever you end up wandering on this site, I hope you'll find something there to inspire YOUR next piece of art.
I found a new paint to try out on this postcard by the way. I say "try out" because it wasn't exactly fabric paint, but the results were very pearly and pretty. I used a little Pentel Poster Color in Pearl Silver. It looks like this is made in Japan. Anyway, on the bottle it says "for use on porous surfaces" so I figured that fabric was fair game :o) I don't know if you can find Sennelier fabric paints wherever you are, my dear reader, but I just remembered that they have a product called Texticolor that also comes in iridescent colors like the Silver White just found in my paint box.These are really good and they come in well over 40 splendid colors.
I didn't mean for today's post to be so long! I'll shut up now, so that you can get your coffee and nibbles on and go to the art museum...