Carol Wiebe

This is the “sample” I am creating for my Open Book workshop. Triptych So Far It is a triptych, painted, collaged and now ready to accept found objects, more paint, text, and whatever else I decide it needs. I photographed it out on the street in front of my house, with all the beautiful texture of the road and shadows of trees creating lines across it. I like that as much as my triptych! #CWWOL20120509 #openbook #sample #triptych

Join me for my class at the Wellington County Museum ~ July 23-27, 2012 ~ which I titled Open Book for the Altered Ego. Artists are altering everything else these days, so why not the ego? This altered ego will encompass all those qualities which we want to express, but must deal with our egos (who love to tell us what we can’t do) first. We will actually create our own shaped book canvases, and use extreme texture with found  and created objects, words, paint, clay, and what

I have some paper quilts in Katie Pasquini Masopust’s new book, Inspirations in Design for the Creative Quilter. Inspirations in Design for the Creative Quilter I took a class from Katie PM in 2009, where she challenged me to add 2 more works to a piece I created there and produce a triptych. I did so, and the triptych made the cut for her book. Pelvic Doorway is a paper quilt. I followed Katie’s designing methods for the first quilt, which were great fun and produced fabulou