tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12851903694829723122024-03-05T19:02:18.955-06:00Cindy LindgrenCindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13445932449652223794noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285190369482972312.post-54010472196303818902018-03-26T09:07:00.001-05:002018-03-26T09:07:39.536-05:00Taliesin House Illustration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Taliesin was Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin home. It sits into the hill and has a glorious view over the valley. The catwalk out from the living room is a spectacular feature. I've been on the tour three times and learn or see something new each visit. Last time, I had to photograph it from the tour bus window for my reference and complete details with additional photo reference from the Taliesin Preservation staff.<br />
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You can see the glare from the tour bus window in my photo. The tour doesn't include walking down in front of the building so this was my only opportunity to take pictures and get the angle I wanted. I tamed the wild bushes in front to groups of shrubs and played up some of the day lilies and flowering shrubs in bloom. Other photos offered details of the shadow areas and finally feedback from the staff at Taliesin Bookstore helped shape the illustration.<br />
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This was the pencil I sent before adding color to the final art. I kept similar palettes between Taliesin and the Courtyard art so they would group together as a pair. It was a thrilling challenge to work on! Final cards and prints will be available at the Taliesin Visitor Center this Spring and also online. I will sell signed prints of Taliesin and the Courtyard in my<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/CindyLindgren" target="_blank"><span style="color: #20124d;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">Etsy</span> </a>shop and will donate 25% back to Taliesin Preservation so they can maintain these historic landmarks for future generations.</div>
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I had another great opportunity to work with the Taliesin Foundation in Spring Green, Wisconsin on a new art piece. The Bookstore Manager asked me to create an illustration of the Taliesin Courtyard for the Gift Shop. So last June, my husband and I signed up for a tour and I took several photos at different spots to get inspiration for the art.<br />
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It was a mid June day, so not a lot of flowers were in bloom.It was in between the Spring and summer stock. I do have a general knowledge of midwest perennials, so I could tell by the leaves what would be blooming later in summer. Later on when I started the illustration, I added several I saw in other photos online, including the purple Clematis on the trellis.<br />
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I think Frank Lloyd Wright's trellis design are distinctive of his style and worth featuring in the art.<br />
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The sculptures placed around the courtyard were also on my list to include.</div>
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This was the Courtyard view from his bedroom window. I liked the reflecting pool a lot.</div>
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I loved the graceful line work in this sculpture near the end of our tour.</div>
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Here's what my pencil drawing looked like before I scanned it into the computer. </div>
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The final illustration! It will be sold at the Taliesin Bookstore as both prints and cards. I will be selling fine art versions in my Etsy Shop and donating 25% of the proceeds to Taliesin Preservation for continuing upkeep of this historic Frank Lloyd Wright space.</div>
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13445932449652223794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285190369482972312.post-52427140869701075102018-01-18T10:03:00.000-06:002018-01-18T10:03:30.941-06:00Celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last year marked Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday and FLWright locations around the country celebrated with special events to mark his birthday. It was special for me because I worked with the Taliesin Bookstore coordinator in Spring Green, Wisconsin to create four illustrations of landmarks found at his Wisconsin home. They include the Hillside Assembly Hall, Midway Barn, Romeo & Juliet Windmill and the Visitor Center.<br />
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I used a combination of photos I took during tours of these places and photos provided by the gift shop to create my drawings. The Bookstore coordinator and members of a board helped by reviewing my art to make sure it translated properly. Then I had them printed into note cards and unsigned prints for their gift shop. Taliesin sells the note cards<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/shop/office/stationery" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span> and the art prints <a href="http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/shop/prints" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. These will be sold exclusively thru them.<br />
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I will continue to offer signed prints of each of these thru my<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/CindyLindgren" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">Etsy</span></a> shop and art shows. I will be donating 25% of the proceeds to <a href="http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/about-us" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Taliesin Preservation</span></a> so they can continue their work saving these great structures.<br />
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The gift shop manager wants me to work on two more images. This time it is the main house and the courtyard.I traveled back down to photograph it while the flowers were in bloom and am working on the drawings this month. Watch for their release in Spring.<br />
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It's been an honor and a dream come true for me to work on these illustrations with the Taliesin team.</div>
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It's like Christmas when I get to see projects stitched using my latest Janome designs!</div>
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What are some good uses of my new embroidery designs for Janome? Well, check out these two tea towel designs by Wendy Jo Miller. She applied my tea design onto a tea towel using her Memorycraft 500e. The final design measures about 4" x5" and is well suited for a heavier fabric like this.<br />
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Wendy also stitched my coffee design onto a matching tea towel. She said the coffee used a lot of thread to complete, creating a very dense area on the final piece. That's why it's helpful for me to see how my designs translate and perhaps improve function in new designs.<br />
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I really love how Wendy added the word "HOME" to my pine cone design. She picked a complimentary font and made it just the right size and color to compliment my art. This is also stitched onto a heavier weight tea towel, but can't you imagine making a pillow out of this design for your home or cabin? The final dimensions are 5.5" x 5". There is flexibility in resizing the design for other applications.</div>
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Look how cool the poppies look stitched onto jeans! Thank you, Wendy, for using your imagination and sewing skills to create these fun sample projects, I can't wait to see more.</div>
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It is so exciting to see my line art embroidered onto fabric! This Janome technology is truly amazing and is masterfully sewn by my friends Sandy and Brandi at<a href="http://www.valleywestsewing.com/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #783f04;">Valley West Sewing Center</span></a> in Bloomington. They surprised me by stitching my latest collection on their Janome Memory Craft 1500 sewing machine and invited me down to take a look.</div>
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It helps me, as a designer, to see how it all translates visually and helps me to provide feedback to Janome on how the templates were for sewing. These designs are all available as apps for sewists to purchase online.<br />
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For the past five years, I've been fortunate to work with Square One Reps at the Minneapolis Mart. They helped me build my wholesale card and art print line from 40 cards to over 200 items now available in my latest catalog. Local owner, Jan Borene and her team of reps, guided me and helped put my work into more than 50 retail shops in Minnesota and Wisconsin. I enjoyed going out to The Minneapolis Mart on Show Days to meet with potential customers where Jan treated me like family.<div>
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At the beginning of the year, Square One was sold to another wholesale rep company called Anne McGilvray & Company based in Dallas, Texas. They welcomed me to their team, helped me transfer my items to their website, and gave me a new booth in their brand new Minneapolis showroom. It was still in progress when I went out for the first show last month. As you can see in the photo, they creatively hung my cards clothes line fashion and prominently displayed my prints, posters and magnets. My name plaque wasn't yet in place. Fortunately, my Square One reps, Judy, Amy, Liz and Sharon, made the transition, too. They are simply the best people to work with. </div>
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Anne McGilvray was in town to meet us during the show and welcome us to her team. She runs a huge retail repping company with showrooms in Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle with many top national wholesale lines, so I feel fortunate to be represented by her team. My work will only be shown in the Minneapolis Showroom but she has additional reps in Iowa and North and South Dakota who will represent my lines, so I expect my customer list to grow. Here's a little bit more about <a href="http://annemcgilvray.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Anne McGilvray and Company</span></a>. </div>
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I put out a new catalog in January for my wholesale customers. It contains new cards, art prints, posters and magnets. I continue to focus on my favorite landmarks and Midwest themes in my work. If you want to carry my work in your shop, you can either contact me or Anne McGilvray & Co. at <a href="mailto:info@annemcgilvray.com"><span style="color: red;">info@annemcgilvray.com</span></a>. The next show is March 10-14th at The Minneapolis Mart located at 10301 Bren Road W. #378, Minnetonka, Minnnesota 55343. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I will miss Jan and Alan and the wonderful time we spent together at Square One. My best to them on their future plans. I plan to grow my wholesale business under the guidance of Anne McGilvray & Company and continue to work with wonderful retail and museum shops in the area.<br /><div>
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It's one of those big life moments when you decide to sell your home of 30 years and downsize. We actually made the decision over a year ago and it has taken this long to call the transition complete. For me, that included moving my home studio after going thru everything and evaluating if it was going to make the move.<br />
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I embraced the change and made it an opportunity to restyle my working space. This new style I have lovingly dubbed "William Morris meets Ikea". I combined simple clean tabletops and bookcases with touches of detailed Arts and Crafts design.<br />
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While driving down 50th Street in Minneapolis, I saw this stained glass window in the Antique shop's store display and knew it was perfect. The shop owner asked if I was 'seriously' considering buying it because it was going to be difficult to retrieve it from the front window wedged between other antique pieces. I assured her I was. It had the simplicity, the design and colors that I loved. I debated where and how I wanted to display it in my new studio space and decided I wanted to see it as the first thing I was when I entered the room. It is flanked by two hand crafted candle sticks I bought at an Arts and Crafts Show in Chicago and my own framed art.</div>
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In contrast, I chose a big drum shade at Ikea to hang over an Ikea table with gray wooden curved legs. The shade has a gorgeous shiny copper interior with slits in it that adds some drama to the space. The framed art was done by a special friend of mine that I brought from my previous space.<br />
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I also kept my card filing system with pull out bins. It's functional and looks good. I splurged and bought a William Morris 5x8' wool rug for the floor. I've always wanted one and found the perfect combination of colors and design online. </div>
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There's one last item to hang. I ordered an extra large poster print of my Frank Lloyd Wright Graycliff house illustration to frame and hang on the last empty wall space.</div>
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It has been a long year of purging and planning to get here. But I really enjoy how it has all come together to be a space that feels like me.</div>
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It still amazes me to see my hummingbird art translated into an embroidery design.I like the thread colors and how even the wing lines are added on top of the wing base.Thanks to my friend Wendy who generously agreed to stitch some samples for me to share with you. Let's take a look and learn more about Whimsy Wendy.<br />
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Here is Wendy and her Janome Memorycraft 500e she used to create the wonderful embroidery samples. She loves her machine and is currently busy with embroidery orders for gifts with personalized towels, totes/bags and pillowcases. She has so many ideas and not enough time to tackle them, but has some open creative days marked on her calendar in bold and underlined to devote to her passion.<br />
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I met Wendy at <span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thelindentreeshop/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;">The Linden Tree</span></a> </span>a few years ago and loved her children's costume tutu's, butterfly wings and princess hats that were sold there. Wendy started her business in 2007 as soon as her girls were in school full-time. She was itching to do something creative. At this point 75% of her work is custom that includes personal embroidery orders and upholstery work such as curtains, box cushions and recovering pillows. The other 25% comes from her<span style="color: #351c75;"> <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/whimsywendy?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Etsy</a></span> shop that includes party decor, children's costumes and home dec.<br />
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Wendy said she could see my designs being used for home interiors.The fact that you can tailor the thread colors to blend into people's spaces gives them a lot of versatility, just like you can when you change personalized colors for fabric orders. She feels the personalization of products and services is so important to people these days. Thank you, Wendy, for bringing my designs to life. Here's Wendy's business links:<br />
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As a visual artist, it helps me see how my work looks in its finished form in order to know how to create future images. This inspires me to design new images for sewists to use on a variety of fun projects. Thanks to <a href="http://janome.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;">Janome</span></a> for these amazing machines.<br />
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13445932449652223794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285190369482972312.post-66067163092580567032016-07-21T11:57:00.000-05:002016-07-21T11:57:24.847-05:00Graycliff Illustration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a huge Frank Lloyd Wright fan, I was thrilled to work with the Graycliff Conservancy on this illustration. It is the summer home sitting on the Lake Erie shore designed for the Darwin Martin family from Buffalo, New York completed in 1931. It was saved from demolition in the late '90's, was renovated and now welcomes thousands of visitors annually.<br />
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I first became aware of the Graycliff Estate when the gift shop manager, Ryan, purchased some of my cards and prints thru Etsy wholesale for the gift shop. I mentioned that I previously illustrated the Park Inn Hotel and Bank by Frank Lloyd Wright in Mason City, Iowa for their gift shop and asked if they'd be interested in cards and prints of Graycliff. The board approved and Ryan took numerous photos for me since I live so far away. Although now I really want to visit!<br />
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The estate is spectacular. My favorite design features the first floor windows that show the lake view from the front of the house thru the back of the house. I added a couple tree trunk silhouettes to try to get the point across. Another unique feature is the use of local limestone that contains iron. Some of the stones in the house and in the pond area have brownish rust streaks to illustrate that.<br />
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Here's my pencil that went thru some tweaks before the color version.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">pencil drawing<br /><br />It was wonderful working with Ryan who advised me thru the project. I just got the cards printed and prints made and sent to the Graycliff Estate gift shop.<br /></td></tr>
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Although I don't own or live in a bungalow, I have a love for them and an interest in the Arts and Crafts Movement. I found like-minded friends when I joined the Twin Cities Bungalow Club a few years ago. The Club just celebrated their 20th year Anniversary and the board asked me to create a special gift for their members. This resulted in a unique four pack of cards, each highlighting a bungalow style found locally and a special art print incorporating the houses into a Minneapolis and St. Paul skyline.<br />
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I worked with Tim Counts, club president, and Gail Tischler, board member, to draw the houses and create appropriate color palettes. Some of the reference they provided required some revised drawing since some homeowners had updated and removed original bungalow details from the home.<br />
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Here's one of my original pencil sketches:<br />
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The Bungalow board reviewed all the pencils and gave direction for revisions in keeping with bungalow details. Once the pencils were approved, I scanned my drawings into the computer, redrew the lines and added color to the shapes.<br />
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I kept the grass, sky and tree colors the same in all four illustrations so they would look like a matched set and work together in a combined print.<br />
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Here's each individual card with the white envelope:<br />
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Then I created an illustration incorporating all four bungalows into a print with a Minneapolis and St. Paul skyline. Artistic license is always taken to make the impossible look believable.<br />
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The cards and prints were distributed to the more than 400 members last month and I'm told were well received. I enjoyed learning more about bungalows during the whole process and was happy to create this for The Twin Cities Bungalow Club. If you are interested in joining the Club, here's a <a href="http://bungalowclub.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">link </span></a>to their website for more info. <br />
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Congratulations to the club on their 20th Anniversary!<br />
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13445932449652223794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285190369482972312.post-32722167512237272872016-05-19T09:33:00.000-05:002016-05-19T09:33:58.272-05:00My Janome Embroidery Designs<br />
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Can you believe this was stitched on a sewing machine? I can't believe it either, but I watched it happen. Sandy at <a href="http://valleywestsewing.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Valley West Sewing Center</span></a> in Bloomington, Minnesota took me thru the steps of selecting my art file online, uploading it to the Janome Memory Craft 1500 sewing machine and watching it stitch out in layers.<br />
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It's part of my new license adventure with Janome. Thirty of my designs are in the Backyard Bliss Collection available as apps for sewists to purchase and unleash their creativity. Besides recreating my color palette, this app has the flexibility to change size and change colors! But I'm getting ahead of myself. Today let's follow Sandy thru the steps of creating my Poinsettia design on a dinner napkin.<br />
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Thank you to Sandy at Valley West Sewing Center for letting me share this process with you! We look forward to sharing more projects together.<br /><br />
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Even if you didn't attend the University of Minnesota, you've probably heard of Coffman Union. It's the hub for student activity and is also home to the University Bookstore. I've been fortunate to work with the manager and create new cards for the Bookstore gift shop. The first one was Northrop which established the look with a Minnesota maroon and gold border, and Coffman is my second illustration. After walking back and forth in front of the building trying to see which angle worked best, I decided upon this view...with a few alterations. </div>
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I took artistic license and removed the railing blocking the view and added red and gold flowers along the sidewalk. Previous online photos showed they had planted them in past years. I also added the Minneapolis skyline on the right side, closer and larger than it is in reality, but it enhanced the meaning and composition of the card.</div>
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After scanning my pencil drawing, I add the color digitally using saved palettes from the Northrop illustration so they relate by colors in a series.Everything came together well, even the simplified flower bed. Afterwards, I get a final ok from the Gift shop Manager before creating cards and prints. </div>
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They are available at the University Bookstore as well as my Etsy shop. </div>
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Next up is The Mondale Law Building for this Spring.</div>
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Last summer I traveled to Madison, the Capitol of Wisconsin, to take photos for a new illustration.Here's a view of the Capitol from Monona Terrace. It was a beautiful summer day in June, as compared to today in January when it's zero degrees and I'm inside writing about my trip. That day my sister and I had lunch on the top of the Monona Terrace overlooking the lake prior to taking a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's designed building.<br />
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Here's a model of Monona Terrace we saw on the tour. It makes a beautiful centerpiece to the Madison skyline. The trouble is it faces Lake Monona and I couldn't go out in a boat to take my own reference, so I had to rely on several online images from which to assemble my skyline.<br />
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I chose to enlarge the Capitol in the background to give it more dominance and simplified the surrounding buildings. This is my rough pencil drawing of the illustration.</div>
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The color palette is a lot of blues with a punch of turquoise in the windows that reflect in the water. The Capitol was very difficult to simplify because it has tons of beautiful detail. It deserves its own illustration! After I added color, I sent it to the Monona Terrace gift shop manager, who I met that summer day, to review for accuracy. She suggested a couple changes to some buildings which I was happy to do.</div>
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Here's the final illustration of the Madison skyline in color. It is available as a card and art print in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/CindyLindgren" target="_blank">Etsy </a>Shop and also available for wholesale. Watch for it around Madison gift shops. I have an order going out this week already! </div>
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I'm still working on card designs from my research and reference trip thru Wisconsin in June. In Madison, I visited the gift shop manager at Olbrich Gardens who is interested in my cards and in a custom card of their gardens. My experience with Como Conservatory in St. Paul, led me to suggest the garden where people get married. People love to have a card or print illustrating that special place.<br />
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At Olbrich, the weddings occur at the Events Garden. I took several pictures for reference. The purple flowers, including Wisteria, were gorgeous. Some weren't in bloom yet, but I could illustrate them in full bloom in my final art.<br />
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The setting was very balanced with the gardens mirroring each other either side of the path. The background was the most challenging with the large amounts of green, but the brown wooden pergola created a nice central structure to build upon.<br />
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Here's the final illustration of the Event Garden with the purple and white flowers, many round bushes and the stone pathway that leads to the outdoor altar under the pergola. I hope couples will enjoy my version of this beautiful space where they got married.<br />
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Following my visit to Appleton, Wisconsin last June and my meeting with local groups headed by Kathy Meyer, it was time to go home and create a custom fabric design. Armed with notes from our meeting with business and city marketing leaders, and a lot of reference pictures, including the Lawrence University Memorial Chapel shown above, I was ready to pull it all together.</div>
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I made quick sketches of the local landmarks on tracing paper, cut them out, moved them around, scaled them up and down until it started to create a composition. This was going to be sold as individual panels and yardage, so I kept the elements contained within the borders of my square rather than bleeding off. The design included the Children's Museum, Houdini Plaza, Building 222, Hearthstone, the Fox River, Mill buildings, water fountain at City Park, the wind sculpture on College Avenue, and references to recreational activities such as boating, jogging, biking and kayaking. There are also icons representing the Flag parade, Mile of Music Festival, Octoberfest and Farm Market. I shared a final pencil drawing with the group and just a couple minor adjustments later, I scanned my drawing and started outlining all the icons to fill them with color. The group requested a turquoise/lime color way like my City of Lakes. That works well because they can use the wave coordinate with their City fabric using the same colors. The other color way is more Fall colors with tans, reds and oranges.</div>
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I sent the files to Modern Yardage for a strike off of each and liked how they turned out. Next I designed a coordinating text panel using words that describe the city and local events.</div>
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The group chose the second version of type with the waves between words and Appleton in the same script font as the main panel. Then I approve final files of the printed strike offs from Modern Yardage and jpgs of the art is posted on the Modern Yardage website and are ready for purchase.</div>
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Here's a <a href="http://www.modernyardage.com/shop/product/view/recent/" target="_blank">link </a>to where you can purchase the Appleton fabrics at Modern Yardage. Kathy Meyer has ordered fabric and within a day, has sewn herself a beautiful top in voile! I am excited to see what the Appleton Quilt Guild will create out of their own custom fabric. Local quilt shops can order panels to sell in their shops for customers,too. It was so much fun to create a custom design thru Modern Yardage for Appleton. It's a great niche market. Next on to Watkins Glen and their custom fabric design.</div>
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Yes, I'm still on the road. This time my sister and I visit <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/" target="_blank">Taliesin</a> </span>in Wisconsin; Frank Lloyd Wright's home and Architecture School. The two hour tour goes by quick as you try to memorize the interiors since no pictures are allowed. Here's a few of my favorite spots around the school, his home and the gardens we saw.<br />
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It's always been my dream to illustrate Frank Lloyd Wright's homes, so my Wisconsin retail rep has been helping me meet with Taliesin's gift shop manager on this trip. I left her with samples of my Historic Park Inn card, box set and art print to share with her superiors. You have to be approved and have permission to illustrate and sell cards of his properties and his trade marked name. So she will get back to me with their decision. I hope one day my cards will be sold in this gift shop that I so admire.</div>
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Next we travel down the road for lunch at <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://springgreengeneralstore.com/" target="_blank">The Spring Green General Store and Cafe</a> . </span>Karin purchases my cards for her shop, so I wanted to stop in to visit and try out their cafe. The pizza and salad was great! She has a wonderful selection of products and clothes, too. They have a variety of events going on all year.</div>
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Then one last stop in Lanesboro, Minnesota to visit a friend interning at The <a href="http://lanesboroarts.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lanesboro Arts Gallery</span></a>. I enjoyed looking at the talented artists' work and getting to know more about it. What a charming busy town! It happened to have an art fair in the park that day on Father's day so the stop was even more fun. </div>
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Yep, that's in Olbrich Gardens.Stunning, isn't it? It's the Thai Pavilion that shines bright gold in the lush landscape. It was a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from the Thai Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association. We visited it on a beautiful June afternoon on my road trip thru Wisconsin visiting clients and gift shops. Here are a few more pictures of the details and gardens around it. It's worth a visit next time you're in Madison. Here's a <a href="http://www.olbrich.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;">link</span></a>.<br />
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I arranged to meet the gift shop manager and discuss creating and illustrating a card of their garden. My cards for The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory in St. Paul have done well; one reason is because couples get married there. People like art of the gardens or places they got married in a way that's different from photography. Couples can get married at Olbrich, too, so I chose that area in the garden for my first illustration. It takes place in the Event Garden.</div>
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The pergola backdrop is covered in Wisteria and surrounded by pots of purple annuals with manicured shrubs. In fact, a gardener was pruning them the day we were there. There's a space for chairs on either side of the walkway for guests. (I looked up 'weddings at Olbrich' online and saw some actual wedding photos and how the area was set up.) </div>
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As an illustrator, I can play up the flowers and colors to make this a great card image for them. I can't wait to start drawing! </div>
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My road trip continues to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin next.</div>
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This inscription says it all. Madison, Wisconsin made Frank Lloyd Wright rework his plans for <a href="http://mononaterrace.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Monona Terrace</span> </a>several times between 1938 until until his death in 1959 and then waited until the 90's to build it. It was on my Frank Lloyd Wright list to tour and fortunately, my sister Cathy drove over from Iowa to join me. We've toured many of Wright's buildings together over the last 10 years.<br />
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The best view is from the middle of Lake Monona, so you'll have to settle for this model view instead. It has a circular theme through out the exterior and interior design that I haven't seen in previous buildings. It's a community and convention center that opened in 1997.<br />
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These are just a few highlights from our tour with our very knowledgable guide. You can always tell when a guide is a big Frank Lloyd Wright fan and speaks passionately about the building. These are some interior shots of auditorium, trade show spaces, dining and event rooms.</div>
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My sister and I really liked these hanging lights. They looked rather art deco. The guide said they look even better when the other lights are low and these are brighter.<br />
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The view from inside towards Lake Monona.<br />
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The carpets designs captured the building theme as well.<br />
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This view made me think of the Guggenheim Museum with it's circular style.</div>
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Then it's off to the Gift Shop to talk to the manager and do some shopping....I mean 'research'.</div>
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I shared my card and print designs with her and we decided to do a view of Monona Terrace with some other Madison buildings in the skyline. I can't wait to start drawing and collaborate with her on my views of this wonderful building. </div>
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I was charmed by Appleton's Quilt Guild president, Kathy Meyer, last winter on her visit here to Minneapolis. She loved my <a href="http://www.modernyardage.com/shop/category/shop-by-category/city-of-lakes-collection-by-cindy-lindgr/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Minneapolis City of Lakes</span></a> fabric collection for <a href="http://www.modernyardage.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Modern Yardage</span></a> and told me how Appleton quilters would love to have their city landmarks on fabric. They have a big group of 137 enthusiast members and supportive city leaders, all very proud of their hometown. Modern Yardage has the ability to print niche fabric themes and I was ready to design for a new city.<br />
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So I planned a road trip thru Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, starting with Appleton.<br />
Kathy pulled together a group of women to meet with me at The Blue Emporium gallery to talk. I shared my Minneapolis fabric collection with them and we discussed what landmarks and images I should photograph and then draw for Appleton.<br />
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A few of us gathered at Kathy's home before the guild meeting that evening and we enjoyed dinner and these cookies Kathy pressed using an empty thread spool. Very creative!</div>
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This photo shows just part of the large gathering that night, despite the flooded streets just a couple hours earlier. I'd estimate 80 members attended, brought projects to share and to listen to the guest speaker, Jacquie Gering. </div>
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Wow! She was an amazing quilter, designer, speaker and teacher. I adored her designs and thoroughly enjoyed her talk. Here's a<span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">link</span></a></span> to her blog to learn more about this talented woman and her Tallgrass Prairie Studio. </div>
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I met members during break and after the meeting to show them samples of my work and get ideas for Appleton fabric designs. They were all excited to hear about the project and want to know as soon as it's available. </div>
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If you're in textile design then you've heard of Pattern Observer. I had the good fortune of talking with my friend, Jamie Kalvestran, at International Quilt Market as she interviewed some of the designers there. Everyone has a different story of how they made it into the Fabric World.<br />
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As a newbie, Quilt Market was overwhelming in the sense of scale and diversity. It is the place where quilt shop owners from around the world meet manufacturers in the industry all in one place for three days. It runs the gammet of fabric, books, patterns, needlework, notions, embroidery, sewing machines, thread, wool and crafts in 27 aisles lined with booths. We were in row 25 between Penguin & Fish selling embroidery kits (and based in Minneapolis) and Pieces From My Heart fabric designs.<br />
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We had a steady stream of visitors to our booth inquiring, buying and placing orders for quilt labels. They loved the colors, variety and the option to customize and buy as few or as many as they wanted. It gave me the chance to see what designs they liked best and how I'd design them differently in the future.<br />
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This was actually the first time I met April, the owner of Modern Yardage and her husband Jay since working with their company for over two years. It also gave Melissa from The Linden Tree the chance to meet them, too, since she supports and purchases my fabric for her shop. Melissa and other friends sewed many wonderful items for me out of my fabric. A special thank you to Carole who made the lovely Poppy Hop purse for me. I love wearing it and admire the craftsmanship of her work.<br />
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The City of Lakes panels really resonated with customers, along with Modern Yardage's other panels for Milwaukee, Vancouver, Austin and Pittsburgh. But they'd ask...what about Seattle? Alaska? Colorado? Atlanta? We will continue to expand out designs and make them available. I made a lot of great contacts so I can collaborate on what imagery they'd like to see their city represented by and also pass along information to our other designers. <br />
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April made a large cheater quilt panel out Modern Yardage labels and added funny custom names to them. It made for a fun conversation piece but also showed that they can add custom names to quilt labels, too. Here's a couple up close.<br />
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Fab fabric everywhere! Minneapolis hosted the International Quilt Market last weekend and I got to experience it all. Thanks to Modern Yardage who decided to exhibit there and concentrate on selling our quilt labels and panels at wholesale to retail shop owners. I've done art shows with booths and trade shows in New York, but this one was very unique. Modern Yardage owner, April, had been to several in the past and worked with me via email for a few months on creating the look of the wall panels, what to use for props and sewn samples. While she was busy printing up quilt labels, I was upholstering my dining room chairs with them. While she was making quilt label bunting and a creative quilt label quilt, I was draping quilt label sample packs over my art show frame. There are 13 designers with Modern Yardage and many of them design quilt labels and panels and kits that were shown in the booth.<br />
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It all came together on move-in day with a few adjustments once everything was in the booth. My side had sewn projects using my panel designs from The City of Lakes, Poppy Hop and Amelia Harper Collections thanks to my many talented friends who can sew and embroidery.<br />
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That night was Sample Spree where customers wait in line to be the first ones in to purchase items directly from the companies. Anticipation was high for both attendees and sellers. The doors open and customers rush to their favorite table first for the best selection. We had a table ready with our packs of quilt labels and a banner menu of what was inside the packages. We kept extra packets under the table to replenish as they sold.<br />
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Here's another Minneapolis exhibitor, my friend Alyssa of Penguin & Fish and her embroidery kits, sample products, books and fabric samples. I really like her style.<br />
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Many cities are identified by their skylines in art, but to me Minneapolis is defined by its lakes. They are the social network that is tied together with paths for walkers, bikers, skateboarders and runners where they can fish, sail, kayak, eat at restaurants and listen to music. The lakes are active in winter, too with x-country skiers, ice fisherman, skaters and fat tire bikers.<br />
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My City of Lakes fabric collection for Modern Yardage shares my experience of living near the lakes in Minneapolis. The main fabric design depicts all the activities and includes Minne the Sea Monster who shows up in a different lake each summer.Lake Harriet bandshell is alive with music all summer long. Lake Nokomis has a Monarch butterfly garden and celebration each year, while Calhoun and Isles is a hub for boats, kayaks and other water activities as well as offering great food at the restaurant there. My coordinating prints have the names of the lakes and a tree and wave pattern.<br />
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My collection also includes panels celebrating biking, x country skiing and the Uptown area by Calhoun and Isles. The theatre marquee defines the popular Uptown area located south of downtown.<br />
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We all know that winter is long in Minneapolis and the best way to make the most of it is to find something we enjoy doing outside. I chose to highlight x cross country skiers because of the popular Loppet and Luminary Loppet thousands enjoy each February. The Lake names print works with that print as well as the snowflake pattern I developed.<br />
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Modern Yardage offers these prints in 3 different scales and in 4 different color ways to give you maximum potential for all sorts of sewing projects you can dream up! It's available online<a href="http://www.modernyardage.com/shop/category/shop-by-category/city-of-lakes-collection-by-cindy-lindgr/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">here</span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">.</span> I have been working with the <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><a href="http://www.thelindentreeshop.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Linden Tree</span></a> </span>these past few months preparing for a local launch in my neighborhood with projects and fabric from the Marine color way for purchase. I am so excited to offer this special collection honoring this special city. <br />
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Has this happened to you? I grew up not far from Brucemore in Cedar Rapids, Iowa but it was just last Fall that I took a trip from Minneapolis down to visit it for the first time. I appreciate it now more than I did growing up when history and architecture weren't as interesting to me.<br />
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It started as an inquiry from the Gift Shop Manager, Kaycie, asking if I'd be interested in illustrating the mansion for a card for them. I take into account if I like the subject matter, if it's of interest to customers, a worthy historic and supported site and if I can take my own pictures for reference. Yes, on all fronts and I went over with my Mom for a tour of the estate and house last October.<br />
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Brucemore is a 26 acre estate containing a 19th century mansion that 3 different families called home. You can learn more about these families and the history of Brucemore on their site <a href="http://www.brucemore.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">here</span></a>.<br />
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Kaycie met us and gave us a walking tour of the grounds past the carriage house, which is where the Visitor Center and Gift Shop are located, as well as the gardens, green house, outdoor theatre, pond, book bindery, servant homes and around the front of the home that has a massive yard facing one of the main streets in Cedar Rapids. Here are a few of my pictures from that day:<br />
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My focus was on the front of the house where I photographed sections and details I needed for my illustration.<br />
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I worked on my drawing over the winter and sent Kaycie a pencil of Brucemore done to a card scale back in January. It was challenging to simplify detail but leave enough to make it look right. Plus, there's always distortion with cameras, so it took many glances back over pictures to piece it all together.<br />
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After getting approval, I scanned my pencil drawing and added color in layers on my computer, starting with the background sky and moving forward to the house, front of house, and front lawn until it all came together like this:<br />
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The art has been approved and will soon be available in their gift shop. It was a fun and challenging project that has great meaning to me now. Thank you, Kaycie!<br />
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The inside of the house is wonderful, too! There's a plaster mural by a young Grant Wood in the sleeping porch. Go take a tour if you are in the Eastern Iowa area. Check out the list of other fun events happening there on their website.Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13445932449652223794noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1285190369482972312.post-23118419962777428252015-02-23T09:02:00.000-06:002015-02-23T09:02:19.386-06:00Boot Buoys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What are these? Something everyone needs! Melinda Pfohl created these using my City of Lakes fabric to hold your boots upright in your closet. Ingenious!<br />
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My boots are always slumped like this and awkwardly stored. These Boot Buoys slip into your boots and hold the upright.<br />
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Melinda told me people will buy them as a gift for a friend and they like it so much, they buy them for their friends and so on and so on. Such a smart design and they are light as a feather.</div>
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I liked the gray ribbon trim that matched my fabric. The sewing and design is very professional and beautifully packaged. I love the logo. She has made these in other colors as well. You may contact Melinda to get a pair for yourself or for your friend at pfohl.melinda@gmail.com. I enjoyed meeting her and seeing how she is using my City of Lakes lake names fabric from <a href="http://www.modernyardage.com/shop/category/shop-by-category/city-of-lakes-collection-by-cindy-lindgr/" target="_blank">Modern Yardage</a>.</div>
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