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RE: Meeting My Mentor, the Early Years Part 1
Oh wow! How could Bev not be anything but a great source of inspiration?!
I think i just stared at that 4th and 5th photo you posted for well over 3 minutes each! My attraction to this kind of art is equal to that of a magnet.
Where does she get her inspiration from? (the patterns look Mexican/Mayan?) Does she choose colors randomly? Does she have an overall vision of what she wants to create or does she just casually add new elements as time goes by? How long did it take her to fully complete her house?
Love love love this story Ruth, and the photos to illustrate. I hope i get to meet you both one day.
Ah yes, of course you would completely love this house! I should have dedicated this post to you :-)).
Bev has a fantastic eye for design and is very precise in some ways while loose in others as you can see. All of the tile she used initially was donated by neighbors, so for the front of the house, she designed according to the colors people brought. And also, the front was a bit random since she started with just a border and then continued bit by bit without a real plan. A turning point from figuring it out as she went along to actually making a design happened when a neighbor brought that sort of burnt-orange color that's used quite a bit on the front. While she didn't love the color, the guy had a lot of it so it motivated her to design a way to use the color integrated with other colors she had on hand and liked better. By the time she got to the side of the house, she had a general sense of the imagery she wanted to use and designed before tiling using a mix of donated tile and bought seconds from a local tile factory. Most of those are closed now unfortunately. The back of the house she also pre-designed and the colors were worked out according to what she had with a few supplemental colors purchased again from the tile factory 2nds warehouse. Actually searching through these 2nds was a really fun experience too! 2000 Square feet of boxes of tile on the floor and we'd just walk through and fall in love with certain boxes.
You'd love the rest of her work too, she's really talented!!