{"id":4489,"date":"2018-08-28T11:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2018-08-28T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T16:24:28","slug":"influences-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"Influences Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I said the other day, I&#8217;m working on a re-design of my website, though it is more correct to say that the technical work is being done by the wonderful team at <em><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloderworks.com\">Gloderworks<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>who built this now 10 y.o. website. The current background is based on <em>Timetracks\u00a01,<\/em>\u00a0which began the Tracks series, and led to some new thinking about my art. It reflects where I was then, just as did my first (19 years ago) and subsequent sites. I still have some more rewriting to do, and choices to make on what I really want the website to convey.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at other textile artists&#8217; websites and blog pages in many different styles. There are lots of combinations of bio, cv, galleries, exhibition news, publications, class schedules, blogs, archives and most have a contact page. They range from very formal to madly, crazily, informal.\u00a0 Some have plain white, black or other colour backgrounds.\u00a0 Others have some kind of texture, subtle or bold, and some are so lively and full of visual stimuli that it&#8217;s hard to see the main focal point.\u00a0 \u00a0It might be an age thing, but I&#8217;m looking for something uncluttered, almost &#8216;minimalist&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I spent much time yesterday looking at quilted works and some landscape pics in my photo files. I manipulated some of them in fairly faint pencil sketch mode so they are not intrusive, and compiled a file of about 15 possibles plus several hand drawn liney things that I&#8217;m thinking over.\u00a0 However, thinking I was a bit clever, saving these as very faint B\/W pencil sketches when I put some of these up to show you, they looked just\u00a0<em>too severely washed out<\/em> of colour, and rather boring, so I&#8217;ve just left a couple for the record, and it looks like an afternoon of a fresh round of manipulate+saves coming up!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=4490\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4490\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4490\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=4490\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-1-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,175\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ebb \\u0026amp; Flow 28&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1520602374&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Ebb \\u0026amp; Flow 28&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ebb &amp;amp; Flow 28\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ebb &amp;amp; Flow 28&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-1-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C105&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-1-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full 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data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-2-blog.jpg?fit=419%2C274&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4491 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-2-blog.jpg?resize=419%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-2-blog.jpg?w=419&amp;ssl=1 419w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-2-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=4498\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4498\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4498\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=4498\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-4-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,332\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1330978406&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"background ideas 4 blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-4-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-4-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4498 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-4-blog.jpg?resize=500%2C332&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-4-blog.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/background-ideas-4-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s time for some lunch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I said the 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The current background is based on Timetracks\u00a01,\u00a0which began the Tracks series, and led to some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-1ap","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4500,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}