Embroidered Collage

As my mother and I were looking up at this communications satellite she commented that it looked like something I would do in my art, which was just what I'd been thinking.  My husband had brought the nice camera and took some pictures for me.  I can imagine how the forms would turn into textures in my work.

The entire visit to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was visually stunning.  It is housed in an airline hanger just off of Dulles airport, so you walk into this huge open space filled with planes of all sizes and right in front of you is a large sleek black spy plane, just beyond which you can catch a glimpse of white and black of the space shuttle Enterprise in the side hanger.  The entire place is well-laid out so you can walk among the planes on the ground or take stairs or elevator up to an elevated walkway where you can look down on some planes or else straight on at the ones that are suspended in the air.

I'd like to go back and sketch someday.  I would probably spend the most time with the engines.  There are a couple rows of cleaned and gleaming machinery that powered a variety of planes and they have such interesting patterns formed by the necessity of their functions.  My husband took a few pictures and this is my favorite.