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"General", 2004, 15" x 20" hooked area
Teacher: Diane Phillips

Diane is well known for her faces and she sure inspired our class at Sauder Village in 2004.  Most of us abandoned our planned project and struck off in new directions after seeing Diane's work. 

If you have a chance to be in one of Diane's classes, do not pass up the opportunity.   She made hooking faces seem easy.  Everyone in that class had an incredible face (or more) hooked by the end of the four days.

I chose to hook a picture of my husband.  We had a wedding photo taken at Cedar Point many years ago along the Frontier Trail.  During the class Diane had mentioned that one way to understand a method was to copy a master's painting.  I was carrying around a copy of a painting by Andre Derain called Portrait of Henri Matisse.  If you search the internet with the names above you should find the image - it's the one with a pipe.

Diane inspired me to hook David, my husband, using the colors in the Derain painting.  I got a bit more colorful in the background, but had great fun.