Having some fun making accordion sketchbooks. Here I am incorporating several things that I have seen over the week into one spread: spiderwebs ( it got mild!), robins, starlings, beginnings of snowdrops and some Mycena spp. On the reverse are: Osoberry budding out, Mr. Quail who sported a noteworthy double plume and fog…. lots of fog this week, through the forest.
Winter Birch
watercolour, pastels, tinted paper
Garden Sketch
A pen and watercolour sketch.
Leisure with no Textbooks.
A gorgeous afternoon in my friend’s garden. Leisurely drawing a pot of begonias with a cup of coffee, cheese and apple slices. Nothing to do but perhaps drift down to the bookstore later for a browse in the fiction section. Novelty. It won’t always be like this, but I will take these moments of leisure where and when I can.
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New things emerging.
Always love the friendly robin… and the red-breasted nuthatch.
Two of my fave feathered friends.
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Kinglet in the treetops.
Feathered Friends
Autumn
The Last of the Golden Leaves...
The weeping birch always looks spectacular in November. The last of the gold shimmer until next year.
Embracing the Daily Art Journal
With little time for creative activities, a cheap journal has become my friend. Sometimes used for reminders of where I am in terms of my thoughts and emotions and sometimes used for exploring colour and mark-making, putting something into a journal has become a quick way to relieve some stress and relieve the monotony of reading textbooks.
Paper Forests
I've been messing with the mulberry paper tree sketches. Playing with the possibilities of collage. Not exactly sure where it is going. A sun in gold iridescent ink is need of course.
The gold pigment settles out of the medium to the bottom. I always like how it looks. The effect on paper is actually more subtle.
I'm liking the layered look of the trees. It gives the feeling of spaces between things. The relationship of distances between and where we are in that. Air and space is not empty, but filled with an incredible amount of things whizzing in-between, we are just one of these forms, as are trees and rocks and birds and mountains...but all those in-between spaces... filled with potential and surprises.
I'm liking the stitching as well. Things being pulled back together. The thread is an iridescent blue. I wanted bronze or copper but alas, the sewing box is pretty empty of such things. So blue it is. We shall see how things progress with this piece. I am curious as to where next.