Let's have a look...
Is it really?
Let's take a closer look...
There is that strip of blue...
How I missed you all these long months and now here you are!
Hope you all have a good weekend!
Wool with you,
Lene
Friday, May 11, 2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Greetings from Woollus
So
the sun is up in the sky - for just a little while I believe - and even though my heart rejoices of this, I
have started to have doubts of whether the summer will ever come up here. It
seems like the rest of you live on Tellus and we, poor beggars, up here live on
a different planet ... Woollus? We had some new snow last Sunday, and with snow
I mean that we got almost 5 inches. Now I have reached the point, where I
refuse to talk, think or take pictures of the ever present snow.
Or
so I thought when I today pulled out my camera to take few pictures of Tina and
Ruusu playing outside my window.... But there you have it, let it be the last
time before next fall. I just read from somewhere that during the past 60
years, when records have been kept, there has never been so much snow in May up
here.
Flower
Crazy workshop is coming to an end this Friday and last week we were making
collages. I have been enjoying this work a lot, even though in the beginning I
was very uncomfortable.
You know my love of intricate ink work and now I was
slapping pieces of paper on a cardboard and adding all sorts of touches with
water color, pencil, ink and gesso... I first though that I was losing my voice
altogether but somewhere in the process I begun to see the reason to do this.
I
am very shy on using colors, I always
struggle and think for a long time before I dare to pick up any color and very
often ruin the painting by trying to be more courageous with colors. But this
technique totally works for me. I can pick random colors from paper piles and
just without too much thought, glue them to the background and then start my
work from there.
I
made these three and while making the fourth one, I placed my flower diagonally
on the page (this will be a book of flowers when done) and I did not see the
problem quite yet. When the first layer was drying and I kept glancing at it, I
realized that the composition was off and the flower was about to fall off the
page, very disturbing.
At
first I thought that I would toss away the page but since I have only limited
number of pages in this material and size to use for this book (folder), I
decided to try to salvage it.
Thinking carefully I started to add more stems to
it and at the same time, tried to keep the picture clean and uncluttered. When
I thought I was done, I did the gesso work for the background.
But
as you can see, I did not manage to improve the composition. There are elements
that I like, so I am keeping it and it will be part of this folder of flowers.
I
am not yet sure how to name my flower folder...I am thinking of ... Summer that never
came... Flowers that never bloomed... Something along those lines.
Wool
with you,
Lene
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