Il Libro Dell’Arte c 1435: Set yourself to practice drawing, drawing only a little each day, so that you may not come to loose your taste for it, or get tired of it. Do not fail, as you go on to draw something everyday, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile. Cenino Cennini
Halfway is behind me, and what a serendipitous quote to find in a calligrapher's newsletter from Kapiti. I wanted to mark this week someway, but no inspiration came. So with my paint box in front of me and with my left eye I drew and painted it. I am pleased I have two eyes! U has been reworked - after couple of days, it was irretrievable. I ended up painting it black, making a stencil and spraying with a stipple brush. Much happier. V was made by impressing a scriber into a sheet of recyclable plastic, I watched as its memory returned it almost back to flat, hurrying to catch it before it did. W is the nearest I have come to a cadell type of letter. By now I realized that red was going to be the colour of the 26th week. X is X. Y is hanging on some wire, soothing to draw getting twisted up in the weaving. Z was done upside down by mistake – I had masked it off to keep splatters from going over the rest. Done with a coke bottle nib on its last legs. Now for the downhill run to 52 weeks.
Halfway is behind me, and what a serendipitous quote to find in a calligrapher's newsletter from Kapiti. I wanted to mark this week someway, but no inspiration came. So with my paint box in front of me and with my left eye I drew and painted it. I am pleased I have two eyes! U has been reworked - after couple of days, it was irretrievable. I ended up painting it black, making a stencil and spraying with a stipple brush. Much happier. V was made by impressing a scriber into a sheet of recyclable plastic, I watched as its memory returned it almost back to flat, hurrying to catch it before it did. W is the nearest I have come to a cadell type of letter. By now I realized that red was going to be the colour of the 26th week. X is X. Y is hanging on some wire, soothing to draw getting twisted up in the weaving. Z was done upside down by mistake – I had masked it off to keep splatters from going over the rest. Done with a coke bottle nib on its last legs. Now for the downhill run to 52 weeks.
5 comments:
Wow, I have been touring your blog and it is a wealth of inspiration!!!
I just love it...
Thanks for coming over to mine so I know about you...
My daughter lived in Australia for a year and a half but she never got to New Zealand... My spinning wheel came from there though and I love it.. a long time ago my great aunts and uncles (that I never met) moved there... some connections!
I'm surprised you found my blog - thanks for the kind words Gwen. I have been across Canada, from the Rockies to Quebec 1951! I was in Montreal for all of 1983, returning several times since. I have a cousin in Castlegar, Ainsworth but have never met him. Those would be my fragile connections with Canada. I do have a longing for wild places, for the soul.
That is fun to know ... as my partner, John grew up in Montreal and moved to New Brunswick in his teens but in '83 he was living back there again... you could have passed each other on the street...
Coke bottle nib? Funny I was commenting on another use for coke bottles on my blog. (To deter wandering dogs from your garden)
My mistake Robyn, I meant a coke can, actually any aluminium can will do. I think the bottle of water on the lawn to deter dogs is busted, urban folklore or myth by now surely.
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