Thank you for all the positive comments about the Mac, I'm getting there. Meanwhile I am loving my new amount of S P A C E and putting time in on my creative sketchbook course.
I am working on collage and adding photographs to pages. Not quite happy with this page yet - may work on it some more.
Meanwhile I am enjoying drawing. Here are two studies I did of onions. The first is done with Inktense watercolour pencils on watercolour paper, the second with the same pencils on cartridge paper.
Below is another double page spread from my sketchbook exploring the making of pickles and chutneys. I have integrated a photograph and the middle jar is a cut-out.
I am still working on the page that will show through the window.
It has surprised me out find how inhibited I still am in working on these pages. The course encourages you to go back and rework pages if you feel it is needed, to supplement one way of working with another. I don't know why my inhibitions and purist ways are so deeply entrenched - but I suppose I was brought up believing that there was 'proper' way of doing something and that had to be mastered. Going back to rework a piece always felt like cheating for some reason - even though I know it isn't. I am looking forward to reworking some of my other projects especially the 'Walled Garden' which started so well and fizzled out through loss of direction. I hope that I shall be able to apply what I have learned here to revitalise some of that book.
Next week I am doing a day's workshop with Gina Ferrari of Fan My Flame fame which I am SO looking forward to. It will be a real treat to use my sewing machine under Gina's guidance. If you have never visited her blog please do so, she is a very talented lady. I have missed working on textiles for a while, but hope everything will come together eventually. However I have to remind myself that I am only doing all of this for fun and no one is going to call me to account.
Thank you all who take time to comment, I love to read what you have to say. It is great to be able to view all of my followers again, the number has been hovering around the 145 number for a while with people coming and going. As it approaches 150 I feel a give-away coming on, so watch this space.
