Wow, have I taken a dive!
Retired and tore a ligament in my knee almost at the same hour!
Talk about slowing down. Im almost at a snails pace right now, with surgery on the horizon.
For a couple of weeks, I was discombobulated and frustrated.
Now Im just discombobulated, with a dose of low mood!
Such plans.....London to see the Alexander Mc Queen exhibition, meeting friends for coffees and lunches and some more useful stuff like helping out at the local food bank. Nada!
(I heard that the Mc Queen exhibition is highly misogynistic ..... anyone out there seen it to confirm/deny?).
Feeling pretty lifeless but got my head around this weeks Kim Klassen prompt, which was about using different containers.
Grabbed some two-lips, (granddaughter speak) and a rather nice, but useless artists box that I bought a while ago as I thought it was a bargain.....it wasnt!
Made the mistake of not spotting the pollen.....
Anyway, week 47 of 52. Im no stiller than I was this time last year, but Im slower!
Here are my results.....how did you get on with it?
caught up with this weeks 'typography' prompt......
my lovely wooden letterpress........
OK this last weeks prompt!
Im behind.......
Some of my feather collection in the sunshine.....
I learned this Turkish map fold from www.greenchairpress.com blog and I love it!
Though there is some controversy about whether its a Turkish or a Hungarian map fold...I'm calling it a Moroccan map fold, because I'm going to be teaching an art retreat in Morocco next April and I'm going to teach participants how to make fabulous papers, tassels and the famous Moroccan map fold!
More of that in a later post......this one is headed off to America........
Kim Klassen prompt this week...pastels for spring.
Bolt of raw silk, glass plates, embroidery threads, an Easter card......
There is sun today.......
Week 42 of the Kim Klassen 'Be Still 52' workshop.....
10 weeks left to go......10 shots..... my photography has improved, I look at ways of taking shots and what might work in different ways.....I've developed a kind of style.....I wish it was linens and French Grey.....its not!
I closed my psychotherapy practice this week after 44 years of working as a social worker and then a therapist....I know!
Im feeling a bit undone sometimes.....quite a bit relieved sometimes......a bit sad sometimes.....feel that I should have spent my time drinking Proseco rather than wondering what hit me!
I finished a couple of projects in the studio and had a big tidy up.....these cards and words were left overs from a 52 card, weekly word set.......
The prompt is about using a crate....I used a wooden box on my old studio stool.
Although its freezing here today the sun was streaming into my studio and I ran to collect some crystals to reflect the light....and then there was a rainbow in my room.
Retirement and rainbows......
So, this weeks prompt on Kim Klassen 'Be Still 52' workshop is 'Make' again this week....long may this last, as I'm always making!
This week more making of 'Little Mouse', of which there will be more coming up to publishing.
Also on my work table are the Morocco themed pieces, some of which have morphed into artists books.
I'm going to be teaching a weeks workshop in Morocco next April, at Maison Anglaise in Taurodant ........a whole year to work on what Im going to teach!
I took these shots on my west facing table this afternoon. It may have been the first day of spring here in north UK.
I walked on a cold, blue, hazy beach this morning, three enormous white swans flew out of the sea mist and honked their way south.
Here are my shots of handpainted papers and folded books.....which give a bit of an optical illusion effect.......
