because a squillion things need doing.
because my eyes have soaked in so much color lately.
because time-lapse is the most fun thing in world.
today I made this:
Tag: layers
hatching plans…
I’m planning to put together a video showing the evolution of these pages.
From their kinda ugly beginnings based on indecision – paint – no, pen – no this colour – no, blobs not spirals, no -wait, ….
through the messy phase (phase!!)
The bits that look more complicated than they really are (maybe)
Over and over in layers
We’ll be able to see the bits that get obliterated along the way & the bits that keep shining through
doubtless we’ll be joined by some of the recurring creatures -like these cut out birds who keep flying back in…
I’m intrigued to watch the process from the outside too – let’s hope for a nice bright day at the weekend and I’ll see what I can conjure up!!
Have a wonderful weekend everylovelyone 😀
Colour bomb 28/52
This week was full of colour.
Dabs and daubs.
Layer on layer on layer on layer on layer…
Eyes and spirals and circles and more…
Building up over and over and over and more and deeper and lusher and more.
That’s the sorta week it was.
Full Moon Everything 10/52
Week 10 began on a full moon. It was a big full week.
Tidal changes of hope and spirit, plans formed and crashed with barely time to get a good grip on them.
It’s the first week I’ve really found difficult to ‘make’ – in terms of the page, but also I guess in terms of making sense of myself as well. Massive overwhelms kept colliding – giddy highs and their plummeting opposites. It was minimal in comparison with the other weeks in terms of word-spew. Just summed it up in a big fat EVERYTHING.
Again with all the eyes peering out at me. Even they are looking a bit more deranged than usual this week.
I can’t tell you how many layers of mismatched colours and unhappy paint coated these pages. It was a nothing’s looking right covered with another no that’s still not it under a coat of wtf really? And then some.
Then the Wednesday came to a close, and that was that, turn over and start again Thursday. Glad to report, this week’s looking more harmonious!
Behind the times 5/52
Last week was such a wild week, full speed ahead into the future. …. Big mental adventures, idea exploration, culmination and loose end tying. And then the massive full moon on Tuesday. Maybe that’s why it’s taken until now to post last night week’s page.
This is where it started out: a splurge of words came tumbling… so many they needed watering down. (Literally)
Edit/note to self: a daemon from a daemon (transformed)
I’d spent the weekend at Jamie Catto’s Transforming Shadows workshop. I’ll post more about that separately once it’s settled more in my head – suffice to say for now, transformation occurred! And it led me back to a bit of face drawing, I haven’t done this in a while…
The theme of the workshop was centred around befriending inner demons. As each day the page evolved the faces developed, coming more into their own. And the big full moon started to dominate.
Something tribal feeling began to show. I’ve had an increasing sense I need to find my Tribe. And the page seems to be reinforcing that. (Gotta love the way art unfolds answers to questions you didn’t know you were asking)
As a marker of time and achievement, the final additions: collaged left over bits of the project I completed this week, oh and a big ole FIFTY. Cos guess how many kilos I lifted at the gym this week? 😉 Gotta love a round number milestone!
12 in 12 to August (ish)
The 12 colors in 12 months project is ticking along in the background… I add little bits and things when I have oddments of the month’s color to hand. So it builds up.
To re-cap here’s where we left off in June, through to the first layers of August
Reds n Ripples
For quite a shiny page, the close up shots don’t do the colors real justice, but I’ve included them to show you the lumpy bumpy textures. I really like the way paper goes into ripples when it gets wet (glue-y), and on this page I’ve highlighted the waves – although not sure it came out in the pics.
So many, many layers
The page a day page/day parallel thing – they day resembles the page, the page resembles the day. Like the chicken and egg thing. Causality and whatnot.
This page went through so many incarnations.
Layer upon layer of indecisive confusion, unguided and unintentional.
Layers added, torn off, reglued on bits.
The page is quite dense and chunky now!
The day was complex, dense and chunky too 😉
new things old things
this was Monday’s page, recycling techniques in a new order, mostly acrylic with a bit of ink spray. Very much into stenciling just now. I’ve ordered some Frisket paper (and waiting on delivery as I type) and giddy with anticipation!!
liberating discoveries
Through the pages of the recent weeks I’ve made some unexpected discoveries:
Everyday I look forward to my bit of time set aside for play, there are similarities, sure, but everyday is individually distinct from it’s neighbours.
The ‘no rules’ rule liberates any planning, expectations, or regrets. By photographing the interim stages they are captured, so when they vanish under another layer of something-totally-else, I still have a memory of them to refer back to.
The properties of one small detail can infuse into other parts of the page. A textured paper inspired these scored lines…
Sometimes new characters drift through my subconscious and out the end of the pen. They reside here, waiting to return in a future idea. Or not. It doesn’t matter!
The adage less is more does not apply. The contents of the page unconsciously reflect the content of the day, and some days are bright, loud, bustling and care not for a controlled, contrived design and color scheme. They are just pieced together with what is at hand.
The possibilities ARE limitless!
