ephemeral gecko by mixy gregory
making it all up, one bit at a time: mixed media & textile art, musings & metaphors.
Day 2, and so far I’m quite liking 2013.
It’s demanded nothing to arduous from me.
It’s given me time to play with these square things!
They’re a work in progress, I think a little more to be done, then framing.
More pics soons! 😀
If there’s one thing that will motivate me into action, it’s being told that I can’t do something. Even (or especially) when the person doing the telling is me.
In reaction to a phrase in my last post “When space limits me to work on just one project at time…” Uha, really? I went on “… working within the parameters of my living/painting space, I have to exercise a little more self discipline…” I have to what? Says who??
Working on small (8″ x 10″ and smaller … often scraps) scale, there’s really no excuse, there’s no ‘no space’ that can’t be remedied with a small amount of putting stuff away!
Settled with a selection of old doodles on watercolor paper, some bottles of ink and water; and the giddy enthusiasm of new colors, I soon had a small dripping/drying/oozing/dribbling production line set up.
Aided greatly by the way I work – splashy and messy – no harm can come from cross contamination and minor spillages.
In fact, I ended up using the least soggy works to mop up some of the more puddly over waterings
Release from these self imposed boundaries!
Remember the watermarked dyed paper ?
This week I’ve been playing with ink (quite a lot!) So it followed that where water does one thing, ink should do similar but with more colorful results!
I used Pebeo Colorex ink (Chartreuse. My fav color de jour!) they have a real glowing transparency and mouth-wateringly rich color! On pre-scrumpled paper they run deliciously through the landscape of the paper’s surface.
The quilt-making (more on that later) is my current obsession, and the urge to stitch is cropping up everywhere!
“Take care of the spaces, and the lines will take care of themselves”
from Practical knowledge for all by Sir John Hammerton c1950
On seeing with a pencil. Drawing is a means of education, of training hand and eye. It quickens the powers of perception and gives scope to the inventive faculties. It trains the eye to accuracy in observation, and the mind to attention, comparison, reflection and judgement
Remember the dyed printer manual? With a little tearing, folding, stitching and gluing, here’s what’s become of 4 pages in Portuguese……
Thursday’s page focused on utilising bits of the dyed paper through stacking n stitching, to exploring cut and torn shapes
