slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: collage
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Although I am sunk pretty badly, I am not in the hole so I’ve been able to laugh from time to time and do a little bit of art-making. Between Crystal Neubauer and Roxanne Stout’s online classes, I’ve been encouraged to doodle and follow my intuition. I would like to do more but I have…
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In which I can drink coffee in the afternoon, thank you very much. The official word is that I will be teleworking from home at least until May 22. I can still go to my office if I really need to, but my employer’s policy is for me to work at home. Right now I…
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I was up at the usual time this morning because the cats think that they are being starved. Yesterday was a busy work from home day because I’m trying to get as much as done possible “just in case.” My expectation is that next week is going to be very busy for me because of…
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Although, honestly, I am surprised that it is Thursday. Feels like Tuesday. I guess that is because I haven’t had a lot of work to do. I have cooked a lot more, and Diego had major dental surgery on Tuesday so needs feline nursing care. I’ve done it so much by now with Squirt, Jazz,…
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Collage from this weekend and chronicling… I like that word – CHRONICLE. Especially for this pandemic time: “The Coronavirus Chronicles” I think that I am done with the first collage. It’s called “The Choice.” Still working on this next one, called “Illustrated Question Box.” They are related. Then this one is at the beginning stages.…
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I really struggled at the end on who to vote for in the presidential primary. The rest was pretty easy. I’ve been a Sanders Sister for years, even before he ever ran the first time. But I really really really like Elizabeth Warren. I could not decide right up to filling in the ballot, and…
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On Saturday morning I worked on collages again. They are still in progress, but I may be close to finished with this one. It tells a story about choice. I pulled the text out of a Victorian novel called The Brown Eyes of Mary. At first I intended them to be random blocks of text,…
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I piddled around for a long time yesterday and finally decided that I could at least do some backgrounds that I would collage over. This proves to be a great way to get started. These started with old book pages, a 1931 newspaper page from the Oroville, Colorado Mercury-Register and hawthorns. This morning I added…
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The leader of our collage study group, Barbara Livingston, introduced me to a couple of artists that speak strongly to me: Hannalore Baron, and Irwin Kremen. I realize that I am not too fond of the white watercolor paper for the backgrounds and plan to trim these or start with a different color substrate in…
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I am not satisfied with the quality of the photos from my little Canon point and shoot. It took a few tries and some photo editing to get them this good. I am charging up the Canon Rebel now to see how it does, but the last time I used it long ago I think…
slowly she turned 