Crackle glaze also interests me. :)
This painting cracks me up a little bit (ha ha just rereading before publishing and totally missed this pun!); it makes me think of two sardine friends lying on a dock sunbathing.
Which wouldn't be that funny as they'd be dead. But I still like it anyway.
I've been sent the addresses for the postcard swap by ihanna - my little cards are going all over the world! There are addresses in the USA, Singapore, Canada and Italy. She has also set up a Flickr group for the postcards if you'd like to see what other people have come up with.
Well they've been snapped up already! So I made some more.
I am no good at production line working. Usually once I've made one of something, I'm onto the next thing straight away. But these are really enjoyable to make, and have enough variation to keep me from tedium overload.
For now :)
And two wooden boxes that are going to be decorated within an inch of their lives. Bet they can't wait.
And I got very excited about these cards - (they are for playing Lexicon, although the man I bought them from said Canaster, but I wouldn't know the difference frankly), because they have letters on instead of numbers! Loads of collage potential right there.
I also found this oak display cabinet (god, I'm so excited just looking at it!), and a crappy old dictionary with nicely yellowed pages that I won't feel bad about cutting up. I find cutting up books really hard; lots of artists use them willy nilly I know but I get the heebies about some. I could NEVER cut up a bible for example, and I'm not even religious.
There's something very cheering about buying something old and crap for £1 and knowing you can give it a new lease of life and make it into something to love.
This is significant for me on many levels that are too personal and boring to go into here, but as the days speed by I'm getting more and more excited, and more and more panicked!
So much to plan and prepare and so many ends to tie up. So many unknowns. (I love unknowns but they still scare me.)
So every now and then I'm getting this fluttering feeling in my chest and stomach, and then I go and paint something I really like and that makes it worse! (Small pause while she hunts down the Rescue Remedy.)
I'm really pleased with these little squares. They measure about 10x10x4cm on lovely linen canvas and have lots of nice colour and texture. I listened to Tristan Prettyman's album 'Hello' while I was doing them, which is nice and soothing and helped with the internal butterflies. I can particularly recommend Hello, War Out Of Peace, Echo and California Girl.
And then I had an idea. I love lists. Most of the women I know love lists. (I also love text in paintings.) Why not offer personalised versions in the colour of your choice, with a list relevant to you? I'm already starting a list of my favourite words for the next one. You could have lists of the names of your family, countries you've visited, favourite foods, favourite anything! The idea is still gestating, but it's had the thumbs up from my two Special Advisors already, (you know who you are!) so I'm taking that as a green light. :)
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